AndrewFG;346750 Wrote: > As various people have discovered, the SqueezeCenter scanner is not able > to extract album cover art that has been downloaded from Apple iTunes > store. This is because such downloaded art is stored by iTunes in a > proprietary format that the scanner cannot interpret. > > In order to overcome this problem, I created a small Windows > application that automates iTunes (via its COM automation interfaces) > to copy the downloaded artwork from its proprietary folder and save it > (i.e. embed it) directly within the respective MP4 (M4A) files > themselves. > > Since the latter embedded art is encoded in a non proprieatary way > (i.e. according to the MPEG-4 standard), this tool enables the > SqueezeCenter scanner to find and extract the respective artwork images > from the music files in the normal way. > > You can download it here: http://www.whitebear.ch/music#iTunesArtFixer > (look for iTunesArtFixer) > > Also my M4A Windows Explorer shell extension is here: > http://www.whitebear.ch/music > > The iTunesArtFixer application requires iTunes to be installed on your > PC, and it runs on Windows Vista and XP.
Andrew. This sounds a great bit of software, does it also extract the album art for uploaded .mp3 files that itunes has located & stored the artwork for in it's proprietary folder? If so you have then created an extremely welcome application that will be worth a few £/$'s to you................... Simon -- simonjedrake QNAP TS-109 Pro (version 2.1.1 build 0925T) Seagate Barracuda ES 750GB SSOTS 3.0 v 15. SC7 7.2 - 22900 2 x wireless SB3, 1 x wireless SB2, & 1 x SB Controller & an old Qnap TS-101 (version 2.3.0 build 0618T) for secondary backup. Panasonic BL-C30 Wireless Camera ------------------------------------------------------------------------ simonjedrake's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4910 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53413
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