I've written a new application. It's called Artie – The Strongest App… in the World!, or just Artie for short.
Artie's main purpose is two-fold: download appropriate album art covers for songs in your iTunes database and to create playlists based on these album art covers.
Artie uses Amazon.com to search for album art covers. If it finds a wrong one, it'll find the right one. If it can't find anything, it'll move on.
Artie can also resize the album art already assigned to songs in your database. Some songs might have HUGE album covers, making the file size of your songs larger, taking up precious hard drive space and/or iPod space. Artie resizes the images to 160x160 pixels, making them still viewable in iTunes and on your iPod without distortion, while cutting down file sizes.
If you hate album art, Artie can also remove the album art from the selected tracks.
Artie can make playlists base don your album art. Artie can put all songs with no art into a playlist, which can help you in future updates to your library. One of Artie's unique features is the ability to make playlists based off of the color of the album cover. For instance, an album cover that is primarily black (Metallica's self-titled album) would go in a black playlist, while albums that are primarily blue (Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape ) would go in a blue playlist. While the color detection isn't always 100% accurate, it does create some very random playlists since it is not based on genres or ratings, or even years.
Artie can also set each songs individual equalizer settings based on the track's genre. For example, rock and metal songs would be set to the Rock EQ setting, whereas rap would be assigned the Hip-Hop EQ setting. This sets sounds in each song to certain levels so that you always hear the most out of your music, no matter the genre.
Artie can also add or remove track numbers from song titles. Occassionally, tracks in your library may have the track number in their title (07 Say It Ain't So, for example). Artie can detect and remove the track number. This will not affect songs like "99 Red Balloons," unless of course you have it's track number set as 99. If you happen to like having the track numbers dislayed in the song titles, Artie can help you out by adding them in.
Artie is currently at version 0.9, so it's definitely not finished. There's room for improvement, and I'd love to add plenty more features. Artie may have some bugs, but don't worry, the worst it could do right now is put a red album in the blue playlist or set the art for The Beatle's White Album to the art of Lewis Black's White Album. Of course, you can catch that before it saves changes. Anyhow, give Artie a whirl and report back with anything you find. I want to add tons more features, I just need to see what everyone would like to see.
Download Artie v0.9 (3.2MB) here.
Artie's main purpose is two-fold: download appropriate album art covers for songs in your iTunes database and to create playlists based on these album art covers.
Artie uses Amazon.com to search for album art covers. If it finds a wrong one, it'll find the right one. If it can't find anything, it'll move on.
Artie can also resize the album art already assigned to songs in your database. Some songs might have HUGE album covers, making the file size of your songs larger, taking up precious hard drive space and/or iPod space. Artie resizes the images to 160x160 pixels, making them still viewable in iTunes and on your iPod without distortion, while cutting down file sizes.
If you hate album art, Artie can also remove the album art from the selected tracks.
Artie can make playlists base don your album art. Artie can put all songs with no art into a playlist, which can help you in future updates to your library. One of Artie's unique features is the ability to make playlists based off of the color of the album cover. For instance, an album cover that is primarily black (Metallica's self-titled album) would go in a black playlist, while albums that are primarily blue (Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape ) would go in a blue playlist. While the color detection isn't always 100% accurate, it does create some very random playlists since it is not based on genres or ratings, or even years.
Artie can also set each songs individual equalizer settings based on the track's genre. For example, rock and metal songs would be set to the Rock EQ setting, whereas rap would be assigned the Hip-Hop EQ setting. This sets sounds in each song to certain levels so that you always hear the most out of your music, no matter the genre.
Artie can also add or remove track numbers from song titles. Occassionally, tracks in your library may have the track number in their title (07 Say It Ain't So, for example). Artie can detect and remove the track number. This will not affect songs like "99 Red Balloons," unless of course you have it's track number set as 99. If you happen to like having the track numbers dislayed in the song titles, Artie can help you out by adding them in.
Artie is currently at version 0.9, so it's definitely not finished. There's room for improvement, and I'd love to add plenty more features. Artie may have some bugs, but don't worry, the worst it could do right now is put a red album in the blue playlist or set the art for The Beatle's White Album to the art of Lewis Black's White Album. Of course, you can catch that before it saves changes. Anyhow, give Artie a whirl and report back with anything you find. I want to add tons more features, I just need to see what everyone would like to see.
Download Artie v0.9 (3.2MB) here.
Like the previous Poster: Updating genre,ALbum title etc. would be fantastic!
I can't think of any dependencies that Artie uses that are XP-specific, but I could be wrong. I'll look around and see also if anyone else has any 2K issues.
I'd hate to tell you to leave 2K since there's a reason so many people and businesses still use it, but at some point, you'll probably have to make the jump.
Keep checking back for any progress I make.
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