Make a Huge Printable Poster from Your iTunes Album Art!
Posted in Random by Dan at 8:43 pm
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Over at Instructables they have a detailed list on how to make a HUGE poster from your iTunes artwork, BUT you need a PC and a slew of software. Considering we have the smartest group of readers on the internet, I was wondering if someone could come up with a method to do this on the Mac. Anyone care to try? Mind you, the script must pull the artwork both downloaded from Apple and manually added by hand.
We were the first to get the MacOS to run on a PC, so this should be easy :)
Very quick OS X instructions:
First, copy all the artwork to a folder on the desktop using the following Terminal commands:
mkdir ~/Desktop/itunescovers
find ~/Music/iTunes/Album\ Artwork -type f -exec cp \{\} ~/Desktop/testtest \;
At this point you have all the files in a single folder named “itunescovers” on your desktop.
iTunes stores the images embedded in mpeg containers so we need to extract the images from the .itc mpeg files. The easiest way on a Mac is to download File Juicer (http://echoone.com/filejuicer/) then run File Juicer and drag-and-drop the files in the itunescovers into File Juicer.
A short while later you will have a “Juice” folder on your desktop that contains a “png” folder. Inside the “png” folder are all your Album images.
You can now use Photoshop to scale the images to a common size and layout the images using Photoshop or Picasa2 as explained in steps 4, 5 and 6 of the Instructables instructions.
hrm I could write a few line script in python to extract all the album art…
However, I’ve never taken the time to learn applescript so it’d still be windows only…
this sounds interesting, but I just don’t know if i want to put wow down long enough to do it…
Google automator and poster, you should find a automator action to make posters out of iPhoto albums, all you would need to do is figure out how to tell automator to access the itunes covers.
Correction those commands should be:
mkdir ~/Desktop/itunescovers
find ~/Music/iTunes/Album\ Artwork -type f -exec cp \{\} ~/Desktop/itunescovers \;
Python is available for Mac OS X
http://pythonmac.org/packages/
Also checkout this open source project, 1 click and instant mosaic. iTunes Album Art Extractor
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=194469
Use Posterino once you have the images in a folder. This is a great app.