Album Cover Art Recovery and Manual Insertion

[Tom Swaman]

Sorry to be so new and ignorant, but if I rip using my computer and the CD ripper, I am often able to insert album cover art from the Internet that neither AMG, Free DB or the other one picks up. If the batch ripper rips an album I often get zero cover art, yet I know this is readily and correctly available on the Internet. Can you please tell me how I can go about recovering the barch ribbed CD and a cover from the Internet and then insert this with the metadat for storage on the hard drive like any other album cover? Many thanks in advance.

With much appreciation,
Tom Swaman

[dbfan]

Re: Album Cover Art Recovery and Manual Insertion

You would have to manually add it after ripping, select all the album tracks, right click >> edit I'd tags, the click the add art work item, choose from Internet.

[Tom Swaman]

Re: Album Cover Art Recovery and Manual Insertion

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Thank you for your prompt reply. Unforfunately, I was born before the electronic generation and I do not understand what you are telling me. Following dbPoweramp ripping a CD, the music is placed on a hard drive and it is totally not showing in dbPoweramp. The only place the music is listed is in an external folder containing all of the ripped music. Since the music computer uses Windows 7, if I right click on an album, the music folder coimes up in Roxio Converter. O.K. I am lost. Please treat me as a dummy and give me a step-by-step instruction. I do know how to copy the jpeg cover of an album off the Internet.

I sincerely hope that what you tell me will also benefit a number of other users of dbPoweramp.

Thank you again,
Tom Swaman

[dbfan]

Re: Album Cover Art Recovery and Manual Insertion

Open the folder containing the music, in windows explorers, then select all the tracks and right click on one, all the tracks will be updated in one go.

[Tom Swaman]

Re: Album Cover Art Recovery and Manual Insertion

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Voila, you cracked my thick skull. What you instructed does work. I thank you very much and I hope this also helps others.

Much appreciation,
Tom Swaman

[Tom Swaman]

Re: Album Cover Art Recovery and Manual Insertion

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I am incorrect. I can only get the album covers to remain in some of the time. I do not understand why some seem to work and some do not. Do you have any thoughts on this and/or what I might be doing wrong? Thank you once again.

Regards,
Tom Swaman

[Krister]

Re: Album Cover Art Recovery and Manual Insertion

Hi guys,

I Am really going crazy since I can't figure out how to use my own cover art even if I have tried to follow each steps. Nothing works out for me so please help me someone

[Spoon]

Re: Album Cover Art Recovery and Manual Insertion

Select music files(s) >> right click >> Edit ID Tag

then click the add art button.

[Krister]

Re: Album Cover Art Recovery and Manual Insertion

But it's still the small pic. Do you know what's wrong?

[Spoon]

Re: Album Cover Art Recovery and Manual Insertion

You remove the existing art before adding new?

[Krister]

Re: Album Cover Art Recovery and Manual Insertion

Yes. I removed the existing art. Ooops was that wrong?

[Spoon]

Re: Album Cover Art Recovery and Manual Insertion

No not wrong. Perhaps there is a folder.jpg with the smaller art in the same folder (the file might be hidden).

[Krister]

Re: Album Cover Art Recovery and Manual Insertion

I wonder if it is correct to put the pic that I want to use in the same folder as my flac files and change the name on the pic to Folder.jpg?

[Krister]

Re: Album Cover Art Recovery and Manual Insertion

When I remove all ID Tags from my flac files then it show the correct cover art but I don't want to delete the ID Tags. Please give some advice Spoon

[Krister]

Re: Album Cover Art Recovery and Manual Insertion

Hey Spoon, When I Am using Windows Media Player to play the flac file it shows the correct cover art. Do you think it is something with the VLC player?