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

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DeanMurray:
This is an amarok script that might work for you.  I haven't tried it.

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/amaroK-Scripts/Rockbox-Cover-Generator-11517.shtml#

ryran:

--- Quote from: Stannerz on July 02, 2007, 04:15:51 PM ---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.....

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If understand you, you're asking about querying Apple for covers without using iTunes.
For a while, there were third party tools that were capable of this, but as of ~ October 2006 (if I remember correctly), this is no longer possible--due of course to Apple using a form of encryption in concert with iTunes 7 that has yet to be .. well, cracked. As far as I know, there hasn't been a new tool released to deal with this yet and the only way to get at Apple's high quality covers is to download them from iTunes 7.

There are other options besides Apple's database however.
I successfully use http://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art to query multiple album art websites and AlbumArtDownloader XUI (a mod of the previous project) looks promising.

mattandme:
why dont you want to use itunes 7? thats what i did, and it works fine...

ryran:
Since he said he's a linux user, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're asking me that for some reason. So why not... here's my answer.
As an all-in-one solution for music management, I respect the awesome accomplishment that is iTunes 7. I absolutely love the way album art is dealt with in iTunes. Not being an apple firmware user however means that isn't really of much use to me. And there's no way in heck you could force me to use iTunes for transferring music to my iPod what with it's utterly retarded filetree obfuscation-crap.

blueskip:
So what is the proper method to tell someone their wikki is incorrect?  You cannot always put the bitmaps in the base folder.   It doesn't work.  I have some that I have manually gone through and added and they work just fine but the album art does not work with the Rockflow theme if the song is two subfolders down from the art.  

I just found that the hard way.  I extracted, converted and loaded 3500 bitmaps into that directory only to find it doesn't work.  I've tried every automated method I can come up with to extract album art into the specific folder including BUYING "xport".  I'm to the point of giving up if I have to load ~1500 images by hand into each folder.  

Folder structer:

Music>>artist>>album>>mp3

Any clues how to make this work from anyone?  

ALL of my album art was/is emedded.  You guys don't realize how bad some people need embedded support.   I don't have itunes file structure anymore so I can't go back to that without even more hassle.  I spent the better part of a month of free time EMBEDDING the files so I would always have the album art with me.  I didn't use Rockbox at that time.  

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