[DUG] iPods & iTunes

[Trevor Jones]

Hi all,
  How many of you have iPods?  iTunes?

  iTunes (and some iPods) has a facility wherein the album artwork for a
track can be displayed.

  The trick (like the mouse in the lightbulb joke) is getting the artwork in
there.

  I've searched the 'Net and found a number of solutions, all of which seem
to be written in VB.NET, and all have their pros and cons.  Actually working
is considered to be a pro...  costing lots is considered to be a con.
Requiring the .NET framework is also considered to be a con.

  Having had a little too much time on my hands, I have written a pure
Delphi solution (Win32) which will try to find artwork for all of your
iTunes albums.  It reads your iTunes library (COM), then searches amazon
(SOAP) for appropriate graphics to display.  If it finds an appropriate
graphic, it applies it to the relevant tracks.

  The program is about a meg and a half and actually works wherever I've
tried it.

  If anyone is interested in trying it out, please email me off the list and
I'll give you a URL where you can find it. 

  If you want the source code, I can supply that as well, but since it is a
quick and dirty thingummy, don't blame me if you don't like the way that it
looks.  The source is D7 (but might work in D6).

Trevor