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Greetings!

So I'm just tinkering around, and I'm fiddling with a type of music library analyzer, and I'd love to include the album art for albums in the Listview row for that album. I already know how to add images to a Listview, and how to adjust the row size (though I haven't tried the bigger row size extensively yet).

So now, all I need is how to either (A) Read the embedded album art into memory, or (B) Save the art to a file.

I've searched the forum and can't find a surefire way to do it. I've seen tag reading and tag editing, but not art. I realize that AAC is probably a bit more tricky, so even MP3 would be grand.

-Pie

PS - Might be a stupid question, but what type of file would it be? Isn't it an embedded jpg?

PSS - If there's no real way to do this in AHK, I'd love suggestions for small programs that could accept MP3 files as arguments.

Hi,

I had asked a similar question and it got solved with AudioGenie. Please see post http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38346

I'll post a AudioGenie wrapper soon. Than tag reading and writting including album art will be easy.

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toralf

Thanks, I have no idea how I missed that.

I can't find where AudioGenie supports cover art, but I think I'm going to try MediaInfo instead, since I'm only going to be reading, and MediaInfo isn't nagware.

I can't seem to a valid jpg image though. I've got my test MP3, and I run "mediainfo song.mp3", and it says that 'Yes', it has album art, and it's an 'image/jpeg'.

I'm really a novice when it comes to ANSI/Unicode, tags, DLLs, and all this, but I think I might be on the right track. Here's my code so far:



It seems to run without a problem, but the JPG can't be opened. Am I just missing something blatantly obvious here?

EDIT: Durr, I feel dumb. The image is stored in Base64. I got a Base64 Decoder here, decoded the file, and it's now a perfect JPEG cover art. I would love to use a Decoder in AHK, but I tried using one that I found on the forum by Laszlo, and it took like literally 5 minutes to process the entire file. So I think that might be it.

Well, problem solved, I guess. The only annoying thing is that it takes a few seconds to extract the Cover_data, and since I kind of plan on doing it for dozens or hundreds of albums, I might have to rethink my plan.

-Pie