Reliable source for Hi-Res album art |
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Reliable source for Hi-Res album art |
 Jan 3 2007, 09:25
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Group: Members Posts: 91 Joined: 5-October 05 From: USA Member No.: 24889  |
Does anyone happen to know of a reliable source for Hi-Res [500x500+] album art? I've had hit and miss luck with tools that use amazon and google. Anything else to try?
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Jan 3 2007, 09:47
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 Group: Members Posts: 279 Joined: 14-May 05 From: Sydney Member No.: 22048 |
Yes this would be useful. Occasionally I find there's no better source for high resolution art with some albums than the website of the artist that designed the cover. For example the site of Peter Saville.
-------------------- Acid8000 aka. PhilDEE
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Jan 3 2007, 10:04
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Group: Members (Donating) Posts: 90 Joined: 30-July 03 From: New Zealand Member No.: 8083 |
QUOTE (vulc44n @ Jan 3 2007, 21:25)  Does anyone happen to know of a reliable source for Hi-Res [500x500+] album art? I've had hit and miss luck with tools that use amazon and google. Anything else to try? Try Walmart. They do 500x500 images. |
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Jan 3 2007, 10:08
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QUOTE (vulc44n @ Jan 3 2007, 03:25) Does anyone happen to know of a reliable source for Hi-Res [500x500+] album art? I've had hit and miss luck with tools that use amazon and google. Anything else to try? Amazon has the largest consistent album art size, in my experience. In addition to the official store album art, the site allows users to upload their own, resulting in a few hi res specimens. Lossless album archives on P2P networks usually include scans. And there's also Google's image search. -------------------- EAC>1)fb2k>LAME3.99 -V 0 --vbr-new>WMP12 2)MAC-Extra High
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Jan 3 2007, 10:33
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 Group: Members Posts: 204 Joined: 26-March 06 From: Edmonton, Canada Member No.: 28860 |
iTunes (if you've got an iTunes account) has ~600 x 600 album art which is usually of excellent quality. Every now and again they've got some crappy ones. In that case, I check out Amazon.com and Google's image search.
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Jan 3 2007, 13:01
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Group: Members Posts: 91 Joined: 5-October 05 From: USA Member No.: 24889 |
QUOTE (ozmosis82 @ Jan 3 2007, 04:33) iTunes (if you've got an iTunes account) has ~600 x 600 album art which is usually of excellent quality. Every now and again they've got some crappy ones. In that case, I check out Amazon.com and Google's image search. Has anyone looked into integrating the itunes albumart functionality into a tool external to itunes? Would this even be possible? |
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Jan 3 2007, 19:57
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Group: Members Posts: 731 Joined: 26-October 05 From: Various networks Member No.: 25371 |
QUOTE (vulc44n @ Jan 3 2007, 07:01) Has anyone looked into integrating the itunes albumart functionality into a tool external to itunes? Would this even be possible? The GodFather seems to fit the bill, for the most part... -------------------- EAC>1)fb2k>LAME3.99 -V 0 --vbr-new>WMP12 2)MAC-Extra High
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Jan 3 2007, 20:47
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Although the quality varies, there's lots of cover art at www.discogs.com .
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Jan 3 2007, 21:56
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 Group: Members Posts: 150 Joined: 31-August 04 From: Tejas Member No.: 16661 |
QUOTE (LANjackal @ Jan 3 2007, 12:57) QUOTE (vulc44n @ Jan 3 2007, 07:01) Has anyone looked into integrating the itunes albumart functionality into a tool external to itunes? Would this even be possible? The GodFather seems to fit the bill, for the most part... i love the godfather. however, i think it only pulls from amazon, not itunes or walmart or anywhere else. if anybody uses foobar i think the discogs plugin currently in development is very promising. discussion of foo-discogs |
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Jan 10 2008, 00:11
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Jan 10 2008, 00:41
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Group: Members Posts: 55 Joined: 18-December 06 Member No.: 38804 |
I don't think its necessary to post up album art that is 1500x1500. A link is all you need.
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Jan 10 2008, 15:09
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Group: Members Posts: 955 Joined: 6-September 04 Member No.: 16817 |
I'm seriously thinking about scanning my album covers in
 Might take a while tho.....
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Jan 10 2008, 18:14
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Group: Members (Donating) Posts: 31 Joined: 31-December 02 Member No.: 4335 |
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Jan 10 2008, 18:52
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 Group: Members Posts: 92 Joined: 11-March 04 From: The Forest Member No.: 12650 |
I believe that Album Art Downloader has been mentioned in various places here before. It searches most sources for album art and displays them all, allowing you to sort by size and more. Generally, it works well for me.
Another place that has good 500x500 is buy.com. You have to mess with the site a little bit to be able to save the larger art though. Example. On this page you would click enlarge image, but when you try to right click on the image to save, it shrinks back down. To save it, right click on the enlarge image link, select Copy Link Location, then paste it into your address bar. The link looks like this when pasted CODE java script:largeIM2('http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/large_images/387/60613387.jpg');hide('ppForm') Then just simply cut all of the javascript off, leaving only the link CODE http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/large_images/387/60613387.jpg and there's your 500x500 album art. I find that buy.com seems to be a little higher quality than amazon. |
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Jul 20 2011, 19:11
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Group: Members Posts: 275 Joined: 25-September 05 Member No.: 24684 |
bumpity-bump
Anyone know how to grab Amazon.co.jp's ~1600x1600 album art for select music? e.g., http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B002YLVAWU/ Grabbing the album art through the "normal" Amazon URL only yields the ~500x500 jpg. |
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