Exporting covers

[Colin Guthrie]

Art Alexion wrote:
> On Monday 08 January 2007 14:04, Ljubomir Simin wrote:
>> On Monday 08 January 2007 19:24, Art Alexion wrote:
>>> I am trying to catalog my music with tellico.  I would like to link to
>>> the covers.  Not a problem with local custom cover graphics, but I can't
>>> figure out a way to access the covers downloaded from Amazon.  The
>>> downloaded jpegs seem to be randomly numbered and only associated with an
>>> album via the database.  Is there a way to export these covers to an
>>> identifiable local file that I can use with tellico?
>> "dcop amarok player coverImage" returns path to currently played song. You
>> can use it in a script. AFAIK "random numbers" are MD5 hashes of the artist
>> and album name.
> 
> That's helpful, thanks.

There are also several scripts written already that will take the cover
art from Amazon and put it directly into the folder containing the album
as a "folder.png" file or similar. Just hunt around and you'll find them.

Col.