I'm actually writing my own cover art downloader as a bit of an experiment with the Amazon and Yahoo web services and one thing I have found is that it's very difficult thing to do automatically.
This is especially true when you're relying on the naming of the directory or the contents of the TAGs to determine the album and artist name. Spelling can often differ to that used on Amazon for example and things like punctuation, european characters etc. can throw it way off. The other thing to consider is that the quality of the images returned can be pretty poor. I often find that Amazon can return 15+ images for a search and the best match can only be chosen manually. What I've ended up doing is displaying all the alternatives within my app and supplementing this with a good old Google Image search and sometimes a discogs.com search if the images thrown up by Amazon/Yahoo aren't any good. -- dSw ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dSw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=362 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26996 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
