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I've starting getting friendly with Album Art Downloader (the same one recommended by a few others in this thread). I find the interface a bit quirky, but overall its a fantastic tool. I've been using that to grab images quickly, and ImageMagick to batch-resize them down to 500x500 (my standardized sound).
Before I post any sort of guide / tips about this stuff, I was curious if any of you folks have any tips / tricks about Album Art Downloader...
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2009-11-15, 20:02
(This post was last modified: 2009-11-15, 20:05 by stokedfish.)
I have no idea why people need apps like album art downloader. I've got more than 800 albums, everything with embedded arts, and all I've ever used is google images and easytag...
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yeah it may not be worth the effort unless you're planning on using XBMC to browse / show off your music library. I only have about 80GB of my 230 GB collection done, but its sooooo sexy in XBMC. For iTunes shouldn't it just be a one-time re-scan of your library?
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yes Fanart = 16:9 aspect ratio large resolution (720P or 1080P) images generally used as background art (though some media views display them in different ways).
And it looks like you solved your own issue (since your XML wasn't valid due to missing tags), so that makes things a bit easier I guess.
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(This post was last modified: 2010-01-04, 05:24 by AlexNC.)
I ended up letting XBMC download all my Artist and Fanart images for my music. I already had all my tracks embedded with high quality Album art, so I skipped those. I am happy with the images XBMC downloaded, but I now see that they are located in some encrypted XBMC folder/file structure. I would like to export these images and have them saved under my Artist folder as the default 'folder.jpg' and 'fanart.jpg' to future proof it for later installations.
Any suggestions on exporting these images, or am I stuck manually finding them on the internet?
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ok... downloaded one image (Metallica) I see it in my music settings it is called Metallica.jpg. I have a folder Death Magnetic (Metallica Album)... so; how do I now move the jpeg file to the album file? Hopefully this makes sense.
Thxs