foobar2000 + AlbumArtDownloader - automate the search and download of the covers of music CDs

Many people consider the cover a mandatory part of the album, most likely they are right. But often, downloading the album on the web bittorent, buying mp3-files in the online store, or ripping your own disc, we do not get the cover of this very set. And you want ...

The most obvious way out of the situation seems to be to type "% artist%% album%" in Google, go to the Pictures tab, select the appropriate one, open it, choose the save path and, just in case, rename it

But why do so many gestures when the process can be automated?

We need foobar2000 , the foo_run component , and the AlbumArtDownloader program .
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Install foobar2000 and AlbumArtDownloader (you may need .net Framework 3.5 SP1), copy foo_run to the components folder of fubar. Everything is ready, proceed to configure

foobar2000 -> File -> Preferences -> Tools -> Run Services, add a new one and call it, for example, AlbumArtDownloader



In the Path field, copy-paste code

"C:\Program Files\AlbumArtDownloader\albumart.exe" -ae on -pf on -ar "%album artist%" -al "%album%" -p "$replace(%_path%,'\'%_filename_ext%,)" -f "cover.'%'extension'%'"

if the path is different from the default, then we change

Now run AlbumArtDownloader, set it up as in the screenshot.



Its settings are simple and clear, you can always change them to your liking

Everything is ready, we try







The cover is saved to the folder with the source files under the name "cover"