gHacks technology news » album art http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:43:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 AutoLyrix Automatically Displays Lyrics And Album Art http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/09/autolyrix-automatically-displays-lyrics-and-album-art/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/09/autolyrix-automatically-displays-lyrics-and-album-art/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:47:01 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8843 AutoLyrix is a small cross-plattform software program that can automatically identify the song that is playing in a media player to display the lyrics and album art of it. Compatibility seems to have been of utmost importance to the developers of the software. AutoLyrix is able to detect songs in dozen of music players including Winamp, iTunes, Windows Media Player, Last.fm, XMPlay, AIMP2, Screamer Radio and provides a way to make it compatible with practically any player that is not supported.

The software will automatically search the Internet for information about the current song and display the album art and lyrics in two independent windows. It is possible to refine the search if the first hit did not display the correct items. It can happen that the lyrics are not the only information displayed as the software uses an auto parser to parse the contents.

This can be fixed easily however by simply removing the unnecessary information. Results can be saved so that only those information will be displayed the next time the song is being played on the computer system.

The program can also be configured to look in mp3 and playlists for album art and lyrics before searching the Internet for those information. There is naturally also a way to save the discovered album art and lyrics to the music to make it permanently available.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/09/autolyrix-automatically-displays-lyrics-and-album-art/feed/ 12 Add Album art to your mp3 collection http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/26/add-album-art-to-your-mp3-collection/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/26/add-album-art-to-your-mp3-collection/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:25:46 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/26/add-album-art-to-your-mp3-collection/ Many mp3 players support album art, showing it to the user in the display. Several software players support it as well, for instance the Itunes Control plugin that I wrote about earlier this week. I don’t know a single application however that can process a entire music library automatically and add album art to it.

Apple’s iTunes does it almost. You can select an option in iTunes to download album art of all selected songs using the iTunes store. That downloads lots of artworks, the main problem however is that this artwork is not added to the mp3 file directly but to a database only. If you use another application like Windows Media Player or XBMC the artwork will not be displayed.

That means that I won’t be using iTunes to add album art to my mp3 collection. The best way that I discovered is to use Media Monkey. It’s semi-automatic. You select all mp3s of an album, right-click the selection and select Auto Tag From Web or press CTRL + L instead.

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It can take some time if you have a large collection of mp3 files but it is definitely worth it. The process does not only add album art to the mp3 collection but also tags the files properly. It takes about 10 seconds per album.

I sorted my collection by album in Media Monkey at the beginning and began to work the mp3 collection from top to bottom selecting all songs of an album each time.

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