Export Artwork for Mac

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By DizzyPenguin

Extract, download iTunes album art.

Export Artwork is a shareware AppleScript Studio application for use with iTunes on Mac OS X. It's main function is to extract the Artwork from the selected track's ID3 tag and copy it to an image file in a chosen location. It is also a fully fledged Artwork manager as it can fetch album covers over the Internet and embed Artwork to the ID3 tag, making it a great tool to update your cover collection as your music library grows. For those of you who have already filled your library's worth of mp3 / m4a (AAC) files with the Artwork, but want to remove it from the ID3 tag to keep the file size down, and still keep all those album covers, or if you're looking for a way to compile all your album covers for a database or gallery, here is a solution to export Artwork back into it's own file.

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GENERAL

Release: October 17, 2011

Latest update: August 29, 2015

Version: 4.2

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Mac

Operating System

Mac OS X 10.6
Mac OS X 10.7
Mac OS X

Additional Requirements: None

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Total Downloads: 565

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3.6/5

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final errors on ID3 tag
Peters Mac FixitOctober 29, 2005
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />On 10-08-2005 the artwork ran on a 17000 song library when 1349 songs became corrupt on the ID3 tag. Allthough the support was very helpfull at start still no solution or reason was found. Here 's a list of errors on the ID3 Tags: - Could not duplicate cover image. (-43) Finder got an error: File some object wasn't found. --> results in crash of itunes - Could not embed Artwork. (-208) iTunes got an error: An error of type -208 has occurred. --> results in song no longer playable - Could not embed Artwork. (-39) iTunes got an error: End of file error. --> results in crash of itunes - Could not embed Artwork. (-45) iTunes got an error: File some object is locked.--> results in crash of itunes - Could not embed Artwork. (-50) iTunes got an error: Parameter error. --> results in crash of itunes - File not found. (-1728) --> no impact If someone has encountered same issues, or even better can resolve corrupted Tags, please notify. IN the past Export artwork worked fine, but first I want this issue be resolved before using further, to avoid further tag problems. Kind regards, Peter
Totally Rocks
mjharperSeptember 15, 2005
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br /><p>I've been looking for something like this for absolutely ages. I've tried everything I could find on versiontracker: Clutter, Album Cover Finder, Fetch Art; you name it, I've (probably) tried it. And the best I'd found before was the Artwork Search in Media Rage.</p> <p>What made that better than the rest? The overview of several covers; and multiple stores to choose from. This latter is essential, as far as I'm concerned. I'm English and live in Germany, and have a lot of cds that just don't exist on Amazon.com. In Clutter you can check several stores (includine Amazon.de) but have to enter the preferences to do so; in FetchArt you actually have to restart the application to search in a different store. In Media Rage those stores are right above the preview window. Great. Only no Amazon.de.</p> <p>Enter Export Artwork. This can be set to search any of 6 Amazon stores. I've never seen an app that search the French Amazon store - great for Les Negresses Vertes. It can even be set to search them all at once all at once!</p> <p>And that's not the least of it. Export Artwork can also look through your entire library and make a playlist of only those songs which are missing artwork - then go through each piece and add artwork (similar to FetchArt, but much less traumatic). It has a very elegent HTML export function (which seems to be missing an index, but there has to be room for improvement). It will resize your artwork - and you can specify that it should only do so if the original is larger than the target size (great for home-made scans). And that's all without even talking about the export functions.</p> <p>Buying advice: if you need all the tools which (the $30) Media Rage has on offer - and it has a truly impressive array - then that is your application of choice. For the pure and simple album artwork fanatic, it has to be Export Artwork.</p>
Responsive Developer - Good Software
wademaxAugust 3, 2005
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />The developer is very responsive, I had a problem with 4.0 and now a couple of days and emails later, 4.0.1 is out that fixes the issue. The product does what I need it to do (batch process folders of mp3s and existing cover images, then try to find any missing ones via Amazon). It does the searching with as much as accuracy as you can expect (it all depends on the quality of your tagging - Garbage In Garbage Out) and within the limits of what the Amazon have catalogued. What more can you ask for? And all for $10, you can't get any more reasonable than that...
Mea Culpa... disregard previous post
gryphonentMay 3, 2005
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I apologize for my angry email... but from the three applications that came out with upgrades charging users merely to run under 10.4 Export Artwork is actuallly the only one that still works with my version 3 registration number. Tried again following a reply from the developer on my previous post and I guess I made a mistake when entering the serial. It all works fine now. However, this does not change my opinion on Export Artwork per se... it does a good job at finding artwork, however, only if you do it manually and have tagged your songs correctly using iEatBrainz. To really stand out among the crowd thatÃ¢??s doing the same service, ie. retrieving artwork from Amazon, this little application needs to come up with the goods.
Works Perfectly, Great for Photo iPod Users
varshadApril 13, 2005
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I used this to download artwork from Amazon for my entire music collection. Although for about 30% it can't find it, that's to be expected, since I have a lot of older stuff that Amazon won't carry. It works flawlessly on my collection of 12000 files, and is fun to watch. I also had it export the artwork, so my Apache::MP3 module picks it up and puts it in my exported webpages. This is a necessity for any iPod Photo users, I love having the cover art show up when I play music. This also works a lot better than the version of FetchArt I tried, which hung on my collection. It's also more functional, snappier, and gives better visual feedback. DizzyPenguin's site also is very useful and has a great FAQ section. For under $10, this is a bargain!
worth the registration fee
plankjr_dotmacNovember 7, 2004
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Nice little program. Works as advertised. Has some nice search features.
Wrong art
pubwvjFebruary 15, 2004
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I've had a lot of trouble with this downloading the wrong artwork which is rather annoying since then I have to go back and get rid of it. It is too bad as the program as a lot of nice features. I wish it were accurate. I want 100% accuracy. I'm getting about 30% accuracy. I'm using Sofa instead although that lacks the batch processing I like so much in Export Artwork.
Works well
DemiGodRobFebruary 3, 2004
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I registered it and like it. Not perfect and slow but it does the job. I have found many errors that it picked the wrong artwork so there needs to be some updating and fixes to that - but all in all it is worth the $$$ as the apps works well and does its job. Only a couple crashes and the update has not crashed yet.
What an improvment!
Fred_LeonardJanuary 24, 2004
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />It was ceazy, and completely useless before.<p> Now it actually works, and I will most likely register soon!<p> Now that it's working, the only suggestion I have is to check other sites for pictures too. If it doesn't find a match on one, try another.<p> Go from allmusic.com to amazon.com, ect.<p> Also, it's out of the scope of this app, but for future enhancements, it would be nice to grab the lyrics from somewhere and add them to the MP3.<p> I am still playing around with it, but now that it's working, I like what I see..<p>
Export Artwork Works Great!
Fred_LeonardJanuary 20, 2004
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />And it's free!!!!<p><p> It would be nice if it was a little more automatic, and had the other features that this app claims to have, but this thing is totally useless.<p> Is anyone out there really going to log in and out constantly to try to get this thing to work?<p> Especially when it didn't even work the first time!<p>