View Full Version : Albumart.org - good place to get DVD/CD covers
this looks like it may be a good place to get album covers. i'm not sure how to integrate it but i'm thinking it would be cool to have xbmc auto-download (and bring up the siaplay and let you choose the cover you want) when entering new movies and cds into the database.
http://albumart.org/
thoughts?
PsyberOne
2006-02-21, 04:12
i was just looking at the site, it looks like they just scrape the images from amazon, and it looks like a simple command to access the search. cool stuff, you would have to have a way to select is as the default way to get the covers since it pulls up multiple covers per album, not good for the casual user. (advanced search maybe?)
an automatic album art download function in xbmc would be awesome.
this feature was requested several times.. look here:
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin....t=16273 (http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.pl?act=st&f=22&t=16273)
xbmc would just have to do a lookup for id3 tags (artist + album tag) and then download the cover automatically from amazon.com ..
this option would be nice to en-/disable in music section in settings.
diagdave@msn.com
2006-02-21, 17:36
why? its already done when you get album info. just white button the album and click album info and it downloads the album art.
yes, but not when you listen to music singles (not an album!).
i have many music singles from different artists and from different albums in one folder.
if we could do a lookup just on the artist + album id3 tag, then xbmc could automatically download the cover from amazon of the currently playing track.
then the next track gets played back (from another artist and from another album) and xbmc will again do a lookup for this cover, and so on ..
yeah i know, one could use tag&rename for embedding the album art into the mp3 file, but that would be a full time job and never ending for 1000+ music singles from different artists/different albums.
also when you listen to a internet radio stream which sends out artist + album id3 tag then xbmc could automatically display the correct album art for the currently played track (downloaded automatically from amazon).
it would definately add more comfort and multimedia to xbmc.
using amazon or albumart.org will require a new scraper which is a not a trivial amount of work. but doing it with the existing allmusic.com scraper would be rather easy. the code to guess whats the best match is already present. it's a nice little project for someone who wants to do start doing some xbmc dev work. the same exact code could be even used to enable automaticly download covers during a database scan. (though, just remember that like the imdb download, it will be prone to error. if its fully automated, all we can do is *guess* the best match.)
again, i remind of of my scraper code, which is located in the tv section thread. we could just as well use it for music... :)