A tool to mass-convert embedded album art to cover.bmp's automatically?

[JasonNovak]

I have a large collection of MP3s and WMAs all with embedded album art that need to have cover.bmp files generated for.  All the tools I've come across for this seem to use amazon or other sites to select the album art, but I already have all the art.  Is there a tool that I can point to my music folder, and have it scan all my music and automatically read the embedded album art and spit out the proper BMP files?

[Chronon]

There's a tutorial that gives one way to do this at the end of the AlbumArt page.  Here: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/AlbumArt#How_to_Use_Embedded_iTunes_Cover

[JasonNovak]

Thanks, I was on that page but must have passed it by when I saw iPod (I have an e280). I wanted the art to be in each folder which I don't think would be easy using that tutrial, so write a little .net that converts images to bitmaps, and then modified the Album Art Tagger script to call it each time it wrote and image to generate a bitmap.

[Chronon]

Are you saying you created such a tool?  It would be nice to list it on the AlbumArt page.

[rangi_chip]

MP3TAG will extract all your embedded albumart to a specific location that you can define.
Example:
%artist%/[%year%] %album%/ - or whatever your filetree structure is.
A must have program for tagging.

I'm not sure if it can convert your albumart to .bmp format, but it can definitely extract them in which ever format they were originally embedded as.

If they are not .bmp format, once extracted you could use a mass converter, I suggest FastStone Photo Resizer. It's free and very easy to use. I also believe this keeps the filetree structure

Hope this helps.

[Chronon]

Oh yes.  I actually use MP3Tag, but not for this purpose.  Thanks for the reminder!

[rangi_chip]

Don't mention.

I don't know what version you are using, but it is always being updated with new features. You can find the very lastest here http://www.anytag.de/forums/index.php?showtopic=57

[JasonNovak]

It seems like there are several good programs to extract art and resize them, but not one that converts it to a bitmap. I may not have played around with faststone enough ... I see it can do multiple folders, although various media players I've used have dumped their own images into the album folders that don't really need to be made into bitmaps.

The nice thing about using the modified Album Art Tagger is it extracts the album art and creates a bitmap all in one program.  It's not a standalone app, I wrote a simple jpg/png to bitmap command line utility and modified the Tagger script to call it every time it extracts an image to create a bitmap and remove the jpg/png. I passed along my code to the author of the script, maybe he'll implement in into the official release.

[bzavala]

IrfanView can convert to/from different formats including BMP and JPG.  I've used it to Mass/batch convert all album arts to different sizes and formats.

Ben

[vcardenas]

Here is a tool made by me that can mass-convert embedded album art to bmp's.

Someone with write access can list it in the wiki... i ask for write permission on IRC some time ago but didn't receive any response.

http://vcardenasblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/album-art-extracter-for-rockbox.html

[Chronon]

Tell me your wikiname and I can give you write permission.

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Edit: I found your wikiname and have given you write permission.

[vcardenas]

Thanks Chronon!... i just put it in the AlbumArt wiki page.

[Chronon]

Cool.  Thanks for your contribution!