![]() The greatest thing I discovered, also in middle school, was the Columbia Record and Tape Club (CRTC). In middle school, I made mixtapes that I recorded on a boombox off the radio (yes you read that correctly, I recorded tapes off of a boombox, I'm that old). The turntable and all the albums made their way to my room and never left. Eventually, I took over, and "appropriated" my father's record collection. That was the beginning of my obsession with music that has lasted me the rest of my life. Mostly soul, funk, and R&B, but he also liked The Beatles and David Bowie. See, my father constantly played music in my house growing up. I remember being annoyed that I couldn't make the sounds I heard on records and keep the beat. I played it constantly, but where most kids would just bang about without any rhyme or reason I, on the other hand, was really trying to teach myself how to play drums. The drum set I got a little later, when I was about five or six and very soon my parents realized the mistake they made. The record player didn't play real records, just toy ones that had crude grooves and notches that played music much like a music box when you set the "stylus" on it. One was a toy record player and the other was a toy drum set. See, some of my earliest memories growing up are of my two favorite toys when I was a toddler. I've always been really into music, and the thought of getting to flip through a famous artist's record collection was really exciting to me. When I found out that the display was going to be an entire wall of 352 records and I was going to be one of the preparators to work on it, I was super thrilled. I can't guarantee uptime nor give permission for you to hit my server from your own apps so please host the code above on your own server if you wish to do anything like that.When I first heard that Yoshitomo Nara's LACMA retrospective was going to have an installation of some of the records the artist listens to while he works, I was intrigued. NOTE TO DEVELOPERS: If you want to do any automation or hit the API I've written directly, please consider getting the source code I've made publicly available on GitHub and hosting it yourself. Please do not email me asking to add extra artwork as it doesn't work that way - this is just a quick way of getting artwork from iTunes. it's a film that hasn't been released yet or is a network exclusive like a Netflix show) then you won't find it here. If the film / TV show you are looking for is not available on iTunes (i.e. IMPORTANT: This website gets artwork directly from iTunes. As of March 2016, you can also do this for albums just select 'Apple ID (Album)' from the dropdown list. For example, if the iTunes URL is you would put 314918278 as the id (the country must be correct as well for this to work). To fix this, copy the URL from iTunes and paste the numbers after 'id' into the 'Apple ID (Movie)' section. Some movies weren't being found even though they could be viewed in iTunes. With app icons, there is only one artwork link which will give you a 1024x1024px file just click on the app icon. It seems to depend on the country and studio involved but you generally need a special key to get that high res artwork and you can only get that key by purchasing something from iTunes (and then it only lasts a short while). However, the high resolution does not always work, particularly for iBooks, Movies, and Albums (albums are now working thanks to a tip from John Leustek). The high resolution can be anything I've found instances of movie artwork at 1600x2400px and TV shows up to 2400x2400px. The standard resolution will generally be 600圆00px and is the size that is displayed inline. I've included two links at the top of each piece of artwork standard resolution and high resolution. To find artwork, simply type the name below and choose the media type and country from the dropdowns. I've added these in addition to incorporating album artwork and app icons from the App Store. However, it became a lot more popular than I expected and requests were made to add movie and iBook artwork. This project started out as a simple tool for using the iTunes Search API to download 600圆00px artwork for TV shows. There is also a whole host of additional artwork including ultrawide banners, logos, and parallax files. NEW: I've created a new tool, Apple TV Shows & Movies Artwork Finder, to support the new 16:9 aspect ratio used in the TV app in iOS 12.3, macOS Catalina, and Apple TV. NEW: You can now search for Apple Music playlists, albums and stations with my new Apple Music Artwork Finder which includes uncompressed artwork and animated artwork where applicable. Want to say thanks for the artwork? Sign up to my free newsletter which will give you exclusive updates about this artwork finder as well as early access to my other projects.
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