Mp3 Images

For various reasons, I've only been managing a few minutes of Tagfriendly work per day, on average.  Progress has been slow.  I thought I'd have some time to hack during my vacation, but it turns out I've been having way too much fun doing other things, in Alabama of all places.  But I did manage this...

In the beginning, Tagfriendly would show images for MP3s with images embedded in the ID3 tags.  Pretty cool, right?  Except most blogs don't seem to care about this (why should they?), which meant there are a lot of song posts with no accompanying image.

Then a few months ago I added support for grabbing the Amazon image for songs that include album data. But that hasn't been working well because the ID3 data is sparse or Amazon just doesn't carry a lot of the [indie] titles.

This week I took some time to figure out the Google APIs to see if there was a simple way to search for accompanying images that way.  I figure that at this point, I don't care so much about what image is associated with a song post so long as it is relevant, and Google so far has not disappointed there.

So enjoy Tagfriendly, now with more song art.  (For those interested, tf2 automatically uses these images.)