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Thank you YVG Software Services as you have saved me time.  The way to a programmer's heart is by saving him/her time.  You wrote the iTunes Art Importer, and it was your FIRST VB.NET Application.  It uses the Amazon.com Web Service to find Album Covers for my iTunes collection - and it just works.  Kudos to you, and God bless you. :)  And thank you iTunes for having a COM Automation interface.  Ain't that something, a little .NET, a little Web Services, a little OLE Automation and a hard problem is solved n times.

(See their importer, there below iTunes itself?  Shiny, eh? I've set it off to find art for 4700+ songs.  A few hundred in, and I've got a 90% hit rate.)



Thursday, July 01, 2004 7:14:49 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I've thought about using the Amazon Web Services for similar purposes, but I believe it is a violation of their licensing agreement to store their images locally for more than 24 hours. So, in order for the Album Art feature to work, you would always need to be connected to the internet, so the image can be retrieved each day it is used.
Check out the License Agreement link on http://amazon.com/webservices and see if you have a different interpretation.
Sunday, July 04, 2004 8:06:20 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Do you really have Bow wow wow in your music collection ? ;-)
SimonT
Monday, July 05, 2004 12:05:54 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Um....MAAAAYBE. ;)
Scott Hanselman
Friday, July 09, 2004 5:29:33 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Thanks for finding this. It was the sort of thing that was on my list to do.
Dustin Campbell
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