I personally do not really care if mp3 files on my computer have the proper album covers associated with them. I do however know a few people who want their mp3 collection to be in perfect condition, which includes having album cover art for all of their mp3 files. Cover Retriever is a free open [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Automatic Album Cover Tool
Adding album covers to mp3 files can be helpful for identification purposes. Some music applications and mp3 players offer modes to flip through the music collection by album cover for instance, and a mp3 collection with many missing covers reduces the user’s experience. Getting the cover artwork in the files is however not always as [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Check Music Collections For Missing Cover Art With CovArt Ops
Many modern media players like Winamp, Windows Media Player or iTunes display cover art and other information about the music that is currently playing in their interfaces. The same is true for cell phones and hardware mp3 players that usually also come with that option. There are however a few problems related to cover art [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Album Art Downloader
Samer reviewed a wonderful software at his website Freeware Genius today called Album Art Downloader and I would like to take the opportunity to review it as well. When I looked at my mp3 collection the other day I realized that several songs were not properly tagged and that some cover artwork was missing as [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Harmony uses iTunes to play music without iTunes
I don’t know a lot of users who use the iTunes software by Apple to play music. Some use it to manage their music, subscribe to podcasts or purchase music from the iTunes store. Harmony is an experimental music player that is using the information from iTunes and the so called Coverflow effect to create [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Print Covers using Undercover XP
Burning CDs or DVDs has a distinctive disadvantage over purchased media. The self created audio, video or data CDs and DVDs have no initial cover artwork. This makes them rather unattractive if you want to give them to someone else or put them into a rack. It probably does not matter if you just use them to backup files or burn one use audio or video CDs and DVDs but I think it does make a difference for media that you want to keep for a longer time. The key to create great front and back covers is a program that makes it as easy as possible to do so.