i7AWF.pm DEMO NO LONGER WORKS!

Sebastian78 · Post by **Sebastian78** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:35 am

Daaaaaaaaa...n that Steve-O-Jobs, he's done it again....can't say I don't understand WHY but, it's annoying for me at least. Still have a lot of albums to change covers on....

http://printf.dk/cgi-bin/i7AWF.cgi

From the BLOG:

To Alex and Anonymous.

It is not [completely] broken, it is that Apple appear to be gradually encrypting all the artwork so it cannot be displayed by the script.

For example, Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” no longer seems to work but Hard-Fi’s “Stars of CCTV” still does.

Encrypting the artwork is rather petty and even sillier. I wanted recently to get artwork for Nirvana’s “In Utero” and this is now encrypted. As I do have an iTunes account I was able to use iTunes to “Get Album Art”. Fortunately in this case the artwork returned matched the UK edition of the CD. I was then able to convert the .itc file to an ordinary jpeg for use with Windows Media Player. I then CLEARED the “Got” art and replaced it with the jpeg. This meant that the art was then EMBEDDED in all the tracks!

Note: the above does not help when iTunes returns the ‘wrong’ artwork for your country (e.g. Fatboy Slim’s “Why Try Harder”, iTunes always ‘Gets’ the US cover and not the UK cover, which fortunately I was able to get via the script).

All this faffing about because Apple are being anally retentive.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:44 am

This is the case with my "Google Art Finder" script which uses the same search method as this demo page when using iTunes as the source. That's why I don't think iTunes will make it as a source in any of my other scripts - it's getting less and less useful!

Post by **Lowlander** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:45 pm

I guess that this is the cause of the issue I reported with the Google Art Tagger. I hope it's a matter of time before someone cracks the encryption as it was a great service by Apple.

Sebastian78 · Post by **Sebastian78** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:31 am

I REALLY need this now, I'm addicted to having 500x500 album art in "high quality"......aaaaaaarrrrg, everytime I see a fuzzy album I wanna HIT somebody....

Ok, over the top there, but I need it......

How about a little "MM Users Side Project" where we pool our collected album art? FTP?

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:10 am

It is annoying, but I'm sure someone (cleverer than me) will find a way through.