[John E Woven]

Amazon's nice.

 

[sinus1982]

i don't have to get the artwork. it comes free with CDs and records. Imagine!

 

[SR-71Panorama]

I've given up on amazon. They were mediocre to begin with, now many if not all have been coded to have a large white boarder around them. The time spent cropping in photoshop is better spent scanning my own cover art from the original disc, imo.

So now I scan.

 

[krmathis]

iTunes Store and Google

 

[Uncle Erik]

I use a Google Image Search then copy the best looking result into iTunes.

 

[virometal]

I added some bookmarks off this thread. While yet another Google image user, I"ll add Albumart.org - CD and DVD cover searchengine as another reference site.

 

[in_utero]

Quote:

Originally Posted by SR-71Panorama /img/forum/go_quote.gif I've given up on amazon. They were mediocre to begin with, now many if not all have been coded to have a large white boarder around them. The time spent cropping in photoshop is better spent scanning my own cover art from the original disc, imo. So now I scan.

That's what's leading me to scanning; I'm a huge punk fan, and nearly every compilation I get isn't on iTunes at all, and the ones that are on Amazon have that ridiculous white border.

 

[Manny Calavera]

Quote:

Originally Posted by FarFromCentre /img/forum/go_quote.gif Just curious on where you guys get your album artwork for your CD's, I get mine at buy.com, which is normally 500 x 500 pixels. Anybody know a better place perhaps? I can't really scan mine as my scanner is pretty bad and everything it scans looks grainy.

Most of the places mentioned,the artwork they have is too low res for me.

I scan it myself when I have the chance,I bought a Canon scanner on sale for 49 Cdn.

 

[scompton]

I like this thread. Finding art has been a royal pain for me. My first try is always iTunes. Sometimes, iTunes doesn't work, even when it has the album. I then go to AMG and look at the sites it lists that have the CD for sale and pick the best of those. If that doesn't work, I search the internet or scan. I'm going to try some of the suggestions mentioned here. I have a few CDs I've never found artwork for and I haven't scanned yet.

 

[Inks]

rateyourmusic.com has album art with good res, tons of them

 

[Akathisia]

Quote:

Originally Posted by in_utero /img/forum/go_quote.gif That's what's leading me to scanning; I'm a huge punk fan, and nearly every compilation I get isn't on iTunes at all, and the ones that are on Amazon have that ridiculous white border.

So how do you tell iTunes to use the artwork you have saved? For some reason even though I have all the album art for all of my CD's, iTunes won't use it.

 

[scompton]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Akathisia /img/forum/go_quote.gif So how do you tell iTunes to use the artwork you have saved? For some reason even though I have all the album art for all of my CD's, iTunes won't use it.

I do get info and paste the art work into the files.

So far, for my long out of print discs, I'm not having luck with the suggestions on this thread. Even for some stuff that's only been out of print for a few years.

 

[Andrew_WOT]

SlothRadio: CD / DVD Album Art Cover Search

 

[terrymx]

I scan it from my real cd cover, lol.

As for mp3 I bought, I google it and find the largest image, if that don't work I try cdcovers.cc. When you use your software to update your mp3 tags, it can also receive image from the free online database.

Itunes album art? lol. is that like 150x150? It should be made manditory that they include higher res image in embeded in the mp3 or something.

 

[choomanchoo]

Quote:

Originally Posted by sinus1982 /img/forum/go_quote.gif i don't have to get the artwork. it comes free with CDs and records. Imagine!

I'm surprised no one has complained about your avvy