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

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exceloskarplus11:
ahhh sorry for uploading the image so big

and yea vista is awsome lol

but can anyone answer my question?

its just that when i press ok it only sends ONE image to the folder i sent it to. even when i check all the images on the popup box

bonebox:
You may have figured it out by now, but using "C:\art" will not work by itself.  The reason that is happening to you is because the batch script is naming every single JPG with the same name, so it's seeing them all as duplicates.  Use this instead:  

C:\art\<album>

Also just a general tip for all; if you use the FastStone photo resizer, make sure you uncheck the "Rename" option (mine was checked by default) otherwise it will change the name of the files when you convert and it won't work when you copy the BMPs to your iPOD.  It's also a good idea to make the output folder a different folder than the one you extracted your JPGs to, so it's easier to select all BMPs when you're copying to your iPOD.  That, or you can just set "IPODDRIVE:\iPod_Control\Music" as your output folder.

Hopefully someone can add these updates to the wiki page.

Stannerz:
This only extracts the art from the id3 tag... not actually from the ipod artwork thumbs.... anyone know of a way to do that?

ryran:
Yes.
This following method should provide you with the jpegs (not sure about pngs) from your iTunes 7+ database, but you're gonna have to match 'em with the right files/directories when you're done.

Download jpegextractor from this page. Extract it to a folder on your desktop.

Open your OS' finding app--if in XP you can hold down the Winkey and press F. You want to search your local drive for all files that end in itc, so.. *.itc is what you should enter. (Assuming you use iTunes 7+ these are the encrypted album artwork files and will be stored in a nested structure in your iTunes music folder.) Copy everything you find to the jpegextractor folder you made on your desktop.

Open a command window and navigate to said folder. Enter "java jpegextractor -p cover -d 3 *.itc" without the quotes and press enter. The -p switch stands for prefix, so all of the output files will start with "cover". The -d switch is for digits--it will pad the digits at the end to 3 places (ie 001, 002, etc).
Enjoy.

Stannerz:
Ahh great for if you use itunes exactly...i dont.. im a Linux user.. sorry i know.. i meant purely extract the information from the ipod thumbnail database.. i use amarok so twould be great but.....

this might be wandering off subject thread but hey....

Many thanks for help provided already
SZ

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