There are a lot of album art downloaders utilizing Amazon, but none of them seem to get it right. As a developer of an art downloader, what you should do is pretend the user has an infinite number of albums...not 10, not 100, not 1K, but *infinite*.

This would mean three things:

1) The user would not have time to click, drag, view, or wait for each image for each album. The software should have a "trust me" setting where in the application can be launched and without *any* user action other than hitting the "start" button, album art is automatically downloaded and copied into iTunes.

2) Instead of grabbing the metadata for the entire library and batch processing, it should do one album at a time. Ideally it should read in the library and keep a list of what has been fetched so that it can quit (or crash) and then resume from where it left off. Libraries as big as mine might take weeks to complete, so it's really important that it can quit at any time and pick up from where it left off. Just to be clear, what I'm saying is that it should make a list of all of the albums, but then process them one at a time.

3) It should first check to see if there is already album art. There should be a preference setting to either (a) Replace all existing album art (b) Leave existing album art, or (c) Ask each time.

Now I know that it's a problem that often Amazon returns multiple images for an album or gets an album completely wrong, but in my testing of fetchers, I've found that they get roughly 90% correct...which is better than nothing, and better than the 10 bazillion hours it would take to use any existing apps.

For extra credit what one could do is have a log that you could *scroll* through and see the results...it's important to be able to scroll, and not have to click through each album. Think of it as a spreadsheet with tall rows showing artist, album name, jpg1, jpg2, ... all on the same row for the album. As one scrolls through, jpg1 would be the one that was copied to iTunes, but clicking on any of the other images in that row would copy that image over the one that had been chosen.

For extra, extra credit...it would also combine lyric functionality.