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

[Mathijs Dumon <mathijsken hotmail com>]

I think it would be great if this could be added to the Wiki or the Faq!

greetz,
Mat



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.
> 
> Cheers
> Steve
> 
> 
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