The Best, Free CD Album Cover Art Search Engines
I always like to have a well-tagged and organized music collection complete with cover art. Some of my MP3s don’t have cover arts included in their ID3s, and it’s a pain searching for cover arts and adding them to the songs. Google Image Search is good, but there are better and efficient tools to do the same job of searching and fetching CD Album Cover Arts.
What follows is a list of some CD Album Cover Art search engines and tools that I’ve been using over the past few months. I’d really appreciate if you know of any other cover art searching tools – please leave a comment if you have something to say.
All CD Covers
All CD Covers is a site that is completely community driven – meaning that users visit the site, upload the cover art they’ve got, others vote on it and the end result is that you get the best, high quality cover art pictures for your music.
High quality, they say. And that’s for real. Go for the site and you’ll find simply brilliant high resolution cover art for your music albums. The statistics on the homepage speak for themselves.
As a user, you can win prizes by uploading cover art! Hit Ctrl + D as soon as you land on the site – it must be in your bookmarks.
Sloth Radio CD/DVD Album Cover Art Search
Sloth Radio Search – Simple, clean and neat interface. Type in the name of the artist and the album and you get cover arts in multiple sizes – just scroll down the page to have a look at all of them.
Right click and save the artwork to your computer. Just what you need. Nitpicking, I found this site a bit slow – but it’s worth bearing considering the accuracy of search results.
CDCovers.CC Album Art Search
Proclaiming itself as a site with the world’s largest cover art archive, CDCovers.CC is a site to find more than just cover arts. Type in a name and you get related torrents, trailer, subtitles, and more.
The interface is intuitive, as you can see from the screenshot above. It definitely looks like a huge archive – I got plenty of search results.
Bonus – Sleevage
Sleevage is a site worth including here – everyday, there’s some new and interesting cover art that they feature on their blog. Quite a cool read. Go to Sleevage for plenty of amusing cover art images.
Leave your comments if you’ve got any. Much appreciated.
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I use AlbumArt.org. In AllCDCovers, there’s a lot of clicking around involved, but with AlbumArt.org you just have to search, click on the magnifying glass, copy, and paste!
pinwheelstars
23 Jun 08 at 7:37 pm
This is absolutley awsome. Have used allCdCovers for a while but the rest are brilliant to add to my favourites.
THANKS VERY MUCH
Elliot
23 Jun 08 at 8:23 pm
I’m not a big fan of such services – most of them fail to retrieve correct info for regional music
Sumesh
23 Jun 08 at 9:48 pm
@Sumesh: Agreed. Most of this are suitable for international based music files. Nice list though.
Syahid A.
23 Jun 08 at 10:35 pm
Quite nice, this will definitely help enhance my huge music collection
Keith Dsouza
23 Jun 08 at 11:41 pm
I use Allcdcovers, cdcovers.cc and also amazon. And if I dont get it even there, its google search for me.
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24 Jun 08 at 12:02 am
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24 Jun 08 at 10:30 am
I haven’t used them before.
But, A GREAT LIST.
And congrats on being on LifeHacker.
Aravind
24 Jun 08 at 10:22 pm
Thanks for the list. I found AllCDCovers and Cdcovers.cc to be most useful with a very impressive high quality cd/dvd covers collection. The days of missing album art from my iPod are finally gone…
Mops
25 Jun 08 at 3:12 am
[...] Web-based album art library and search engine AllCDCovers just may have the missing art you’ve been looking to fill in your digital music collection. Despite its name, AllCDCovers carries both album art, DVD covers, and game covers, front and back, with pretty high res versions available for free download. AllCDCovers didn’t have the indie artist I tried, so the really obscure stuff might not be here; still, when the iTunes Store fails you it may be a good stop. Here’s more on how to fix up your MP3 collection by adding album art through Media Monkey; see our complete album art tag to get a few more sources and art search engines. Share your favorite online source of downloadable album art in the comments. AllCDCovers [via Killer Tech Tips] [...]
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25 Jun 08 at 3:27 am
I definitely needed this list, because I hardly have any of the album for all of my albums in iTunes. Thanks for the tip!
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25 Jun 08 at 5:55 am
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25 Jun 08 at 6:17 am
Generally WMP finds most of the Album Art else i Google Search for them.
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25 Jun 08 at 4:08 pm
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26 Jun 08 at 5:38 pm
i never tried it before! but will give it a go now
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2 Jul 08 at 7:13 am
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4 Jul 08 at 6:44 pm
Nice list Shankar! However I’m not quite happy doing this manually. Any tips/ tools to automate for all music files?
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5 Jul 08 at 7:08 pm
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7 Jul 08 at 10:34 pm
There’s an excellent mp3 tagger software called mp3tag which along with a raft of other features will pull tags and cover art from Amazon.com or Amazon.de. It’s absolutely superb.
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
Matt
9 Aug 08 at 9:26 pm
thanks for sharing
Jack Carol
14 Aug 08 at 5:15 pm
I can find everyhing I need at coverhunt.com and best of all it doesn’t have any ads!
Megan Baker
17 Aug 08 at 7:19 pm
Hi Megan – I’m glad you find coverhunt.com useful!
Ross Hill
16 Oct 08 at 9:15 pm
kiko
2 Nov 08 at 6:39 pm
Cool list.I have used to use cdcovers.cc for my work.:wink:
Windows Guy
12 Dec 08 at 1:11 pm
http://www.albumartexchange.com is awesome.
Mike
8 Jan 09 at 8:24 am
this website is brillent i use it for my album covers but for the last two days i have not been able to use it as there seams to be a problem with the website it seams to be broken and there are missing links to it internet explorer can not find it so if some else is getting the same problems please email me
amanda pickett
4 Mar 09 at 8:43 pm
another great option is http://www.album-cover-art.org
LastVid
8 Mar 09 at 6:55 am