You can download this repository from GitHub, or grab it from PyPI using pip: $ pip install get_cover_art automatically installed if you use pip install below.It also embeds the artwork directly into your audio files, so that it's independent of your player. It uses Apple Music's artwork, which is already standardized and high-quality. This Python package will batch-update your entire library without manual interaction for each album. This can be forbidding for large libraries of thousands of albums. Metadata utilities like Metadatics are great (and cheap if not free), but they can require a lot of manual interaction to go through each album and select artwork from search results. That means if you move your music library elsewhere, you'll be missing all your album artwork. EXISTING SOLUTIONSĪpple's Music App (and its predecessor iTunes) has a "Get Album Artwork" feature, but it isn't reliable and doesn't actually embed cover art into your audio files. For compilations, for each song I use the year it was originally released unless it is an original song, when I will use the year the compilation was released.Missing cover art for large imported music libraries. Year: For album I base it on the year the album was first released.As an example, "Sound Of Silence" is by Simon & Garfunkel, but "My Little Town" is by Paul Simon And Art Garfunkel (they did not reunite as an act for this song). If the word "And" is part of a group's name, then I replace it with "&" as long as it is an actual group.In the same way, for solo artists I write them and short them by first name/last name (Paul McCartney is listed and sorted as "Paul McCartney." I've found that using "McCartney, Paul" becomes a nightmare when you have to combine it with other names. The exception are acts whose names are usually mentioned with "The" (like The Beatles and The Rolling Songs) which are sorted by the first word after "The". As an example, I sort "Huey Lewis & The News" with "H" and also "Huey Lewis" (solo artist) with "H". I treat it as a single string for listing and sorting purposes.So if had any two or more of Peter Gabriel's first four albums I'd have the following album titles: If the same artist has two or more albums with the same name, like Peter Gabriel, then I put the album's release year after the album's name.As an example, I have the following in my collection: Shine and Shine If the albums are by different artists then I put the artist's name in square brackets after the album name.Album Titles: If two or more album have the same title I do one of the following:.In that case, I put the writer's/writers' name in square brackets after the song title. Song Title: If there are two songs that have the same title despite being different songs (like "You Don't Own Me" where there is one song by Leslie Gore and a different song with the same name by Gilbert O'Sullivan).Square Brackets: I use square brackets to indicate any information that I add to the metadata.I've done the following for consistency (which might help others): This has been an issue I've dealt with for a long while in my attempts to get consistency in my metadata. I'd find something else to take my attention away, and the farther away I got from the issue, the more complex and difficult it appeared to start over, now here it is half a decade later, and the program's out of business, my database is corrupt, I'm in a whole 'nother OS.and I gotta go mow the lawn again.! So, naturally I would try and correct some of the spellings and mis-labelings of some of the tracks.and, wouldn't'cha know, correcting several would somehow, make the entry itself disappear, for cryin' out loud! I had to halt what I was doing, try and find the problem, but so many of the tracks I'd entered so far (which was just simply by putting the disc in the tray and have it read it automatically) had mysteriously disappeared through my misbegotten corrections, that I knew I'd have to start over. Naturally, seemingly every label could spell or describe every cut mirrored by another label's set, differently ("Close To You", for instance, and "(They Long To Be) Close To You", or "16 Tons" vs. Years ago I started a database in CATraxx, just for my Various Artist collections of singles on CD.
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