Nicholas said he went through all his music and tagged it with album art and it kinda made me want to do the same. He's right: scrolling to some music on your iPod and having the album art pop up when you hit play is like 20 times better than no album art.
I have a little Amazon Web Services client that I wrote to do a search based on artist/album title and retrieve the album image. I think I can use a library called JID3 to write the images to the MP3s. It will be pretty sweet. It won't integrate with iTunes (there's no way I'm writing Windows COM code to work with iTunes on Windows), but it will work on any MP3 file. You may think "wow, that's a lot of work just to get album art on your MP3s". Yeah, it is, but I've always been masochistic about stuff like this. I much prefer the hard way.
Of course there has to be some kind of user interface for this, but pish posh, I'll get to that. Just for fun, I'll probably use Eclipse RCP and SWT.
One Comment
1 Nicholas
Posted May 6, 2006 at 12:12 pmPermalink
sweet, send it to me to test when you have it ready. In other ipod news I have two favorite podcasts goin on right now you should subscribe to. SPINsider which is from spin magazinge has great music and KEXP song of the day leaves a little present for me in my podcasts every morning. It's like christmas everyday, I love podcasts!