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- mattcampbell, on 10/10/2007, -6/+73It's nice if you have a few albums, but not hundreds.
- Tyr7BE, on 11/09/2007, -2/+66For a serious collector, it's nice regardless of how many albums you have.
- _skin_, on 10/10/2007, -3/+66I am going to rasterbate the hell out of these.
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ - HerrEisenheim, on 10/10/2007, -6/+60DMCA takedown request in 5...4...3...
- Phearce, on 10/10/2007, -3/+52PHP or it didn't happen.
- wattznext, on 10/10/2007, -1/+41Yes! This makes my day. No more searching amazon.com or google.com for crappy low res 200x200 images. Woohoo!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+36The iTunes store doesn't sell Radiohead...
- aaronm67, on 10/10/2007, -0/+33EDIT:
Something similar to this
#!/usr/bin/perl
use MP3::Tag;
foreach $file(@dir)
{
$mp3 = MP3::Tag->new($file);
# get tag information
$mp3->get_tags();
# check to see if an ID3v1 tag exists
$artist = $mp3->{ID3v2}->artist
$album = $mp3->{ID3v2}->album
$art = get("http://www.thejosher.net/iTunes/index.php?artist=$artist&album=$album");
$mp3 -> {ID3v2}->add_frame("APIC", chr(0x0), "image/jpeg", chr(0x0), "Cover Image", $art);
$mp3->close();
} - Darrelc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33Quality, I love getting artwork for my albums. Nice to be able to get it in a decent res rather than 180x180. Hope someones makes a script to automate it :D
- bradallen18, on 10/10/2007, -2/+30I don't know what you're talking about, but im going to spend the afternoon swapping album covers.
- shunpike, on 10/10/2007, -2/+29i can't seem to get them in anything near 1425x1425 anyone manged it?
- HerrEisenheim, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19Nope. iTunes doesn't have it They generally only have artwork for what they sell.
- aliguana, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18yeah, and it's pointless if all you use is an iPod, since iTunes swaps them out for tiny versions. BUT, if you're running coverflow/AppleTV/Frontrow on a BIG tv, the bigger the album art the better.
Kind of like making Flac/Apple Lossless copies of your music, you can always resize it later. Only resizing up is crap, so best to have the largest you can to start with - timusca, on 10/10/2007, -5/+20This is a great service for desktop wallpapers...
- geminitojanus, on 10/10/2007, -4/+19Oh come on, it wouldn't be hard at all to write a 10 line shell script to loop through an input file and download the album art. Then all you'd need is a few hours/days/weeks to write the file based on all of your albums (or if it's all digital, write a script again.. hah).
- Aleman360, on 10/10/2007, -5/+19iTunes does this automatically now, doesn't it?
- techfish, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13You have to enter both the artist and the album name.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12iTunes can download album artwork automatically, however it doesn't embed the artwork into your music files. Using this tool you can download the album artwork and manually embed it into your music files.
- thosemoose, on 04/17/2008, -2/+14DAMN YOU DIGG and putting this source on blast.Thought I could keep this one a secret. It's gonna be down in a week tops.
- aliguana, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12I run coverflow fullscreen on a 21" monitor, and 600x600 is barely enough.
- staan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10It should be noted that the artwork is supplied by the same people who supply the music, and the quality is therefore highly variable. For example, Devo’s “Freedom of Choice” cover art is only 320x230, as well as being noisy, dark, and full of JPEG artifacts.
- whatchokesbegin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Too bad most of the covers I looked for aren't anywhere near that resolution.
- thesportoflife, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10now to use this quickly before the site goes down...
- heaintheavy, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14Um, I've looked up several albums and artists and it hasn't found a single one...
- wattznext, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Much like DEVO's music
- timusca, on 10/10/2007, -9/+18You might want to see a therapist about that... oh, RASterbate. Sorry.
- geminitojanus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Rhythmbox and Amarok can already do it with other services (like Amazon), you could probably adapt the existing code to use this site (but there's no telling how long this hack will work).
- exomni, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Typed in about five artists in a row, and NONE of them had any artwork.
Yeah... this thing fails, basically the only album artwork you can get is the popular stuff that you can find in two seconds on Wiki or Google images. - Jibberwalk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8All my artwork ranges between 1000px and 2000px (from http://cdcovers.cc ) ... and I don't have any lag at all when scrolling through them (even when just holding the key to watch it make pretty time super fast) -- on a Windows machine, no less.
- zeppo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8This isn't fark you can say "penis" ya know.
- ut2k4king, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7The industry is killing the industry by itself.
- jenel, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9DENIED!
- b0rg, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Didn't realize the ones you get from apple are so big. Now I understand why my machine whimpers a little when I scroll through the full-screen cover view.
- devindotcom, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10christ, what an *****
I guess I'm a hipster if I DON'T use the hip new thing now. I actually don't like iTunes anyway, and even if I did I wouldn't use coverflow. So you and your Matchbox 20 CD collection can eat a dick! - chedabob, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7It's a shame that for certain albums, the download key decryption doesn't work properly, so you can't get the large art (Celldweller, by Celldweller is one of them).
- HerrSchnuff, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7You could try http://www.discogs.com/, they have a lot
- aaronm67, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7It probably wouldn't be hard at all using perl using MP3::Tag
- imkrazy182, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8now if there was only someway to auto grab all these instead of iTunes'
- aliguana, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6coverflow lags with 300x300 images on Windows. Does on mine anyhow (unless you go fullscreen)
- joshpowell, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5In addition to the very good point d1g1 brought up...
iTunes by default only gets 600x600. This has a chance of getting something larger. Good for printing, etc.
Lastly, not everybody wants to use iTunes as a media player :) - CoJeff, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I tried to find a bunch of albums but not one came up. I have far too many live music shows and those will hardly ever appear on that site. I did however create 300+ pieces of art on my own for my itunes to fill in the album art gaps. Urgh I still have many to create.
- bbardlbradd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I love rasterbating...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/138/340112403_34eef91e56_o.jpg - MarkOfTheDead, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It's like a parallel universe....
- montiff, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8The requested URL /Music/y2003/m3/d8/h7/s01.ryatfprz.jpg was not found on this server.
Woohooo ! - Fincher, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I don't know how you could possibly fail at this but I just searched for an album of Metallica's and it was there.
- navitatl, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6It has all of those artists. It's your musical taste that fails.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Haha, As I Lay Dying.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I had a hard time finding any Beatles covers...(sarcasm)
- iancorey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Of course, no Beatles.
- aliguana, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4No Beatles in the iTMS, why would they hold the coverart?
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