Save Artwork to a Folder
Copy the album artwork of a selected track as aJPEG or PNG file to a specified folder.
This hack shows how to export the artwork from an iTunes track as a graphic file and save it to a selected folder, so you can start stockpiling your artwork for safekeeping or for use in other applications.
The Code
This script exports the artwork of the single selected track as a graphic file to a user-specified folder:
tell application "iTunes" -- get a reference to selected track if selection is not {} and (count items of selection) is 1 then set theTrack to item 1 of selection else my alert_user_and_cancel("Please select one track.") end if -- does selected track have artwork? if class of theTrack is not file track or ¬ artworks of theTrack is {} then my alert_user_and_cancel("Selected track has no Artwork.") end if -- choose folder to save file to set artFolder to (choose folder with prompt ¬ "Where do you want to save Artwork?") as string -- get data and format of track's artwork try set artData to (data of artwork 1 of theTrack) as picture set artFormat to (format of artwork 1 of theTrack) as string if artFormat contains "JPEG" then set extension to ".jpg" else if artFormat contains "PNG" then set extension to ".png" end if -- create name for new file set theName to (artist of theTrack & " - " & album of theTrack) -- create paths for files set tempArtFile to (artFolder ...
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