shadowpower / albumcoverextractor

Extract album cover picture from your media files.

AlbumCoverExtractor

Extract album cover picture from your media files, you can also use it for your music player.

It is a C++ Libary, can also be used as a terminal tool.

API

Use the spID3 namespace to extract the album cover in MPEG, and use the spFLAC namespace for FLAC.

Because the code is written like C, it can be easily changed to C language.

This library will define unsigned char type as byte.

// First you need to include these files
#include "ID3v2Pic.h"
#include "FlacPic.h"

/*
Read the album cover picture data from the media file
Parameter 1: File path
Return: true if successful, false if no picture data or format is incorrect.
*/
bool loadPictureData(const char *inFilePath);


/*
Get the picture data pointer
Return: Pointer to picture data starting point
*/
byte *getPictureDataPtr();


/*
Get the picture data size
Return: The number of bytes of image data
*/
int getPictureLength();


/*
Generate an image file extension
Return: Pointer to the character array that stores the file extension
*/
char *getPictureFormat();


/*
Write out the picture data to a file
Parameter 1: File path
Return: true if successful
*/
bool writePictureDataToFile(const char *outFilePath);


/*
Extract album cover from the media file
Parameter 1: Input media file path
Parameter 2: output image file path
Return: true if successful
*/
bool extractPicture(const char *inFilePath, const char *outFilePath);

/* free the memory */
void freePictureData();

Terminal tool

Supports MPEG and FLAC media files.

Extract images from media file like this:

ID3v2Pic media.mp3

You will get the picture file, name is output.(extension) .

Of course, you can also specify the output file name:

ID3v2Pic media.mp3 cover.jpg