thejosher.net — Seems like Apple has figured out a way to block us from downloading their album art using various methods. When you try to access the jpg file off of their servers, you now get a 403: You are not authorized to view this page message.
May 24, 2006 View in Crawl 4
aplardiMay 24, 2006
I use iArt as well, but I always ued it with the iTunes High Res plugin, I wonder if it still works.... doubt it.
dkordikMay 24, 2006
Open up a packet sniffer like Ethereal (www.ethereal.com) and set it to capture packets when you are making the iTMS purchase. After the purchase/download are complete, stop the packet capture and look for a large group of TCP packets. In ethereal they will be highlighted in green, and you can right click on one of them and select "Follow TCP Stream". If you have chosen the right TCP packets, the following should appear at the top of the window that pops up:GET /r10/Music/a9/71/6c/mzi.sgmgosnz.600x600-100.jpg?downloadKey=1149061961_a064cdd8da355ac899c0296efe255cb0 HTTP/1.1User-Agent: iTunes/6.0.4 (Windows; N)Accept-Encoding: gzip, x-aes-cbcHost: a1.phobos.apple.com
vahaMay 24, 2006
I found my downloadKey=1149107800_56a1a26ef02109f3424d18f0550e59d8 Hope that would help anybody that is trying to figure this out.
diehard2k5May 25, 2006Submitter
I don't know about you, but to me, the Coveralia scans look kind of grainy.
habemusMay 27, 2006
So just turn on your pop-up blocker. Sheesh.
nabilanwarMay 30, 2006
umm, the only reason there was a script for the itunes store is because it wasnt normally accessible. Don't know what ur talkin about, since u can just find the album and get the image through search.
diehard2k5Jun 1, 2006Submitter
Now how are we going to do this if we got the music illeg.... just kidding. =)
jonppaaJul 1, 2006
well, since there seems to be no solution for downloading album art from iTMS I recommend people to build database where everyone who has downloaded songs from iTunes can upload cover art. I would with great pleasure be in the swim when constructing this site. I think it it wouldn't very hard to do and if we get enough people along with this it would be easy to build pwn database. Anyone interested?
montiffJul 9, 2006
Any updates on this .... ?
newaffectAug 11, 2006
solution: try www.buy.comYou will be satisfied. 95%
ghettocashDec 1, 2006
Yup, i'm using buy.com for now. You are right the quality is very good. Maybe they are using the iTunes music store themselves. hahaahahahha.