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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Melodic on 30 Aug 2006, 00:52

Title: Album Cover Artwork
Post by: Melodic on 30 Aug 2006, 00:52

I am in search of a website that has plenty of album covers in JPEG format, that are a uniform size and quality. I understand that Google is my friend for obtaining album artwork, but I've yet to come across a site or hoster that has a plethora of covers, in a uniform size and/or quality. Is there anything like this out there on the intarwubs?

Title: Album Cover Artwork
Post by: TrueNeutral on 30 Aug 2006, 03:55

The only cover site I know stopped doing them for musical cds. Sorry.

Title: Album Cover Artwork
Post by: billythehick on 30 Aug 2006, 05:57

here was me thinking i'd found a thread for the greatest album covers of all time.

have there been many decent album covers since the cover became five inches squared?
i can't think of any that carry proper artistic merit other than in your honour by foo fighters and check in by the chalets.
muse have a few interesting ones i suppose.
also: mink car by they might be giants.

Title: Album Cover Artwork
Post by: lastclearchance on 30 Aug 2006, 07:16

allmusic.com?

Title: Album Cover Artwork
Post by: mysteriousbriefcase on 30 Aug 2006, 09:47

amazon.com jiggaboo.  shiiit man, i find all my musicality needs there.

or at least album covers for albums i download.

Title: Album Cover Artwork
Post by: Skittish on 30 Aug 2006, 12:47

Allmusic.

Title: Album Cover Artwork
Post by: amok on 30 Aug 2006, 14:02

Quote from: TrueNeutral

The only cover site I know stopped doing them for musical cds. Sorry.

Yeah, there's some legal reason why it's actually illegal to have a big archive of cover images. Copyright blah blah. So online shops or review sites like Allmusic are gonna be your best bet outside of Google Image search.

Title: Album Cover Artwork
Post by: nuisance on 01 Sep 2006, 00:01

I found the Album Art Aggregator (http://team.thenexusnet.com/nexus/AAA/) was a pretty useful way to search various incarnations of Amazon etc. and grab images quickly.  

You point it at a folder on your PC and it uses folder names etc. as search terms to find covers.

Because I'm amazingly interesting and unusual I found this only worked for about 50-60% of my CD collection, but that was a damn good start. ;)