Cover Art Providers
About
The Cover Art Providers suite is a set of PHP classes that provide functionality to search for and download cover art images. Internally HTML DOM and XPath queries are used to acquire links to album cover art images from external services.
Currently the following classes are implemented:
Cover Art Search frontend (http://coverart.katastrophos.net)
CoverArtProviderAmazon
Queries Amazon and returns matches;
Supports different top-level domains (com, de, fr);
CoverArtProviderGoogleImages
Queries Google Images and returns matches;
Supports different top-level domains (com, de, fr);
CoverArtProviderBuyDotCom
Queries Buy.com and returns matches;
CoverArtProviderWalmart
Queries Walmart and returns matches;
CoverArtProviderCache
Queries a cache (internal SQLite database) and, if no match is found, delegates to a list of specified CoverArtProvider class instances.
The classes of the Cover Art Providers suite along with necessary simple webservices are part of the Quasar Media Player source code and are used in the Cover Art Downloader add-on.
Demo
The Cover Art Providers suite is available for testing purposes via our katastrophos.net Cover Art search front-end.
Download
There is no official separate release of the Cover Art Providers codebase. It is included in the Quasar Media Player source code which can be found here.
A current development version is available via our SCM:
http://trac.katastrophos.net/quasar/browser/trunk/addons/coverartdownloader/PHPService
License
The Cover Art Providers suite is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 and the source code is freely available.
March 28th, 2010 at 22:18
[...] as add-on. This release also marks the introduction of the Cover Art Downloader which uses the new open-source katastrophos.net Cover Art search engine to download cover art images for the new Cover Art Flow album [...]
December 3rd, 2010 at 10:23
Is there a way to include this in Amarok 1.14?