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

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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.

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