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Re: Getting correct cover files
My scanner sits right next to the computer I rip with. Long ago I discovered it is usually faster to just scan the artwork myself if nothing good comes up quickly than to go searching around the Internet. A good part of my collection is Caribbean music issued on small labels with little, if any, Internet presence.
And personally, I don't spend much time fretting about the artwork anyway. Much of my listening is while driving in the car. My car infotainment system refuses to display the artwork embedded in the music files. Instead, it pulls often incorrect images from Gracenote. Classic example, I have a CD from a Trinidadian Parang group, Los Carpenteros. My car displays a photo of the American folk group The Carpenters, ignoring the CD artwork metadata embedded in the m4a files.
And at home, where my players do display the correct embedded artwork, the image on the player is small enough that low resolution isn't particularly visible anyway.
What I find missing from the metadata sources and the players is any way to present the informative booklets that came with some CDs. I miss being able to read them.
My scanner sits right next to the computer I rip with. Long ago I discovered it is usually faster to just scan the artwork myself if nothing good comes up quickly than to go searching around the Internet. A good part of my collection is Caribbean music issued on small labels with little, if any, Internet presence.
And personally, I don't spend much time fretting about the artwork anyway. Much of my listening is while driving in the car. My car infotainment system refuses to display the artwork embedded in the music files. Instead, it pulls often incorrect images from Gracenote. Classic example, I have a CD from a Trinidadian Parang group, Los Carpenteros. My car displays a photo of the American folk group The Carpenters, ignoring the CD artwork metadata embedded in the m4a files.
And at home, where my players do display the correct embedded artwork, the image on the player is small enough that low resolution isn't particularly visible anyway.
What I find missing from the metadata sources and the players is any way to present the informative booklets that came with some CDs. I miss being able to read them.
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