paradoxal 2948 Posted March 30, 2014 Finding good quality album art for your favorite visual kei bands or Japanese bands in general isn't always an easy task. Where do you find high quality album art?Do you usually scan the album arts yourself or have you found a source full of high quality covers?Do you simply use Google? Or do you even care about the quality of album arts? I've found the best source to be Okmusic. Of course they don't have everything, but they do have some and that's the first place I check when I'm adding album arts to my albums. Most of the covers there are 1200x1200 but you need to do a few tricks to be able to download them. Okmusic has blocked downloading their covers, but you can easily find the picture from the source code (ctrl+U) of the page after opening the album art in a new tab. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nick 10212 Posted March 30, 2014 I usually take good quality album arts from Amazon Japan either Visual Kei or J-Pop (500px or higher resolution is good enough to be displayed in foobar2000 and a portable music player IMO). And as of late, there have been 1500px album arts available for newer releases, though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hiroki 5521 Posted March 30, 2014 Normally I just "search image" a couple of times using Google. If I don't get any good results then it prob means that even if a HQ album art exists, it's not worth the time to scour the internet for it. Thankfully as more and more stuff make their way onto Amazon and iTunes it has never been easier to find HQ covers. For the rarer stuff I'm usually forced to scan the album art myself but unfortunately my scanner is pretty crap (it sure beats a 300x300 image though). Also, be careful because sometimes the dimensions can be misleading. For instance a 1200x1200 art can be upscaled from 600x600 and you're better off getting the 600x600. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eraser 66 Posted March 30, 2014 In most cases, I use the iTunes Store (they have high quality artworks in 600×600 resolution, which is more than enough for me). If you register an account there, you can download any cover by clicking on a song you have and selecting "Get Album Artwork". However, it won't actually save it - when you remove the file from the player, the artwork will be gone. To prevent this, after selecting "Get Album Artwork", do the following: Get Info -> Artwork -> Copy -> open any image editor (IrfanView, for example) -> paste -> save it as .PNG -> Get Info -> Artwork -> Add. This way the image will remain within the file until you manually remove it. Another source I can recommend is the last.fm gallery. Since everyone is free to upload cover arts, it's a good way too find the best quality available. Just go to an album, click on the cover, then select the one with the most positive votes. To view the full size image, go to http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/X.png (X = the serial number of the image). Here is an example: http://www.last.fm/music/DIR+EN+GREY/UROBOROS http://www.last.fm/music/DIR+EN+GREY/UROBOROS/+images http://www.last.fm/music/DIR+EN+GREY/UROBOROS/+images/67738798 http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/67738798.png Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CAT5 9075 Posted March 30, 2014 ototoy generally has some fairly nice-sized album art, although their selection doesn't consist of much Vk. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nyasagi 259 Posted March 30, 2014 I usually use google for bigger images. If I can't find any, there are none. I also wouldn't trust people's scans, because most people can't scan in HQ. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daamxlaws 61 Posted April 1, 2014 or you can use Album Art Downloader. http://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/ 1 paradoxal reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paradoxal 2948 Posted April 1, 2014 or you can use Album Art Downloader. http://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/ Wow, that sounds so great! Does it really work, eg. for small indie bands? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daamxlaws 61 Posted April 1, 2014 Wow, that sounds so great! Does it really work, eg. for small indie bands? well, I can't tell. you should try for yourself Share this post Link to post Share on other sites