{"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":"<p>My music collection is primarily played using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slimdevices.com\/pi_features.html\">SqueezeCenter<\/a>. But, I also have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\">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&#8217;ve been looking for a way of getting this in to SqueezeCenter without embedding the images in the MP3 files.<\/p>\n<p>I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mail-archive.com\/discuss@lists.slimdevices.com\/msg87239.html\">this script<\/a> (there&#8217;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&#8217;s written in javascript, so it&#8217;s not at all pretty. You just run it and wait until the dialogue appears saying it&#8217;s finished.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>That&#8217;s one problem I can tick off with a nice easy solution. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}