Displaying Album Art with DX Player?
Is It Possible to Display Album Art with DX Player?
Monday, July 7, 2008 by 7evier | Discussion: DesktopX Tutorials
Is It Possible to Display Album Art Stored on your PC with DX Player Like Windows Media Player? 
CaptainBeaker
Reply #2 Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:32 AM
Reply #2 Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:32 AM
If I'm not mistaken, the three examples above reference and external image file in order to display the album art. Does anyone know of a method to extract the art directly from the currently playing file?
ZubaZ
Reply #3 Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:57 AM
Reply #3 Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:57 AM
I don't think the album image is stored in the playing file, is it?
Vad_M
Reply #4 Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:40 PM
Yes. It may be stored (for example into the mp3 file through Winamp). But this increases file size on the disk so I never use this option.
Pose yesterday I have done a code that searches the Album Art image in the playing file directory and then show it on the player display (this is not a DX player...). If I haven't the corresponding image I find it in the Google/Images, then download, rename to Folder.jpg or Cover.jpeg and copy into the folder with tracks. Thats all.
As well I have worked on a script that reads/writes ID3, Vorbis and some other tags. So I have a lot worked with the binary data. On this reason I understand what you want and how make this. However I have not free time... So just an idea:
1. Learn how looks the included *.jpg file in the mp3 binary stream (use Google).
2. Make a script by using ADODB.Stream object which will read your file as a binary stream (or Scripting.FileSystemObject (FSO) to read it as a text stream). - Google again!
3. Make a function that will find the included *.jpg in the mp3, then extract it and save to the any temporary folder (like temp.jpg for example).
4. Make one more simple function which will add this image into the player.
That's all at the moment.
Reply #4 Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:40 PM
I don't think the album image is stored in the playing file, is it?
Yes. It may be stored (for example into the mp3 file through Winamp). But this increases file size on the disk so I never use this option.
Does anyone know of a method to extract the art directly from the currently playing file?
Pose yesterday I have done a code that searches the Album Art image in the playing file directory and then show it on the player display (this is not a DX player...). If I haven't the corresponding image I find it in the Google/Images, then download, rename to Folder.jpg or Cover.jpeg and copy into the folder with tracks. Thats all.
As well I have worked on a script that reads/writes ID3, Vorbis and some other tags. So I have a lot worked with the binary data. On this reason I understand what you want and how make this. However I have not free time... So just an idea:
1. Learn how looks the included *.jpg file in the mp3 binary stream (use Google).
2. Make a script by using ADODB.Stream object which will read your file as a binary stream (or Scripting.FileSystemObject (FSO) to read it as a text stream). - Google again!
3. Make a function that will find the included *.jpg in the mp3, then extract it and save to the any temporary folder (like temp.jpg for example).
4. Make one more simple function which will add this image into the player.
That's all at the moment.
Vad_M
Reply #5 Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:18 PM
Reply #5 Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:18 PM
I HAVE ALREADY DONE A SCRIPT WHICH EXTRACTS ALBUM ART FROM MUSIC FILES!!!! 
It works fine but not with DX player... Let me know if you need this code. 
It works fine but not with DX player... Let me know if you need this code. 
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