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Bread in a tin… in a vending machine.

2007 Sep 19 Gavin  

2 Responses to “Bread in a tin… in a vending machine.”

1. on 24 Sep 2007 at 13時12分 1Contamination

   For cover art for itunes, I just look for the album on amazon.com

   so easy.

2. on 26 Sep 2007 at 14時31分 2Gavin

   I used to do that… but the problem is that some of the Artwork is low resolution, and cropped. I usually found the artwork on Wikipedia entries used to be better.

   However, the link in this posting seems to provide far better (higher resolution) artwork in the majority of cases. The only issue I have is collecting artwork for Japanese albums for stuff I’ve ripped from my missus CD collection (and other Japanese tunes I’ve ‘acquired’)

   EDIT:
   Here’s an example:
   Oasis – Definitely Maybe
   The Artwork file from Amazon.co.uk – Image file is here, for a direct link.

   Artwork file from Josh’s Site – Image file is here, for a direct link.

   The Amazon art is a 500×500 pixel file… but note that it includes a massive border. So, the actual art size is 300×300 (approx).
   The Josh’s one, that’s a 600×600 image with no border….. and that one is a bad example. Some of the artwork is 1425×1425

   EDIT 2:
   Grrrr. Looks like Apple have blocked that site now, and it doesn’t work anymore. Spoilsports!