Album Cover Art Downloader
             http://unrealvoodoo.org/hiteck/projects/albumart

Here's a program that will semi-automatically download album cover images for your music collection. All you have to do is point it at the root of your music directory and for each directory, the program will download a set of corresponding (well, best guess) album covers from the Internet, from which you can choose one that suits your fancy.

Currently supported image providers:

 * Yahoo! Images
 * Wal-Mart
 * Buy.com

At least the following programs make use of the cover images:

 * KDE, GNOME and others that follow the FreeDesktop.org
   .desktop-entry spec
 * Windows XP Explorer
 * Windows Media Player 9+
 * CDcover, an XMMS plugin
 * CoverViewer, another XMMS plugin.
 * wmalbum, a WindowMaker dock applet
 * Various WinAMP plugins, for example ShowCover.

In addition, some portable music players can show the cover image if it is embedded in the MP3 file.

Usage

Click File | Open and navigate to the directory containing the albums you want to find cover images for. The program will load all the music files under the path you chose and sort them into albums.

If you are feeling lazy, just select Edit | Select All followed by Edit | Download missing cover images and sit back while the program downloads covers for all the directories lacking them. The automatic downloader only accepts exact matches while searching covers, so it may miss some directories.

To set a cover manually, pick a directory from the list and check that the artist and album fields at the top-right corner are sensible. Now click Download Covers. After a few seconds you should see a list of cover images on the right. If no images are found, try to simplify the artist and album fields (e.g. clear the album field completely). You can also drop an image from your file manager on the list to use that one.

Go ahead and choose a suitable cover from the list. Finally, click Set as Cover to confirm your choice. You can also drag and drop the cover image on the albums or music files of your choice.

Command line options

-h, --help Show summary of options.

-d, --download Download covers for the given path.

-x, --delete Remove covers below the given path.

-s, --synchronize Synchronizes all covers below the given path.

-H, --hidden Don't show a progress dialog while working.

-i, --summary Show summary information when done.

Internals

The cover images are in one or more of the following places:

 * folder.jpg for Windows XP
 * .folder.png and an Icon entry in .directory for
   Konqueror, etc.
 * ID3v2 APIC frame, which is embedded into the MP3 files.
 * Additional custom image targets are supported