After a couple of months now of trying to wrangle my cover art under control I have a few observations to make:
1. There is no one tool that does everything needed to get cover art for my albums. Some tools are better at finding the art, some tools are better at organizing the art, some tools are better at pairing art to song titles, etc....I don't expect this to change any time soon.
2. There 4 major ways of saving cover art (and probably more): in the mp3 itself, in a cover art directory, in the same folder as the mp3s with the name folder.jpg, or in the same folder as the mp3s...named after the album (example: purple rain.jpg).
3. The differing tools (as in #1, which aren't going away), all save in different ways.....
Where is this all leading?
A tool is desperately needed to move between all formats and save methods. This programs should:
translate album art from all the different "save" methods, ie:
move from internal to external
move from cover art directory to folder.jpg format
move from cover art directory to albumname.jpg format
move back from all these formats as well
It should also allow the user to check the work, then clean up the old formats (delete images from old method) when given the "okay" by the user.
Is this a possibility in MC? Does anyone else have any ideas on this subject? Any tools out there I don't know about that do exactly this?