Auto assign folder icon as folder.jpg

back in the dark ages (when i used widows), i had all my music separated into different folder for each album. In each folder i would put the cover, calling it folder.jpg, and windows would assign the folder icon as that jpg.
now, how can i assign each folder's folder.jpg as the icon for each folder, so that in Finder the folder icon is the cover?
naturally, this would need to be done in an automated manner, as i have thousands of albums.

I've played around with this a little (seemed like a fun task to work on).
I'm not sure what the best way to give these instructions is, so if you need more help with any step, please let me know.
WARNING: I've tested this as best I can, but there may be issues. I advise making a backup first and doing a test run.
1) Install osxutils (I used macports to do this)
2) Open Automator and create a new workflow with the following items in order:
Ask for Finder items select Type: Folders
Get folder Contents with Repeat for sub folders selected
Filter Finder Items with File Type is JPEG
Add Thumbnail Icon to Image Files
Run Shell Script
In the shell script you want to pass the input as arguments and paste the following into the text window
for f in $@
do
dir=`echo $f | sed 's/\(.)/./\1/'`
/opt/local/bin/seticon $f $dir
done
3) Save as application and run.
Some things to note:
You may need to change the location of seticon in the shell script if you install osxutils using a method other than macports.
This script adds thumbnails to your jpeg files, this seems like a harmeless side effect to me, but you should know that it is happening.
If you want to remove an icon, get info on it, select the icon and press the backspace key.

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