[solved] Programatically finding CD-Album-Covers?

[horst]

Hey there.

I'm (re-)ripping my 1k+ CDs in a better quality than I've done in the '90s, where 192k was good, because HD-space wasn't that cheap like today. ?

Does someone has knowledge or a idea how to programatically find CD-Album-Covers by Interpret and/or Albumname? Primarily I'm searching for a web source that has cover images.

[cstevensjr]

14 minutes ago, horst said:

Hey there.

I'm (re-)ripping my 1k+ CDs in a better quality than I've done in the '90s, where 192k was good, because HD-space wasn't that cheap like today. ?

Does someone has knowledge or a idea how to programatically find CD-Album-Covers by Interpret and/or Albumname? Primarily I'm searching for a web source that has cover images.

This may not help, but you could look into:

https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

[LostKobrakai]

I've used http://www.tuneupmedia.com/ a few years ago quite successfully. The interface is a bit wonky, but it get's the job done.

[horst]

@cstevensjr, @LostKobrakai, Thanks! ?

I've already downloaded MusicBrainz Picard, as it is OpenSource (Python), and I also already found a plugin source code that fetches covers via a fanart.tv, where one can register for a API-key. That seems to be pretty fine and I will test this out. And if it doesn't work out as expected, I will use the MusicBrainz Picard GUI-App.

[dragan]

https://www.discogs.com/developers/index.html

(untested)

[kongondo]

Just throwing one more in there...just in case. Not open source but has served me well in the past, TagScanner:

https://www.xdlab.ru/en/

Beyond tagging, renaming and moving based on custom rules makes this very powerful.

[Macrura]

I use DBPowerAmp for ripping, there are a lot of advantages to using that, it handles cover art fetching very well, and the accurate rip is also very useful