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NEW: Save Album Art as folder.jpg
Shortly after updating Save Album Art to Album Folder I got a few emails from users who wanted to save iTunes track artwork as a single "folder.jpg" image file in the track's Album folder. Some third-party music devices and systems, like Sonos, may use a "folder.jpg" file found here as display artwork for the audio files that accompany it in the folder. (Sonos is apparently also capable of using embedded artwork, but I understand there is some restriction here size-wise or something. And, of course, not all audio file formats allow image data to be embedded.)
At first I thought I'd post a quick how-to-mod, but it was eventually easier to just write a new script. Save Album Art as folder.jpg will do what I said above about the "folder.jpg" thing. Like the other script mentioned, it has an additional settings panel that you can access by Option-launching the script:
NEW: Restore Artwork from Album Folder
Restore Artwork from Album Folder will look for an image file in the parent folder of each selected track's file--presumably its "Album" folder--and apply the data from that image file as artwork for the track. If more than one image file is found in the target folder than the first one found will be used. I didn't include a preferences pane as I did for Save Album Art to Album Folder, but you can hard-code the kind of image file to look for, JPEG or PNG, in the script.
UPDATED: Save Album Art to Album Folder v3.0
The script Save Album Art to Album Folder will export the display artwork of each selected track as an image file to the folder which contains each selected track's file—presumably the track's Album folder—or a single user-selected folder. The script will try to ensure that only one copy of an album's artwork is exported to the folder if multiple album tracks are selected.
This newest version provides a special Preference pane that enables additional sips image processing options to be set:
This can be accessed by pressing and holding the keyboard's Option key while launching the script from iTunes' Scripts menu.
NEW: Search Amazon Book Covers v1.0
Here's a pretty basic Search-Amazon-For-Art script. It grabs the name, artist, and genre tags from a single selected book-type track in iTunes and lets you choose which of those tags to use as keywords in a search for book cover artwork at Amazon Books. Search Amazon Book Covers currently pings the US Amazon site, but it can easily be mod'd to work with their other sites, or as the basis for a search of some other site.
Updated Spareparts Section
A Correspondent via the AppleScript Users email list detected a problem with a script snippet of mine regarding grabbing the artwork data from an iTunes track with iTunes 9 and Snow Leopard. That very day I also had updated Export Artwork with a fix for a similar issue. At any rate, the snippet resides in the Spare Parts section and, to be more exact, the updated snippet with the fix is here.
UPDATED: Export Artwork v2.0
Export Artwork saves the artwork of the single selected track to a user-chosen folder as a PNG or JPG file, with scaling options. Default location is the folder containing the selected track's file, however any location can be selected.
This latest version fixes a problem creating the graphics file with iTunes 9 under Snow Leopard, and is generally updated after two years.
UPDATED: Embed Artwork v2.0
I've updated Brian Webster's Embed Artwork as universal binary, but otherwise there are no changes. This script simply re-embeds artwork into the files of the selected tracks. Handy for ensuring that artwork data travels with a file.
UPDATED: Art to Desktop v2.1
This Stay-Open applet will continuously update your desktop picture to the album artwork of the currently playing track. Art to Desktop v2.1 is just spruced up to work better with Snow Leopard, other minor enhancements.
UPDATED: Save Album Art to Album Folder v2.0
Save Album Art to Album Folder v2.0 is a collection of two scripts that will assist with exporting Album artwork to a track's parent folder, presumably the track's "Album" folder.
- "Save Album Art to Album Folder" will export the artwork of the selected tracks or tracks in the selected playlist as a graphics file to the folder which contains each selected track's file--or a specific user-selected folder.
- "Save Track Art to Album Folder" exports the artwork of the single selected track to its parent folder, replacing any previous version.
Read Me explains much more, including modifications you can easily make.
Universal binary for OS 10.5 and better only.
This latest version updates syntax for compatibility with Snow Leopard, streamlines some code, provides new bundled progress indicator app.
UPDATED: Tracks Without Artwork to Playlist v3.3
Tracks Without Artwork to Playlist is up to version 3.3 and fixes the compatibility problem with iTunes 7.7.1.
