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How to use your embedded album art from iTunes (the easy way)

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ryan2632:
For all of you who still are using iTunes for syncing your iPod and are afraid of the daunting task of copying all your embedded artwork to use with Rockbox, worry no more.

This is the quickest and easiest way i have found to get this done:
EXTRACTING AND RESIZING THE ART
1) download MediaMonkey
2) grab the Album Art Tagger Script from here. (about 1/3 way down the page)
3) install both, and launch the app
4) click on your iPod in the left pane, and let the song list load. select all (or whichever you want) and go to Tools -> Scripts -> Album Art Tagger
5) select option 4 "Extract artwork and resize external image"
6) in the text box below type in "D:\art\" replace 'D:\art\' with wherever you want it to extract the images. make sure you have created the folder first.
7) click go and let it do it's work. after it scans, it will popup a confirmation dialogue. press OK, and it will pull all the art and resize it into that folder.

CONVERTING FROM JPG TO BMP
I normally use Irfanview for my batch conversions, but it was giving me a lot of trouble with this many jpegs. So, i found a free program called Faststone Photo Resizer
1) download from here and install
2) under the 'Conversion' tab, Navigate to the folder with your extracted JPG's and press Add All
3) Set the output format to BMP and click Options. Make sure it is still at 24 bit
4) Choose your output folder
5) Press Start and sit back.

LASTLY......
1) Move all the BMP's into IPODDRIVE:\iPod_Control\Music
2) Make sure you are running the latest version of the Album Art + BMP Resize Patch


Hope you all find this helpful.

scorche:
The forums are not the place to put information like you have.  If it really needs to be said, use the wiki.  That is what the wiki is for anyway.

ryan2632:
my bad, sorry for trying be helpful.....

scorche:
I realize you are trying to be helpful, but I am just saying that forums are not well suited to this kind of thing.  This thread will be onto the next page tomorrow or the next day.  As there are very few of us that read every single post (people looking for this type of information will most definitely not and will only come when looking for help), this will not get read that much.

I am not trying to dissuade you from helping people or scold you for doing so.  Like I said...If you feel that it really needs to be put out there, use the wiki.  Pages on the wiki do not "disappear over time" like forum topics do.

NicolasP:
I added this procedure to the album art wiki page : see here.
Please correct it if you know a better way :)

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