What provider has >=500x500 album art?

[Hobizal]

I have dBp set to 500x500, but every time I rip a CD, it gets different results for the album art. On my last CD it had 310x310 and a few CD's before that I got 500x500. Is there a setting that I've overlooked that will make it always get 500x500 or greater?

[EliC]

Re: What provider has >=500x500 album art?

non of the available providers consistently offer 500x500.

[Hobizal]

Re: What provider has >=500x500 album art?

So does it grab the largest size available, or does the program default to a certain provider for album art?

[LtData]

Re: What provider has >=500x500 album art?

I believe it grabs the biggest size it can.

[bhoar]

Re: What provider has >=500x500 album art?

So does it grab the largest size available, or does the program default to a certain provider for album art?

There are only two providers for album art with dbpoweramp: AMG and GD3.

I would guess the vast majority of users do not sign up with GD3, but some do. In the CD Ripper, AMG usage is unlimited (other than the yearly relicense), but GD3 is still a per lookup payment.

If you have enabled both, I am not sure what is done when album art shows up with both (assuming Perfectmeta is enabled and you've allowed what I call "fall-through" which means the second pay service is queried after a match is found in the first...and you are charged for GD3 in the CD Ripper or both if using the batch ripper).

Spoon?

-brendan

[Spoon]

Re: What provider has >=500x500 album art?

>AMG usage is unlimited (other than the yearly relicense), but GD3 is still a per lookup payment.

Not in CD Ripper, GD3 is also included with AMG.

[bhoar]

Re: What provider has >=500x500 album art?

>AMG usage is unlimited (other than the yearly relicense), but GD3 is still a per lookup payment.

Not in CD Ripper, GD3 is also included with AMG.

Oh! How'd I miss that fact?

I spent an unsuccessful 15 minutes earlier to looking for the login fields for GD3 in the cd ripper. Now I know why I can't find them...

Perhaps I am just a tad too batch ripper focused sometimes...

-brendan

[Hobizal]

Re: What provider has >=500x500 album art?

There is really an active and helpful community of people on here! Thanks everyone for your answers! It's always nice to see a program backed by their users and developers!

[MusicTrax]

Re: What provider has >=500x500 album art?

The best free source I've found for high-res (600x600) CD cover art is http://www.albumartexchange.com.

You have to download the art and add it manually, however, so you can't use it automatically with CD Ripper. Also, the number of CDs available isn't that big yet, but the members there appear to be pretty dedicated.

[LtData]

Re: What provider has >=500x500 album art?

If you download the art, or even just copy it to your clipboard, you can click the "+" sign by the area the album art shows and click "From Clipboard".

[sjmac]

Re: What provider has >=500x500 album art?

But it looks soooooo much better if I scan it myself at 600dpi in to PhotoShop Elements, adjust the black and white levels, then the saturation, (ooo - and again - that's better), healing brush to get rid of that crease, crop a perfect square, resize to 500x500 using bicubic resampling, a touch of unsharp mask, then use "save for web" to strip off headers for a small file size.

That also means I get the same version of the cover as I have on my CDs, but on the other hand it has kind of slowed down my cd ripping workflow. I should be finished some time in 2023 ...

:blush: