Regarding the Amazon API issue - I ran into this with Media Monkey, but they updated the code very quickly. I now mostly use it by going to Amazon, finding the cover art, and then manually dragging and dropping on the folder in question.This is interesting.
However, due a fairly recent change to Amazon's API it no longer works. It used to be able to pull the cover art from Amazon, which I find to have the best art for my needs. Unfortunately, there is one problem with this program (at least for me).
It has a lot of options for how you want the album art to work (embed within tags/files call it cover.jpg, folder.jpg, etc. Find out where your biggest listeners are with location insights. All the reports you need, all in one place. I've found that it works better for mp3 files than flac files. With the Amazon Music for Artists app, instantly know how your fans are listening to your music. The Amazon Album Artwork Retriever works with Amazon Web Services, to take in artist and album strings, and return a url for the amazon cover, which can be downloaded and saved for display/delivery. A lot of how well the automatic process works depends on the naming / tagging of files. You can use it with varying degrees of automation from selecting your entire music folder and having it go look for the cover art to manually dragging and dropping cover art onto a folder. I now mostly use it by going to Amazon, finding the cover art, and then manually dragging and dropping on the folder in question.Īctually, there is a cross-platform, open source program called "Album Cover Art Downloader" ( ) that I find works pretty well. Musixmatch API Musixmatch is the worlds largest catalog of song lyrics and translations. It allows users to call methods that respond in either XML or JSON.
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However, due a fairly recent change to Amazon's API it no longer works. The RESTful API allows for read and write access to the full slate of last.fm music data resources - albums, artists, playlists, events, users, and more. I've found that it works better for mp3 files than flac files. This is how I do it.Actually, there is a cross-platform, open source program called "Album Cover Art Downloader" ( ) that I find works pretty well. You may have to use a Windows client (I use my Vista laptop) and save the artwork to your Linux machine via a SAMBA share.
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I think you indirectly have an answer - I don't think there are any sofisticated tools to download artwork on Linux. Sorry about that - you're right, this is the Linux forum.