Re: [Gtkpod-devel] covert art retrieval

[Todd Z. <tm...@po...>]

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Raffael Himmelreich wrote:
> am I missing an important point or is the only solution for having
> fancy album pictures on the iPod is providing folder.jpgs?
>
> And if the latter, is there a particular reason for not downloading
> them from Amazon for instance?

It's the latter, with the alternate method that Jorg pointed out.  One
tool that's worked reasonably well for me is Album Cover Art
Downloader[1].  It's written in python using the QT toolkit.  With the
libgpod python bindings, I imagine you could whip something up to call
the same methods that albumart uses to grab images.  I've thought
about doing that but so far haven't gotten around to trying it.

Another possibility for cover art would be extending gtkpod's use of
libid3tag to find embedded cover art (in the APIC tag) and using that.
I've not looked at all to see if libid3tag supports APIC or not.

It'd definitely be cool if someone with an afternoon and some decent
coding skills decided this was something they wanted to have.  I'd buy
a beer for that someone. :-)

[1] http://kempele.fi/~skyostil/projects/albumart/

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