What would be (if there is one) the best software is insert an album or single cover image in to a thousand or so MP3s? Doing it by hand would take forever plus I'm not actually sure how to inbed the image in to the actuall MP3 file. Yakumo
You could try this python script http://blog.lostpaperclips.com/2010/10/29/embedding-images-in-mp3-files-version-003
From what I remember Songbird and latest Winamp versions can find and embed disc covers on MP3 files. Edit: 1000th post! :drool:
I personally use Pollux, which works really well. Analyzes the song, figures out what it is.. fixes all the tags and adds image art. Only downside is, it costs $10 a year. http://www.polluxapp.com
I'm not really in to the computer "fixing" the tags because they normally mess them up and putt he album down as some compilation thing. I'll give the suggestions a try. thanks guys!
I believe Mp3tag had that option, I used that program a while back, iirc you had the option to do everything manually or auto, and it was pretty good for editing large batches of mp3s.
Man, this is weird stuff. I was researching on the same question when I came across this thread. I'll also try the software you guys recommend - and we'll see how it works.
Well... MP3Tag doesn't seem to download anything related to album art, but has a database and stuff. Will keep trying.
hmmm CDex does a great job, of finding the correct album. If you are thinking of ripping a CD(original or copy of the original CD), so the next job would perhaps be to let mp3tag or perhaps more like the latest winamp to find the album cover.
but Winamp sucks donkey balls when I try to update the tags... I'd have to do it one by one, wouldn't I?
Not necessarily, you have two tools in Winamp that handle tags, "Edit metadata" allows you to do a more exact edit of ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags, while with "View file info" you can edit all files at once, selecting the fields you want to change (artist, album, title...).
For now, I'll be trying this one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/ And it seems to be working. Let's see what happens.
I tend to make my own cover art for video game soundtracks, and I use Media Monkey (http://www.mediamonkey.com/) to tag it. It allows you to select a large group and edit their properties as a whole.
With Pollux btw you can set what tags you want it to set. So you could set it to just grab album art.
This is what I originally did but It was pain tk use on some music players. Embedding the image into the MP3 seems the full proof way. I'll give Pollux a try tonight.
I've written my own MP3 Tag editor in Java because I was sick of how other programs would handle tags. I am pretty ADD when it comes to my MP3 collection, meaning all my tags and images have to be perfect. I haven't implemented a "mass" edit feature in my program, but that's a great idea. As of now you edit files one at a time. And yes, I know what you mean. My MP3 files must have embedded image files (as actual tags) vs. the Itunes way of using it's own method. This way you can ensure the image is always coming with the MP3.
The only reason I need album art is for my Zune. I don't use the player program for anything other than syncing my device... but usually it has pretty much everything on there, so I just right-click an album and tell it to "find album info", select the album, and it fixes tags and adds album art to my liking. On the PC I just navigate my outrageously-well-organized collection through explorer and load into Foobar, which doesn't show any art.
I think I've come up with a solution. Pullox turned out to be a waste of time for me because you have to use bloody iTunes which is awful on windows. So I'm using the Album art downloader that XerdoPwerko posted (http://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/) It's a fantastic bit of software. It's found EVERYTHING I've thrown at it including obscure stuff. To write the covers to the MP3 I'm using Tag&Rename 3.5.7 It blows Winamp away as far as file management goes and very easy to use. You can add the album cover to the image tag (best option) or place it in a folder. Yakumo
