gHacks technology news » album-cover-art http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:10:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Add Album art to your mp3 collection http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/26/add-album-art-to-your-mp3-collection/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/26/add-album-art-to-your-mp3-collection/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:25:46 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/26/add-album-art-to-your-mp3-collection/ Many mp3 players support album art, showing it to the user in the display. Several software players support it as well, for instance the Itunes Control plugin that I wrote about earlier this week. I don’t know a single application however that can process a entire music library automatically and add album art to it.

Apple’s iTunes does it almost. You can select an option in iTunes to download album art of all selected songs using the iTunes store. That downloads lots of artworks, the main problem however is that this artwork is not added to the mp3 file directly but to a database only. If you use another application like Windows Media Player or XBMC the artwork will not be displayed.

That means that I won’t be using iTunes to add album art to my mp3 collection. The best way that I discovered is to use Media Monkey. It’s semi-automatic. You select all mp3s of an album, right-click the selection and select Auto Tag From Web or press CTRL + L instead.

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It can take some time if you have a large collection of mp3 files but it is definitely worth it. The process does not only add album art to the mp3 collection but also tags the files properly. It takes about 10 seconds per album.

I sorted my collection by album in Media Monkey at the beginning and began to work the mp3 collection from top to bottom selecting all songs of an album each time.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/26/add-album-art-to-your-mp3-collection/feed/ 5 Free Album Art Cover Downloader http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/15/free-album-art-cover-downloader/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/15/free-album-art-cover-downloader/#comments Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:14:25 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/15/free-album-art-cover-downloader/ Many portable media players and software players support album cover art which is displayed when a song is played from within the player. Most players unfortunately do not have a feature that automatically searches for and downloads album cover art for the album s that you have stored on your computer. One of the tools that can help you if you like to have album cover art displayed is Album Cover Art Downloader.

Album Cover Art Downloader can be downloaded for Windows, various Linux distributions and as a source code if you want to compile it for yourself. It displays a list of albums that are stored on your computer and offers the functionality to search for album art for that album. It searches Amazon, Buy.com, Yahoo and Walmart for images and displays them in a sidebar. You may pick the best image that fits and it will be automatically downloaded and added to all mp3 files that belong to that album.

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