AlbumArtXtractor: Extract Album Artwork from iTunes 7
One of the new features of iTunes 7 is that it will download missing album artwork for your music. However, it apparently keeps these images separate from the actual music files and doesn’t add them to the ID3 tags of the music files. As a result, you see the art on your computer but not your iPod (or someone else’s computer).
So I’ve written a quick-and-dirty application to extract these images from where they’re stored in the iTunes directory. The application is written in AppleScript and uses a couple of the UNIX command line utilities to do its work, so you need a Mac with OSX and the BSD Subsystem installed (which is usually installed by default). Sorry, no PC version as a result — but read below if you want to write a similar program for the PC, its really a CS 101 project.










