//! The main difference between using album_art_manager_instance and calling album_art_extractor methods directly is that
//! album_art_manager_instance will fall back to returning pictures found in the folder containing the specified media file
//! in case requested album art entries can't be extracted from the media file itself.

pfc::string8 path;
...
abort_callback_dummy abort;
album_art_manager_instance_ptr aam = static_api_ptr_t<album_art_manager>()->instantiate();
album_art_data_ptr pdata;
aam->open(path.get_ptr(), abort);
try
{
    pdata = aam->query(album_art_ids::cover_front, abort);
}
catch(...)
{
}