Need better album art. How?

[trinkner]

I have about 7,000 tracks ripped to mp3, FLAC, and Apple Lossless. Many of my tracks have embedded album art, and some have folder.jpg album art in their folders.

I'm using the Touch, and a lot of the album art looks really crumby because, I think, the touch is using the tiny 5kb "folder.jpg" files to display.

Is there an easy batch program that will use Internet sources to automatically replace my folder.jpg files with much larger files?

I've looked into dbPowerAmp, but that only has the ability to find good album art during the ripping process, not for files that are already ripped.

Thanks

[garym]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/

[trinkner]

This Album Art Downloader looks like a cool program. I used it to download a few images.

Ideally, I'd like a script that will download 500x500 images (when available) for all the albums in a directory, not just one at a time.

Anybody know if such a script exists? I did a quick Google search and didn't find one.

Thanks

[trinkner]

The album art that displays in my iTunes is of quite good quality with decent file sizes. The problem was that my folder.jpg artwork was minuscule in comparison.

My solution:

1. Use Window's command prompt to delete every .jpg file in your music collection, running recursively through your subfolders with the command

del *.jpg /s

Be sure you run this command from the top folder of your music collection, not the top folder of your hard drive!

2. Use iTunes Artwork Converter ($15) to take all the artwork from wherever iTunes mysteriously hides your artwork and create a Folder.jpg in each of your albums' folders. Available at http://www.tromer.name/iTunesArtworkConverter/

This took me about 5 minutes to do for about 700 albums. Cost $15. Best $15 I've spent in some while.

It still doesn't address the issue of trying to find perfect 500x500 artwork as recommended by the forum poster Jean elsewhere on this forum, but it should help my Touch display significantly nicer images than before. Once I get around to syncing my laptop's music collection with my USB drive for tinySB to see it, I'll let you know how it went.

Richard

[iPhone]

Have you checked out Bliss or other organizers?

Amazon can be a source of album art but the downside is its all manual. One has to find the Album on Amazon, then select which Image to use, then download and save it to the directory of the Album (preferably as a JPEG) as folder.jpg

[tv69]

Bliss looks like it could be the ticket to easy artwork downloading for large collections. Thanks for the tip iPhone. Have you used it much and what are your own impressions?

Thanks

TV

[mbg]

The album art that displays in my iTunes is of quite good quality with decent file sizes. The problem was that my folder.jpg artwork was minuscule in comparison.

My solution:

1. Use Window's command prompt to delete every .jpg file in your music collection, running recursively through your subfolders with the command

del *.jpg /s

Be sure you run this command from the top folder of your music collection, not the top folder of your hard drive!

You may also have to do a recursive unsetting of system and hidden attributes on *.jpg if you use Windows Media Player. Either the current or past versions used to hide these files and a regular delete wouldn't see them. Might as well do read-only, too...

i.e. attrib -r -h -s *.jpg /s

...from the top music folder.