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Ok. I have a bunch of CD digitally ripped, and now I want to find the highest quality and resolution album art available. dbPoweramp/PerfectTunes does a pretty darn good job of this, but there are some albums that I have that are too nice or too rare to find that don't generate any hits there. What are some other good resources/programs for finding album art for my ripped albums? Because I have to be honest, I REALLY don't want to have to scan album art work and then go back and try and clean it up digitally, or pay someone else to clean it up for me.
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You can manually search for the art by clicking on it, various search engines are used to try to locate art. -
albumartexchange used to be good. But it seems to be inaccessible at times.Comment
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https://www.albumartexchange.com/ is good, BUT if you can log in, I suggest you share some covers with them as they tend to cut people off and they do not like VPNs.
I also use https://fanart.tv/music-fanart/ (usually 1,000 x 1,000)and https://bendodson.com/projects/itunes-artwork-finder/Comment
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https://www.albumartexchange.com/ are nasty to deal with. I got banned too many time. They even banned me after I donated money.
My story...
I was in the process of updating my album covers for my 3000+ CDs.
1st time I was banned. Supposedly I was downloading too many too quickly.
So I tried to share some covers with them that weren't in their database. Account reactivated.
2nd time banned. Apparently my covers were not up to their quality standards. So banned again.
Then I donated money. Unblocked. Started downloading again.
3rd time banned. Was told that all of Australia was cut off. Too many rogue users.
I then did a Credit card charge back. As I believe they cant have my money, if I cant use the site.
Now banned for life.
Buyer be ware.Comment
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Removing all of Australia, what a joke, we have been in this business for 25+ years, Album Art Exchange are not serious at what they do.Last edited by Spoon; August 24, 2025, 08:31 AM.Comment
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That is unfortunate. I don't doubt that is what you experienced but it isn't for me. I have been using that site for a very long time and never once have I experienced a ban. I know they are hyper-sensitive to having the site spammed by scripts and crawlers, but I don't think their intent is to ban most users, or entire countries.
I have well over 2,000 CDs ripped and many covers were added from AAX. I followed the guides to upload a couple of dozen images of covers from my library they did not have. They do keep pretty high standards though, which is why their available images are worth using.
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Good afternoon! In addition to dbPoweramp and PerfectTunes, I have started to use a piece of software called the "Album Art Downloader" and two websites: the SlothRadio Album Cover Finder and Ben Dodson's Apple Music Artwork Finder. I use the SlothRadio Album Cover Finder to generate a link to the Apple Music page of the album I am looking for, and then punch that link into the Apple Music Artwork Finder to (hopefully) get a high-resolution/high DPI album cover.
I then take the best looking Front Cover Art that I can find between these various tools and I upload it into Topaz Lab's AI Upscaler. I then re-render the Front Cover Art at various magnification levels, with the one that is approximately 4000 x 4000 in size to be downscaled in GIMP to serve as my "current" front cover art. I am sure in just a few years it will become normal to have even larger front cover art attached to audio files, so I am trying to "futureproof" the process as much as possible now.Comment
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Most physical cover art cannot even be scanned in such a high resolution because you can see the printing dots, anything above 2000x2000 is not required in my opinion, you could put such an image on a 42" TV and it still look high quality as it has the same pixels across as 4KComment
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