SACAD: Smart Automatic Cover Art Downloader

SACAD is a multi platform command line tool to download album covers without manual intervention, ideal for integration in scripts, audio players, etc.

SACAD also provides a second command line tool, sacad_r, to scan a music library, read metadata from audio tags, and download missing covers automatically, optionally embedding the image into audio audio files.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

• Can target specific image size, and find results for high resolution covers.
• Supports JPEG and PNG formats.
• Customizable output: save image along with the audio files / in a different directory named by artist/album / embed cover in audio files…
• Supports the following cover sources:
  • Deezer.
  • Discogs.
  • Last.fm.
  • Itunes.
• Smart sorting algorithm to select THE best cover for a given query, using several factors: source reliability, image format, image size, image similarity with reference cover, etc.
• Automatically crunch images with optipng, oxipng or jpegoptim (can save 30% of filesize without any loss of quality, great for portable players).
• Cache search results locally for faster future search.
• Do everything to avoid getting blocked by the sources: hide user-agent and automatically take care of rate limiting.
• Automatically convert/resize image if needed.
• Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Website: github.com/desbma/sacad
Support:
Developer: desbma
License: Mozilla Public License Version 2.0

SACAD is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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