FetchArt Plugin =============== The ``fetchart`` plugin retrieves album art images from various sources on the Web and stores them as image files. Fetching Album Art During Import -------------------------------- To automatically get album art for every album you import, just enable the plugin by putting ``fetchart`` on your config file's ``plugins`` line (see :doc:`/plugins/index`). By default, beets stores album art image files alongside the music files for an album in a file called ``cover.jpg``. To customize the name of this file, use the :ref:`art-filename` config option. To disable automatic art downloading, just put this in your configuration file:: fetchart: auto: no Manually Fetching Album Art --------------------------- Use the ``fetchart`` command to download album art after albums have already been imported:: $ beet fetchart [-f] [query] By default, the command will only look for album art when the album doesn't already have it; the ``-f`` or ``--force`` switch makes it search for art regardless. If you specify a query, only matching albums will be processed; otherwise, the command processes every album in your library. .. _image-resizing: Image Resizing -------------- A maximum image width can be configured as ``maxwidth`` to downscale fetched images if they are too big. The resize operation reduces image width to ``maxwidth`` pixels. The height is recomputed so that the aspect ratio is preserved. Beets can resize images using `PIL`_, `ImageMagick`_, or a server-side resizing proxy. If either PIL or ImageMagick is installed, beets will use those; otherwise, it falls back to the resizing proxy. If the resizing proxy is used, no resizing is performed for album art found on the filesystem---only downloaded art is resized. Server-side resizing can also be slower than local resizing, so consider installing one of the two backends for better performance. When using ImageMagic, beets looks for the ``convert`` executable in your path. On some versions of Windows, the program can be shadowed by a system-provided ``convert.exe``. On these systems, you may need to modify your ``%PATH%`` environment variable so that ImageMagick comes first or use PIL instead. .. _PIL: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ .. _ImageMagick: http://www.imagemagick.org/ Album Art Sources ----------------- Currently, this plugin searches for art in the local filesystem as well as on the Cover Art Archive, Amazon, and AlbumArt.org (in that order). When looking for local album art, beets checks for image files located in the same folder as the music files you're importing. Beets prefers to use an image file whose name contains "cover", "front", "art", "album" or "folder", but in the absence of well-known names, it will use any image file in the same folder as your music files. You can change the list of filename keywords using the ``cover_names`` config option. Or, to use *only* filenames containing the keywords and not fall back to any image, set ``cautious`` to true. For example:: fetchart: cautious: true cover_names: front back By default, remote (Web) art sources are only queried if no local art is found in the filesystem. To query remote sources every time, set the ``remote_priority`` configuration option to true, which will cause beets to prefer remote cover art over any local image files. When you choose to apply changes during an import, beets will search for art as described above. For "as-is" imports (and non-autotagged imports using the ``-A`` flag), beets only looks for art on the local filesystem. Embedding Album Art ------------------- This plugin fetches album art but does not embed images into files' tags. To do that, use the :doc:`/plugins/embedart`. (You'll want to have both plugins enabled.)