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killer_735 · Apr 15, 2004, 12:03 PM

Fetchart

Checks amazon for artwork based on ID3 tags. Searches whatever list you have active, so I'd recommend making a small playlist to test it on..your whole library would probably take overnight, and amazon might get upset at being bombarded by activity from a single IP. That said, glad someone finally came up with a tool to to this.

threestain · Apr 15, 2004, 01:39 PM

cool, cheers!

am running it for probably the next few hours, but hey will be worth it!

Also where is the artwork stored?

mdc · Apr 15, 2004, 01:44 PM

in the file as far as i know

bmedina · Apr 15, 2004, 01:45 PM

Originally posted by threestain:
cool, cheers!

am running it for probably the next few hours, but hey will be worth it!

Also where is the artwork stored?

Art is stored in the file itself. So every file in the album will increase in size by the file size of the image. Sucks for iPod users.

threestain · Apr 15, 2004, 02:07 PM

ah that does indeed suck - over 2000 songs, 0.1Mb = 200Mb. Bum.

Oh well nice idea for a bit!

::maroma:: · Apr 15, 2004, 03:58 PM

Originally posted by bmedina:
Art is stored in the file itself. So every file in the album will increase in size by the file size of the image. Sucks for iPod users.

<Steve_J> Get a bigger iPod! </Steve_J>

Diggory Laycock · Apr 15, 2004, 06:54 PM

I use http://sofa.ouvaton.org/

It does the artwork and other things - very nice app.

brapper · Apr 15, 2004, 11:27 PM

fetch art sure does download cover art.
alas even with the proper artist/song/album, only about 50% success for the right art.
Better than 0% tho, and it encourages me to get the other half instead of leaving it blank.

brutal · Apr 16, 2004, 03:59 AM

fetchart sure is great!

any other plugins I should get?

WJMoore · Apr 16, 2004, 05:11 AM

Originally posted by brutal:
any other plugins I should get?

Yeah, has anyone ever heard of a gapless playback plugin for iTunes?

mitchell_pgh · Apr 16, 2004, 07:17 AM

FYI, The average MP3 is around 3MB. or 3000KB. The average CD image size is 10KB - 50KB

So it only adds about 1% to 2% to the actual size of the MP3.

It does not suck for iPod people unless it's completely maxed out.

For the sake of argument, say you could fit 10,000 MP3s on your iPod (which most can't) and every album cover was 50KB (which a VERY large majority aren't even in that ballpark) You would be adding around 500MB to a 40GB drive. You would be adding 12% to your file size (and that's the absolute worst case scenario I could come up with)

lenox · Apr 16, 2004, 11:27 AM

I guess it wouldn't be so bad if the iPod could display these album covers...

WJMoore · Apr 17, 2004, 12:49 AM

Originally posted by lenox:
I guess it wouldn't be so bad if the iPod could display these album covers...

Give it time. I think we will see this added to the iPod Linux port some time in the future. It can already display images, just another step to make it display images from the ID3 tag.

yukon · Apr 17, 2004, 01:22 AM

either ogg vorbis or just the players allow for artwork to be in the same album folder, which is something I'd like to see in iTunes (submitted feedback, no worries). I currently use my own applescripts to grab artwork and ID3 tags from freedb, allmusic.com, walmart, and CDDB, but they're all very manual.

I've been looking for an automatic solution (7000 songs is a lot of work), but incorrect artwork is unacceptable. the people seeing mistakes, do you have the (correct) album tag in the problem MP3s?

What I really need is a program that will search freedb results for track year and duration info for MP3s with the album tag set.....more metadata for iTunes playlists, and more sorting out incomplete songs.

yukon · Apr 17, 2004, 11:31 PM

sorry to reply to my last post, but that Sofa app is really great. it's pretty buggy, settings like to revert, artwork is sometimes not put into iTunes....otherwise, some cool effects and it's useful. I'm sorry it's not OSS, I'd look into fixing these problems.

ThisGuy · Apr 18, 2004, 12:39 AM

Originally posted by yukon:
What I really need is a program that will search freedb results for track year ...

i was just wanting this today. i made a dynamic playlist with every song i have that does not have a year attached to it and i was surprised just how big it was. i would also like it if greatest hits collections could retrieve the correct year for each song.

Diggory Laycock · Apr 18, 2004, 05:45 AM

Originally posted by yukon:
sorry to reply to my last post, but that Sofa app is really great. it's pretty buggy, settings like to revert, artwork is sometimes not put into iTunes...

I think it only adds the artwork into itunes if you leave the track playing for more than a certain amount of seconds (5 or so).

ThisGuy · Apr 18, 2004, 11:39 AM

do any of you know if there are any apps like Fetch Art and iEatBrainz available for a PC user using iTunes?