Download album art from internet in an android application

Question

I know the artist and trackname for a song, but I am unsure of what service or how to download album art for the track.

I believe iTunes and Amazon both offer services but I am unsure of how to integrate these services, any links or suggestions are appreciated.

Answer 1

To use Amazon you'll need to sign up as a developer for their public web services.

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html

This is mainly just to get the access key that you'll need for making your calls to their web service API.

You'll need to do a product search using the artist and album name, this will return an ASIN number. Once you have that number you can build the URL to the actual album art, ie:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/*ASIN goes here*.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg