Questions tagged [artwork]
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Is there any free unlimited album artwork search API service?
Google's custom search API has a limitation up to 100 queries per day. That is far less than what I expected. I want to add that artwork-search function to my app. Thanks a lot.

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Displaying Artwork for .MP3 file
I am trying to currently display the album artwork for a locally stored .MP3 track in an ImageView. Does anyone know how to fetch this artwork in Swift in order to accomplish this?
I have found this solution (iOS AVFoundation: How do I fetch…

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problem with 512x512 app icon in iTunes Connect
I'm uploading my app to App Store and I created it in iTunes Connect.
I just uploaded my 512x512px icon and then I opened Version Summary page to verify my information...
I've got a set of icon that just have gloss effect. In Version Summary page I…

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Get iTunes Artwork for Current Song with ScriptingBridge
I have been trying to figure out how to get the iTunes artwork for the currently playing song with scripting bridge. I have gotten to a point where it works for some songs, but for others, I get a SIGABRT. I'm not sure what the issue could be, so…

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MPMediaItemArtwork is null while cover is available in iTunes
The UIImage "image" is always empty ("null") though the cover is shown in the music app by apple.
in iOS 7 it works fine, but with iOS 8 I get no cover.
Whats wrong with my code, or what has changed in iOS 8?
-(UITableViewCell…

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Using Swift to display title of currently playing .MP3
I was wondering if there was a straight forward way of displaying the image and title of the currently playing MP3 file my music player is playing. My code is as follows and is very simple for this example. I am only wanting to test using one .MP3…

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MPNowPlayingInfoCenter : What is the best way to set MPMediaItemArtwork from an Url?
All methods I found to set MPMediaItemArtwork of MPNowPlayingInfoCenter are with local images.
MPMediaItemArtwork *albumArt = [[MPMediaItemArtwork alloc] initWithImage: [UIImage imageNamed:@"myimage"];
But I need to set this from an…

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ID3 Album Art / Cover Tag Field
What is the field name for covers / album arts in id3 tags?
For eg. :
Title : title - TT2 - TIT2
Artist : artist - TP1 - TPE1
Album : album - TAL - TALB
Cover: ? - ? - ?
I hope somebody can help me...
Thx in advance!

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What's the Best Way to Support the Multiple Art Sizes Currently Used by iOS?
Currently iOS supports three different art sizes: art for the 480x320 original iPhone screen, art for the hi-res 960x640 iPhone 4 screen, and art for the 1024x768 iPad screen, which in my experience is usually not the same as for the hi-res screen…

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Getting artwork from current track in Applescript
I'm trying to make a script to pull the artwork of the currently playing track and write it to a file. I've checked out a few guides but none of them seem to work, any tips?
tell application "iTunes"
write artwork 1 to "path:to:desktop" of…

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I want to set metadata to audio recording done in .m4a format in iOS
can any one help, i need to set the metadata to audio recording done by application.
I have a image which i need to set in the artWork of the recording.
Thanks in advance.

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Error getting artwork for current song
Grabbing album art for current song and using it to change a certain imageView.image generates an error, but no longer crashes. (It did before because I left out the if (!artwork) error handling. Eheh.)
This method:
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Does the iOS SDK come with a library of artwork/icons?
For example, sort of like visual studio does? Perhaps for gestures like pinch/swipe/etc?

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Releasing resources - artwork tag of TagLib file
In my C# application I'm creating tags for mp3 files. For this I use the TagLib library/extension.
One of the tags is the artwork. I can successfully add the artwork to the mp3's tag by using:
TagLib.File f = TagLib.File.Create(path);
IPicture[]…

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How to set artwork to an iTunes song using NSApplescript in Xcode?
there are some similars questions here but none involves NSApplescript.
I'm trying to add iTunes artwork to a selected track, my code is:
set newFile to add aFileName as POSIX file to ipod_lib
set current_track to newFile
set jpegFilename to…

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