Get Data from the Internet

[SeVeReD]

What a nice feature!!
I recently bought "Kinks, The - Soap Opera" from http://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=9624albums and downloaded the 96/24 flac they offer.  For the jpg they only offered a 185*185 cover :/ , (along with some nice pictures/all album info... in pdf format ... anyone know how I can pull a pdf image and make a jpg off it? ... is this not allowed?...anyway); so I thought, "What a nice time to try Peters' "Get Data form the Internet" and it found lots and I saved two 500*500 .jpg yea.

Some thoughts.

Would there be a way to limit the search to say 500*500 .jpg and above? of course being able to switch back to an all image search if nothing of quality is found.
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Could we add some other sites in the search?
http://www.discogs.com/
Discogs usually has some very nice album pics (better quality, resolution and color than amazon, and usually someone has upped back covers and inside photos)  This is where I went before I bought a scanner.

http://www.walmart.com/
although I detest their business practices, they seem to usually have better 500*500 quality than amazon or sometimes have things that amazon doesn't, (anyone else notice that amazons mp3 500*500 photos are only ok, grainy and color blasted, they do in a pinch, but usually I'm looking for customer added stuff)

anyway, nice convenient feature Peter.

[Calibrator]

... anyone know how I can pull a pdf image and make a jpg off it? ...

Try doing a "print screen" function and dump the resultant buffered image into a program such as PhotoShop and cull around what you want, then save as a jpeg. I've used this technique to good effect on PC's I don't have a full Adobe Acrobat editor installed. To get a bigger image you could try zooming in a little initially with Acrobat reader, but you're ultimately limited by the original size of the pdf file containing your folder art.

Good luck and let us know how you go.

Cheers,

Russ

[PeterSt]

Dave,

Limit the picture (sizes) to a given amount is obvious of course. But then I though to give this a lower priority at the time I created it.

Obtaining pictures from random other sites is not necessarily possible, because the site concerned has to provide a "web service" for it. I didn't look into it, but discogs would have no reason to "publish" this, and Walmart will be too small on music really. But again, I didn't look into it.