libcoverart

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The Cover Art Archive Library (libcoverart), is a development library geared towards developers who wish to add Cover Art capabilities to their applications. The library supports Linux and Mac OS X. The data is mostly gathered from the Cover Art Archive.

Documentation

For details on how to use this library, please take a look at the API documentation.

Download

libcoverart-1.0.0.tar.gz (58 KB) (MD5: 856d83a4e57a2325c168eb979b9c00d8)

Source code

The source code is available on GitHub and can be downloaded with:

git clone git://github.com/metabrainz/libcoverart.git

License

The Cover Art Archive Library is licensed under the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License).

Alternatives

Official alternatives

• CoverArtArchive, our Perl library (CPAN Distribution)

Third party alternatives

• C#/Mono/.NET - MetaBrainz.MusicBrainz.CoverArt (NuGet Package)
• Go - gocaa
• Java - coverartarchive-api artifact, providing CoverArtArchiveClient class, developed by Last.fm
• PHP - php-cover-art-archive-api