Fetch Art for iTunes 2.5.0

Aric Freisen is now the developer of Fetch Art, Yoel Inbar (the original developer, now busy with graduate school) has graciously given the project over to Aric.

Fetch Art for iTunes is a small program that will fetch album art for one or more songs using Amazon's XML interface, help you preview the art that was found, and add the art you want to iTunes.

Fetch Art for iTunes is controlled through the iTunes Script menu: once it is installed, album art can be downloaded by selecting one or more songs in iTunes and choosing 'Fetch Art' from the Script menu.

Requirements:

· iTunes 7.0 or later.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added support for Amazon's new Web Services. As of August 15 2009, any version of Fetch Art prior to 2.5.0 will stop working as Amazon changed how their servers worked. This requires encrypting part of the call, which does slow each call down a little bit over the previous version.
· Added more logic in constructing the query to Amazon to improve search accuracy and speed. It can often find album artwork now even if the album name is spelled wrong and it requires fewer calls to the server to find it.
· Added a debug logging mode. This mode is off by default, but when activated will save a detailed log that you can send to me for support if you are having problems.
· Added an option to turn off (it's off by default) extended searching. Previously Fetch Art would try to find art for any album even if it found the wrong art. Now that level of searching is off by default. It may not find as much are, but accuracy should improve. You can turn it back on in the preferences if you like.
· Added an automatic check for new versions.
· Improved error handling.