paulster;447447 Wrote: > Whatever method you choose I'd recommend looking at > www.albumartexchange.com for really high quality artwork. There's a lot > of exceptionally nice work there.
Agreed. That's where I got most of mine from. Most images on albumartexchange.com are at 600x600 resolution, and there are some higher than that. The next best source is http://www.lala.com/. Most images there are at 550x550. After that, the next best source that I have found is using http://www.maniadb.com/. Forget the Japanese characters - just enter a search term. Apart from its own artwork, the search also does a scrape of allcdcovers.com As a last resort, I scan in the covers myself and tidy the image with an image editor. Personally, I have not found the automated tools be to very good. I have almost all of my collection now ripped (apart from the classical music) so I've already been through the pain, but I ended up adding artwork 'by hand'. After downloading the image, I use IrfanView to view, resize the image to 500x500, and save as folder.jpg. I also use an image editor to crop images and to do editing if necessary. I have standardised on 500x500x72 as my preferred image size. I can also recommend Album Catalog Creator (ACC) as an excellent tool for listing your album collection. It also makes any missing artwork very easy to find! Download it from http://acc.vanholt.nl/ Hope this helps -- rperkin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rperkin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15079 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66533 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
