where can i download album cover art?

Jul 6, 2004 at 12:42 PM Thread Starter Post #1 of 15

adhoc

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as title.

basically i'm converting my entire collection to FLAC and well, it would be nice if i could take advantage of winxp's 'thumbnail' function and find songs via looking at album art. much prettier too.
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any directions to finding tracklistings in .txt format would be much appreciated too - but then again if 'album art' includes the back view then that would be superfluous..
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Jul 6, 2004 at 1:32 PM Post #2 of 15
I just used Google image search for many of them. For the ones I couldnt find with that, a google web search normally brought up some link with a picture in.

The end result looks something like this
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mymusic.jpg
 
Jul 6, 2004 at 2:25 PM Post #3 of 15
Looks nice! How do you get the pictures to appear? I know you can do it by going to directory properties, but is there a better and faster way?
I tried ripping with WMP9 to lossless wma and some cd covers were appearing automatically. I don't know where the images are stored - can't see any jpeg files. Unfortunately WMP is not good for ripping and I don't think EAC or plextools gets pictures automatically.
 
Jul 6, 2004 at 2:58 PM Post #4 of 15
you would right click on a blank part of your folder, and under 'view', select 'thumbnail'. now if you have only ONE picture in each folder, it will look like pbirkett's. otherwise up to 6 pictures will be squashed into the folder image.
 
Jul 7, 2004 at 11:04 AM Post #6 of 15
Thanks Paul for the tip, I googled all the covers for my albums and now my music folder looks great! It's a lot easier to find something to listen to when you can see the cover, instead of just browsing through some dull file and folder listings. You get that "oh that's what I wanna listen to!" -feeling when you see the cover.
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Jul 7, 2004 at 11:13 AM Post #7 of 15
Not only that, but I dunno if you've noticed that if you click the folder and then click "Play Selection" on the left, it opens up in your fave player, and not just WMP, as I originally thought it would do.

One thing I have noticed though, is that if you have a folder of say, Musepack files, and you have an M3U playlist, in that folder, it will open only the M3U if you click the folder and click "Play Selection". If however, you have MP3 files and an M3U file, for some reason it opens them all twice. Just FYI. I havent tried with other formats.
 
Jul 7, 2004 at 11:23 AM Post #8 of 15
Yup, I have noticed that easy-play-feature, although I haven't tested if it "doubles" the playlist when both mp3 and m3u files are in the same folder. I have either mp3/mpc-files with m3u-playlist in the same folder or Ape-files with cue. I have to test how those will work.
 
Jul 7, 2004 at 4:16 PM Post #9 of 15
adhoc, try using foobar2000's built in album list and freedb plugins. You can sort by either artiste, album, genre, year. But of course you need to tag your files properly and freedb is very useful.

BTW freedb only works when you select all tracks in a cd album, not on individual tracks.
 
Jul 7, 2004 at 9:43 PM Post #10 of 15
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sorry, forgot to google before i opened my mouth.
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Jul 8, 2004 at 1:27 PM Post #12 of 15
Quote:

Originally Posted by SBomm
Amazon has most album covers.
Just right click Save As on the picture.



most album covers from amazon have a small 'X% off' graphic at the lower right hand corner.
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Jul 10, 2004 at 10:28 AM Post #15 of 15
Quote:

Originally Posted by MisterX
Why download the images manually when there is software that will do the same thing?
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http://www.victorland.com/slimp3/

Or click here to download the Uber version.
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It installs as a shell extension..... in windows explorer you just right click your music folder and choose populate covers.



It says you have to install perl software and extensions manually!
 

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