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CLI program to download album art

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I'd like to be able to do this:

$ pwd

/home/$USER/music/ripped_music/Monty_Python-Instant_Record_Collection

$ ls

01.The_Executive_Intro.mp3

...

16.The_Lumberjack_Song.mp3

$ mystery_command_or_script .

$ ls

01.The_Executive_Intro.mp3

...

16.The_Lumberjack_Song.mp3

album_cover.jpg

$

Somewhere in the guts of Rhythmbox, totem, etc. this is being done. I'd like to be able to do it myself.

I don't need help actually writing a script. I'd really just like to know if there's something like CDDB for album covers. (Scraping albumart.org is the current working solution.)

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answered 2 Years ago finatch · Accepted Answer

glyrc is the CLI program you're looking for. Once you've got it compiled and installed, this script will do what you want

#!/bin/ksh



if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then

  echo "Usage: $(basename $0) music_file.mp3"

  exit 1

fi



FILE="$1"



ALBUM="$( id3v2 --list "$FILE" |sed -n 's/TALB[^:]*: *//p' )"

ARTIST="$( id3v2 --list "$FILE" |sed -n 's/TPE1[^:]*: *//p' )"



glyrc cover --artist "$ARTIST" --album "$ALBUM"

To compile glyrc following the author's directions you must first

sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev libcurl3-dev cmake libglib2.0-dev