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