Re: [Banshee-List] HOWTO: Manually creating cover art

[Stephen Holmes <stephen onedotone com>]

Agreed!  This is for straightforward rip and sync!

Might be an idea to script a helper converter.  Also it's a pain if you
have an album like Version-Mark Ronson, where every track but three has
other participants meaning that the artist-album thing won't work.

S.



On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 16:26 -0700, Jon Cosby wrote:
> Stephen Holmes wrote:
> > Folks,
> > You'll have noticed that you can't yet drag cover art onto a track/album
> > on Banshee-1.  This feature will be back soon, but in the meantime if
> > your device is screaming for some visual love, then here's what you need
> > to do...
> > 
> > 1.  Power up a browser and head to Amazon, selecting the Music option in
> > the dropdown
> > 2.  Match your Banshee album title with the album in Amazon and select
> > (where available) the larger of the coverarts available
> > 3.  Right-click on the image in the browser and select "Save Image
> > As..."
> > 
> > 4.  The image is named as follows...
> >  
> >     {Artist Name}-{Album Name}
> > 
> > To correctly form this name however, you need to lowercase everything
> > and remove spaces and punctuation marks.   Examples...
> > 
> >     A.  Artist "Barenaked Ladies", Album "Disc One: All Their Greatest
> > Hits: 1991-2001" would have a cover art file name of "
> > barenakedladies-disconealltheirgreatesthits19912001.jpg"
> > 
> >     B.  Artist "Fun Lovin' Criminals", Album "Come Find Yourself" would
> > become "funlovincriminals-comefindyourself.jpg"
> > 
> > 5.  Copy these files (or save them directly) to ~/.cache/album-art 
> > 6.  Banshee will pick up the image art next time around.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the information. This could get problematic if you have a lot 
> of remixed stuff though.
> 
> 
> 
> jon
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