gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » covers http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:53:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mp3 Cover Downloader Reviewhttp://www.ghacks.net/2011/01/30/mp3-cover-downloader-review/ http://www.ghacks.net/2011/01/30/mp3-cover-downloader-review/#comments Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:43:54 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=39411 Cover art is used by many devices and applications to improve identification of albums and songs. Collectors on the other hand want to make sure that their mp3 collection is complete and covers are obviously a part of that.

Creevity Mp3 Cover Downloader is a free software for Windows that makes it dead easy to add covers to mp3 files. The program scans the My Music folder on startup and displays covers for the first mp3 file found in it. It is possible to browse for another folder in case the music collection is stored elsewhere.

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Information about the active song are displayed at the top along with controls to play it and switch to another one stored in the folder. Mp3 Cover Downloader downloads six covers automatically from the Internet and displays them in its interface. A click on any of the covers and the selection of Apply adds the cover to the mp3 file.

A prompt like the one shown on the screenshot below is displayed if a cover is already present in the mp3 file.

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A click on load other covers loads additional covers from the web. This is handy if the six covers listed are not matching the mp3 file.

Left and right arrows on the keyboard, and left and right icons in the header are used to switch between mp3 files stored in the active folder.

Mp3 Cover Downloader is a fast responsive program to add or change mp3 album covers. It unfortunately misses a feature to add a cover to all mp3 files of a folder which means that it takes longer than it should to add the same cover to all mp3 files of a folder.

Mp3 Cover Downloader is available at the developer website over at Creevity. It tested without problems on a 64-bit Windows 7 Professional test system. Developers state that the application is compatible with all 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows from Windows XP on.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2011/01/30/mp3-cover-downloader-review/feed/ 5 Print Covers using Undercover XPhttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/17/print-covers-using-undercover-xp/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/17/print-covers-using-undercover-xp/#comments Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:27:20 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/17/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.

create covers Undercover XP is such a freeware that makes it very easy to create covers in the correct size for many different types of media. This includes covers for CDs and DVDs, DVD boxes, inlays, Playstation backs and Digital Pictures.

Just add a image in formats such as jpg, bmp, gif or png to Undercover XP and the tool will automatically resize the image to the right format for the selected media.

Undercover XP comes equipped with a format editor that makes it easy to add new formats for media that you own. Just add a new format with the exact sized that you want it to be.

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