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Album Cover Art Downloader and other art fetchers

Most of these album art fetching apps really suck.  The only one I ever liked was one called Album Cover Art Downloader which is found here:  http://www.unrealvoodoo.org/hiteck/projects/albumart/

Its a very simple interface, customize where it needs to be, automatic downloads are 110% accurate, and most importantly it runs on Linux as well as Windows.  What more can you ask for?  (My mp3s are hosted on a Linux machine so its much faster to run the app locally than from a networked Windows machine.)

The problem is that the app is no longer being developed.  The last release was from June 2005 and the author doesn't reply to emails about this project.  Thankfully he provides the source code on his website.  Someone should pick up where this guy left off and update this.  Its a little buggy, for example when you tell it to hide albums with art it doesn't.  I'm sure the code could be optimized as it runs really slow.  A few minor annoyances don't discourage me from using this 3 year old app though.

Source code: http://muksuluuri.ath.cx/~skyostil/project...rt-1.6.1.tar.gz

Album Cover Art Downloader and other art fetchers

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Most of these album art fetching apps really suck.  The only one I ever liked was one called Album Cover Art Downloader which is found here:  http://www.unrealvoodoo.org/hiteck/projects/albumart/

Its a very simple interface, customize where it needs to be, automatic downloads are 110% accurate, and most importantly it runs on Linux as well as Windows.  What more can you ask for?  (My mp3s are hosted on a Linux machine so its much faster to run the app locally than from a networked Windows machine.)

The problem is that the app is no longer being developed.  The last release was from June 2005 and the author doesn't reply to emails about this project.  Thankfully he provides the source code on his website.  Someone should pick up where this guy left off and update this.  Its a little buggy, for example when you tell it to hide albums with art it doesn't.  I'm sure the code could be optimized as it runs really slow.  A few minor annoyances don't discourage me from using this 3 year old app though.


You are saying this *after* seeing Album Art Downloader XUI?

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=57392