- Geekery -
- May 18th, 2008,
- 6 Responses
A pill for the cover-art headache
- 18 May
Getting cover artwork was always a pain in the neck for me, which partly disappeared with the switch to iTunes and its Get Album Cover
option.
Unfortunately the solution is not for everyone out there, since what you need to get the Artwork is an iTunes Music Store account. Also, even if one has his account, it’s highly probable he won’t be able to fetch Artworks for more obscure/less popular albums.
Thankfully, there is a fairly simple and a free solution to get around the annoyance – Last.fm. I’m sure most of you already know and noticed the available little album artwork down at the band’s album page:
Now that would look great on your iPod Touch but what about iTunes – surely don’t want to use Zoom to see the cover. Cut to the chase. Last.fm keeps more than one size of the cover on their servers – the small one, which is 130 by 130 pixels wide and a bigger one: 300 by 300 – not sure if there are any different (ideally bigger) sizes available.
Basically, what you need to do is edit the image address of the album you’re looking for. Open the mini image in a new tab and replace the 130 with 300 so the URL looks similar this:
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/300x300/3622453.jpg
Which leaves you with pasting the image into iTunes.
6 responses so far. Care to add one yourself?
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qvist May 18th, 2008 at 13:55
for getting covers I use… wikipedia. and it’s quite successful.
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Oskar Krawczyk May 18th, 2008 at 14:00
Indeed, but only if your poison is mainstream music.
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Crash May 18th, 2008 at 17:22
I use google. Rarely dumped me down
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Greg Wolejko May 18th, 2008 at 20:33
wow this is quite cool, as finding album art for anything that is not mainstream is a real pain in the arse :) google and amazon used to work for me but the resolution sometimes sucked big time. last.fm’s at least provides a solid 300×300 base.
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Piotr Usewicz May 19th, 2008 at 11:33
You could always use Corripio from http://nclasssoftware.com/ which searches many different cover providers.
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Oskar Krawczyk May 19th, 2008 at 15:26
… Or you can do that :-)
