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A better way to get cover art into iTunes database
Authored by: spl23 on Jan 18, '08 02:24:25AM

Just tested this with iTunes 7.6. There seems to be a small change in the protocol between your machine and the ITMS - when you run the cover art server and ask iTunes to get artwork, iTunes shows an error message telling you that a secure connection to the server could not be established, and asks if you still want to continue. If you do continue, everything seems to work as before - presumably iTunes is now doing some form of authentication to do with movie rentals, and I'd guess that will not be easy to replicate locally, so for now, you just have to ignore the warning message and carry on.

Should Apple ever enforce this secure connection for all transfers, this very useful little program is likely to break permanently...



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A better way to get cover art into iTunes database
Authored by: spl23 on Jul 10, '08 03:51:23AM

Just to keep this up to date - I've just downloaded iTunes 7.7, and I'm sorry to report that it has broken CoverArtServer again. Presumably the protocol has been changed - CAS sees a request from iTunes, but it either doesn't know how to respond, or the response isn't what iTunes is expecting any more.

If I get bored, I'll install the packet sniffer and see if I can see a fix, but for now, if you want to use CAS, stick with iTunes 7.6.



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