[slinkelist] Cover Art

michael mcdermott m@wroth.com
Mon, 01 Nov 1999 19:08:30 -0500


Tom Hammond-Doel wrote:
> 
> The deal is that my 600 covers, at a boring 1 and a half minutes per cover
> is 15 hours of utterly boring wasted time.  The only bad side-effect of
> getting covers automatically is that the resolution that I've seen is
> pretty lousy - which is why I'm still scanning my own covers into the
> database between zzzzzzzz's (one beer, one scan, one beer, one scan....).
> 
> Rein wrote:
> 
> > What is all this trouble over cover art. Scanners are a dime a dozen
> > these days so just scan the covers. No need for any fancy programs that
> > don't work half the time.
> >
> > Marc Parker wrote:
> >
> > > Can anyone suggest additional sources beyond CDNOW for cover art?
> > >
> > > Parker
> > >



Has anyone tried to write a program that grabs cover art from amazon.com
yet?
The resolution is much better even if their naming convention is really
obtuse.




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