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John Baber-Lucero
Asked: 2012-03-30 11:18:51 +0800 CST

CLI program to download album art

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I'd like to be able to do this:

$ pwd
/home/$USER/music/ripped_music/Monty_Python-Instant_Record_Collection
$ ls
01.The_Executive_Intro.mp3
...
16.The_Lumberjack_Song.mp3
$ mystery_command_or_script .
$ ls
01.The_Executive_Intro.mp3
...
16.The_Lumberjack_Song.mp3
album_cover.jpg
$

Somewhere in the guts of Rhythmbox, totem, etc. this is being done. I'd like to be able to do it myself.

I don't need help actually writing a script. I'd really just like to know if there's something like CDDB for album covers. (Scraping albumart.org is the current working solution.)

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4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    glyrc is the CLI program you're looking for. Once you've got it compiled and installed, this script will do what you want

    #!/bin/ksh

if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
  echo "Usage: $(basename $0) music_file.mp3"
  exit 1
fi

FILE="$1"

ALBUM="$( id3v2 --list "$FILE" |sed -n 's/TALB[^:]*: *//p' )"
ARTIST="$( id3v2 --list "$FILE" |sed -n 's/TPE1[^:]*: *//p' )"

glyrc cover --artist "$ARTIST" --album "$ALBUM"

    To compile glyrc following the author's directions you must first

    sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev libcurl3-dev cmake libglib2.0-dev
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  2. While trying to do the same I found Coverlovin, https://launchpad.net/coverlovin/+download and it worked OK for me.

    Thanks to webupd8 for signalling it.

    http://www.webupd8.org/2011/02/recursively-download-cover-art-for-all.html

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  3. This works for now. Unless some "official" way pops up, nathwill's is the answer.

    #!/bin/ksh

if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
  echo "Usage: $(basename $0) music_file.mp3"
  exit 1
fi

FILE="$1"

SEARCHTERM="$( \
/usr/bin/id3v2 --list "$FILE" |sed -n '/^Album *: */ {
  s///
  s/ *Year: *\([^,]*\),.*$/ \1/
  s/  */+/g
  p
}' )"

TOP="http://www.albumart.org/index.php?searchkey="
BOT="&itempage=1&newsearch=1&searchindex=Music"
URL="$TOP""$SEARCHTERM""$BOT"

IMGURL="$(wget -O - "$URL" |grep 'View larger image' |head -1 |sed 's/^.*<a href="\([^"]*\)"  *title="View larger image".*$/\1/')"

wget -O cover.jpg "$IMGURL"
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  4. gmusicbrowser searches Google Images for cover art.

    Rhythmbox, according to its FAQ, uses last.fm to download cover art. It used to use discogs (according to a bug report in 2010 I found) but Rhythmbox got banned from it.

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