What's the easiest way to update album art?

I don't have the album art for most of my music, and I don't have time to go find and download images for all of my album. Any suggestions?

Chris B

Posted 2009-07-28T18:43:50.173

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Don't use album art? Personally, I never look at it anyway, and it saves some space on your mp3 player (sure, not much, but over 20,000 songs it adds up. – Sean – 2009-07-28T18:50:03.060

Well that is a good idea for the mp3 player, but I'm more interested in having it for my Media Center. – Chris B – 2009-07-28T18:56:43.220

1@Sean, you don't have to embed album art into your music files to use album art. I just put an image in the album's directory. – James McMahon – 2009-08-05T21:28:23.440

Answers

I don't know if it's the easiest way, but I use Media Monkey. It goes to Amazon (you choose which nationality) and auto-tags what it finds. Just click on the album and hit Ctrl+L.

My Classical music is the most problematic, but I find amazon.ca pretty good track listings.

Richard Morgan

Posted 2009-07-28T18:43:50.173

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Try Tag & Rename. It has built-in Amazon lookup that will download cover art and save it to folder.jpg or directly in the music files as part of the ID3V2 tag.

Tomas Andrle

Posted 2009-07-28T18:43:50.173

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I use Album Art Downloader. It's open source and written in .Net 3.5. To use it you simply point it at a directory and it will search for cover art for all albums within from a variety of sources.

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James McMahon

Posted 2009-07-28T18:43:50.173

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I use mp3tag for Windows XP. It links to Amazon and Discogs for the album art.

M1CH43L P4VL

Posted 2009-07-28T18:43:50.173

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I would checkout Songbird, with the add-on of Album Art Manager.

Songbird is an Open Source project, and has feature rich media control and organization.