{"id":7,"date":"2007-09-26T02:27:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T07:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/acquiring-and-extracting-album-art\/"},"modified":"2010-06-26T22:51:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T03:51:26","slug":"acquiring-and-extracting-album-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/acquiring-and-extracting-album-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Downloading and extracting album art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unrealvoodoo.org\/hiteck\/projects\/albumart\/\">Album Cover Art Downloader<\/a><br \/>\nI use this to download cover art for CDs I&#8217;ve ripped. It displays a list of covers that match and let&#8217;s you choose the right one. It took a while to find this, as everyone links to the old defunct site which has no link\/redirect to the new site.<\/p>\n<p>Note: I have python2.5 installed as the default on my kubuntu feisty box, and this script won&#8217;t run under 2.5. If you run into this problem, install python2.4-minimal and run the program with &#8220;python2.4 \/usr\/bin\/albumart-qt&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freshmeat.net\/projects\/artworkpl\/\">Artwork.pl<\/a><br \/>\nThis is a simple perl script to extract album art embedded in the id3v2 tags of an mp3 file. It&#8217;s short and easy to customize for your own needs.<\/p>\n<p>I just downloaded some albums off of Amazon&#8217;s MP3 store (using windows xp under kvm &#8211; no linux version of the downloader yet), and they don&#8217;t provide album art in a separate file. Artwork.pl lets me extract the embedded jpeg, and then I run another script to convert it to a small bmp for use with aa rockbox builds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Album Cover Art Downloader I use this to download cover art for CDs I&#8217;ve ripped. It displays a list of covers that match and let&#8217;s you choose the right one. It took a while to find this, as everyone links to the old defunct site which has no link\/redirect to the new site. Note: I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-album-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}