Program to grab mp3 album art?

Street · 07-22-2004, 12:21 AM

Does anyone have any good recommendations for programs that will automatically download album art for mp3's?

I've tried a couple that didn't work very well (or at all).

ToiletDuck · 07-22-2004, 06:34 AM

I've written an album art grabber in java - I'll repost my album art program in a few hours (atm i'm converting it to use the amazon xml listings, as amazon have changed something and its currently broke)

Defiler · 07-22-2004, 08:42 AM

If you have full albums Tag and Rename is the best IMHO.

ToiletDuck · 07-22-2004, 09:51 AM

http://www.toiletduck.me.uk/artgrabber.html is the URL to my album art grabber. You need the java JRE to run it. Its working again, and a few bugs have been fixed (no longer creates 1x1 images, doesnt search if a file already exists). Its not perfect at the moment, but it works for the majority of files.
The next release (which will be pretty soon) will use a proper XML parser, that should mean its very accurate

Marsupial · 07-22-2004, 11:09 AM

will it work with all info on the ID3 Tag or the filename?

I do not split my MP3s by folders for all albums and the like, I prefer having 'em all in a single folder with significative name (Artist-album-song.mp3)

And would like to have the same name as the song with .jpg for the art. Its to be frodoplayer compatible.

ToiletDuck · 07-22-2004, 11:41 AM

It doesnt do ID3 tags atm

ID3 tags is something i will add though in the future.

At the moment it works it all out by having an Artist folder, inside that an album folder, and then your mp3s or whatever inside that.

Street · 07-22-2004, 10:40 PM

Ok, after a little bit of mistrial I got it to work.

If I specified a single artist directory it didn't work. That confused me at first as I thought it just didn't work at all because it would say:
starting search...\finished search
0 albums found on your system.

I had it do this on me once also: (This appears to be due to ending the directory with a '\')

starting search...
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
at java.lang.String.substring(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.String.substring(Unknown Source)
at ArtGrabber.processDir(ArtGrabber.java:132)
at ArtGrabber.traverse(ArtGrabber.java:276)
at ArtGrabber.searcher(ArtGrabber.java:113)
at ArtGrabber$1.run(ArtGrabber.java:88)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierar chy(Unknown Source)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarch y(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

THANKS!!!!!!

d_sellers1 · 07-23-2004, 12:19 AM

I grab all my album art manually. I do not embed it into the MP3. Each album I have is in its own folder (Artist - Album\). I go to either allmusic.com or amazon.com, search for the album, and copy the pic that they have. I say it as folder.jpg so this way (when in Thumbnail view) the album cover will be show as the folder.

Derek

d_sellers1 · 07-23-2004, 12:20 AM

Here's inside one of the letters:

Derek

Street · 07-23-2004, 12:48 AM

Yeah, Toiletduck's program does automatically what you are doing manually.
All though I have noticed that it does sometimes grab the wrong pictures so it's search isn't perfect. But it's still cool

d_sellers1 · 07-23-2004, 01:11 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Street

Yeah, Toiletduck's program does automatically what you are doing manually.
All though I have noticed that it does sometimes grab the wrong pictures so it's search isn't perfect. But it's still cool

Thought his program wants a folder tree like this Artist\Album. I don't like that. Want to see everything at one time. Had to break it down to this (becuase I've got too much): <First Letter of Artist\Artist - Album (year)\

My manual way doesn't take that much time, plus I ensure that it is the correct picture that I want. Besides, 90% of my albums are done. The other 10% I can't find or they are bootlegs.

EDIT: Okay. Nevermind. Checking it out now. Let's see how it works.

Derek

frodobaggins · 07-23-2004, 01:48 AM

I like this one:

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/show...3ArtDownloader

ToiletDuck · 07-23-2004, 03:36 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Street

Yeah, Toiletduck's program does automatically what you are doing manually.
All though I have noticed that it does sometimes grab the wrong pictures so it's search isn't perfect. But it's still cool

Yup until i get the XML search going properly it'll still make a few silly mistakes as Amazon searches dont seem to be perfectly ordered as i'd like them, still, you get some amusing results sometimes

I'm away this weekend, so next week i'll get that working properly, and i'll also see if i can get it reading from the ID3 tags.

Also, at the moment i'd recommend running the program more than once, as oddly when testing it amazon runs a 503 error occasionally and so misses out albums that it could have actually downloaded.
D_Sellers1, as you said currently my app uses the pathname to work out the artist and album, but give it a go as its simply a string that is searched for so it may work, eitherway report back, so that I can increase the bug list, thanks

Cerztrueheart · 09-28-2005, 06:37 PM

lol - funniest thing about ToiletDuck's program is that if you don't have all of your album's named - like you have Lifehouse - Unknown Album - it gives you the picture for the BOC fire of Unknown origion for your album art - if you're like me and 25% of you're album's are unknown - you have alot of BOC album art!!

baChoMp · 09-28-2005, 06:52 PM

Try this

http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/projects/albumart/

It will download covers from multi sources and embed the image if you wish.