I couldnt find a simple utility that would extract Album art from my MP3 files and create Thumbnails so I wrote one using the open source Java Music Tag library. The latest documentation and code will always be available at http://mp3imagetagextr.sourceforge.net/
This utility is ideal for building thumbnails of album art suitable for use with the XBOX Media player.
+--MusicFolder +------Artist +-----AlbumOne +-----AlbumTwo
MP3ImageTagExtractor Valid usage is: java -cp .;MP3Tag-0.3.jar;bin com.revasoft.jmp3tagextractor.Mp3ImageTagExtractor -srcDir d:/src [-targetDir d:/thumbnails] [-fileMask *.mp3] [-targetFileExtension .tbn] [-overwriteExisting] [-skipAlbumThumbnail] [-skipArtistThumbnail] [-skipTrackThumbnail] [-resize 64x64] OR java -cp .;MP3Tag-0.3.jar;bin com.revasoft.jmp3tagextractor.Mp3ImageTagExtractor -srcFile d:/src/test.mp3 [-targetFile fileName] [-targetDir d:/thumbnails] [-targetFileExtension .tbn] [-overwriteExisting] [-skipAlbumThumbnail] [-skipArtistThumbnail] [-resize 64x64]
Paremeters in square brackets are optional parameters.
Version History:
Version | Date | Who | Comments |
V1.0 | 30.07.2003 | Sanjay | First release |
V1.1a | 03.12.2003 | Sanjay | Added Linux shell script |