Exporting covers

Rich rich at hq.vsaa.lv
Tue Jan 9 06:49:59 UTC 2007


Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 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.

copycover took saved amazon pictures and placed them with the files - 
but it has stopped working for me since the introduction of dynamic 
collection, and i haven't seen a fixed version.

> Col.
-- 
  Rich



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