How do I get album cover art without using iTunes/Music apps?

[Sill]

I've recently decided to get away from Apple Music and try out Audirvana. I'm just using it in Airplay mode so I'm not getting a tenth of the value of this thing, if I upgrade to a standalone DAC I'll go to the full version and see what DSD/DoP has to offer. So far I like it, but the interface took some getting used to, it reminds me a lot of the old AudioGalaxy service from years ago.
I previously had iTunes in list view so I never really noticed my cover art or lack of it. Audirvana uses a tiled cover view, which is pretty cool if you have all the album covers, which I don't.

Audirvana has a metadata editor but not a cover art finder. Winduhs has many apps for this, what is available for the Mac besides iTunes/Music?

 

[InnSuu]

You could try MusicBrainz. I do not like their metadata, it varies too much. But the cover art option is pretty good. https://musicbrainz.org/doc/How_to_Add_Cover_Art and also here https://archive.org/details/coverartarchive

 

[Fuchal]

Kid3 (https://kid3.kde.org) retrieves album art and tags.

 

[Graham Caracas]

discogs.com

 

[Dave Braine]

Screenshot from Amazon?

 

[CTHarrryH]

Search for Album arr for the album and then save and copy the image

 

[WebHead]

iTunes Artwork Finder by Ben Dodson

bendodson.com

 

[Sill]

Screenshot from Amazon?

Search for Album arr for the album and then save and copy the image

Yes, I'll do that for all 1400 albums. 😆

iTunes Artwork Finder by Ben Dodson

bendodson.com

Interesting - I used Ben's site for years when I needed to find the right "one sheet" for my movies. I didn't know he'd branched out into other media. Thats good to know, thanks.

 

[Sill]

You could try MusicBrainz. I do not like their metadata, it varies too much. But the cover art option is pretty good. https://musicbrainz.org/doc/How_to_Add_Cover_Art and also here https://archive.org/details/coverartarchive

Kid3 (https://kid3.kde.org) retrieves album art and tags.

I'll look at those services, thank you guys.

 

[WebHead]

Interesting - I used Ben's site for years when I needed to find the right "one sheet" for my movies. I didn't know he'd branched out into other media. Thats good to know, thanks.

No problem! As you'll probably see he also has a separate site for Apple's newer 16:9 movie artwork if required.

 

[Sill]

No problem! As you'll probably see he also has a separate site for Apple's newer 16:9 movie artwork if required.

That's interesting. I haven't been around here more than occasionally over the past few years but I'm sure that Apple's decision to switch to 16:9 has been debated thoroughly. For myself, I've never understood why Apple messes with thumbnail size for their media content. The 1:1 squares for TV didn't bother me much as I'm not a TV watcher. For movies, changing from the standard one-sheet to a wide thumbnail for library tiles makes zero sense. More so now that cinema Lobby Card ads disappeared about 30 years ago, and those were the main way studios did print promotion in a wide format. Without Lobby Cards there isn't a genuine print promo to adapt to a library tile for iTunes, so their tiles are generally really bland versions of DVD cover art.

 

[Macyourdayy]

iMazing is supposed to do more than iTunes used to. I believe they have trial versions.

 

[WebHead]

Without Lobby Cards there isn't a genuine print promo to adapt to a library tile for iTunes, so their tiles are generally really bland versions of DVD cover art.

In a lot of cases they've done original artwork for the 16:9 version, but yes in others it's just a lazy adaptation of the vertical art. And while the vertical art is more striking in its original size, I can appreciate that horizontal might be more efficient as screen space goes.

 

[rdyornot]

You could try MusicBrainz. I do not like their metadata, it varies too much. But the cover art option is pretty good. https://musicbrainz.org/doc/How_to_Add_Cover_Art and also here https://archive.org/details/coverartarchive

OOC: Whose metadata do you prefer?

 

[Fishrrman]

Old thread, but here's what I do sometimes.

- Go to YouTube, see if the song/album is there
- Play one of the songs that has the artwork showing as the song plays
- Adjust the window size so that the artwork displayed is where you want it
- Do a "command-shift-4" to create screenshot crosshairs, then drag the crosshairs over the artwork and let go
- Artwork will become a screenshot on your desktop. Adjust and use accordingly.

 

[TOM1211]

Muv Undercover , (paid software) windows only problem

 

[rhett7660]

Yes, I'll do that for all 1400 albums. 😆



Interesting - I used Ben's site for years when I needed to find the right "one sheet" for my movies. I didn't know he'd branched out into other media. Thats good to know, thanks.

I have done it for over 2000 albums. It does take a while... I like being able to make sure I get the right album cover art and in the right size.

I have used some of the software that has been mentioned, but I was finding it wasn't getting the correct album art all the time. So I end up doing a google search. Now, I don't use any services, but do a google search, get the file, correct the size if need be, and use it to encode via XLD.