{"id":142,"date":"2008-12-17T00:50:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T00:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2010-11-11T13:01:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T13:01:25","slug":"extracting-album-art-from-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/2008\/12\/17\/extracting-album-art-from-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Extracting album art from iTunes"},"content":{"rendered":"

My music collection is primarily played using SqueezeCenter<\/a>. But, I also have iTunes<\/a> available for syncing to my iPod which I use in the car. One thing iTunes does fairly well is fetching album artwork, and I’ve been looking for a way of getting this in to SqueezeCenter without embedding the images in the MP3 files.<\/p>\n

I found this script<\/a> (there’s a download link towards the bottom) which does this job perfectly. It runs through my library and saves out all the iTunes artwork in a single file per album called cover.jpg. It’s written in javascript, so it’s not at all pretty. You just run it and wait until the dialogue appears saying it’s finished.<\/p>\n

One gotcha I found was that I had to do a complete rescan of SqueezeCenter to make it notice that the album artwork had appeared. It was sporadic before that. Caching maybe?<\/p>\n

That’s one problem I can tick off with a nice easy solution. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

iTunes does a good job of fetching album artwork, but how can I extract them for using in SqueezeCenter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[53,54,55,56,52,25],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","tag-album-art","tag-cover-art","tag-coverjpg","tag-itunes","tag-squeezebox","tag-squeezecenter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t