Use Beatport! Search for the release, klick on the picture and it will pop up a bit bigger. Then just drag it to your desktop and you have a decent quality cover art. An alternative source is Discogs.
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Where should I go to get my album covers?
Everyone has tracks that come from who knows where. My goal is to get the album covers setup in the Info profile for all of my music. I only buy WAV files but apparently they don't contain any album art/covers in the download from the digital music stores I buy from.
I know I can google for images and or spend hours on beatport trying to save the images and dragging them into Recordbox Info boxes.
Is there an easier way to do this? Is there a specific size and website I can to to get album art for my tracks?
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Sorry, just read the first part of your post. I don't know any other way to do it.
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That's fine. I just wondered why beatport couldnt just throw an image in with the track when they sell it -- even if they had to use a compressed file to combien the wav and image into 1 file. Plus I have to rename all my files because of the catalog number beatport uses preceeding all of their file names.
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@movingzachb: If you use a OSX platform? There is a bit of software called Beatler? Which actually downloads all the correct tags & artwork I think. I downloaded it thinking it would correct my mp3 files but only works on wav files.
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Sorry should of checked before posting, Beatler does get your artwork but the software I was thinking of is called Beat Tagger..
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I don't have a Mac. I don't use itunes either however if I did would that corect a second problem I have? That is my folders in my USB stick after I export the files to it are various artis/Uknown artist/ etc..
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@movingzachb > What do you use to tag all your files? Rekordbox or some other software?
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I have not made any changes to them once they were downloaded. Initially I simply created Genre folders in Recordbox then dragged tracks from the collection side to the genre folders accordingly.
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So you're wanting to add them specifically into rekordbox? Have you considered converting them to AIFF files (which allow meta-tags and artwork and are also uncompressed)?
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I have no considered that, no. Beatport is ready to reset my download library to allow me to re-download the files using their data option and it will give me track names. Perhaps those will end up being AIFF - I don't know. Either way it seems like a faster solution then doing it one by one. Then I'll have to remember to use their downloader for any other future WAV files I grab. Also, I buy from Juno at times and.. well - their track names are already set correctly (without the need of a downloader) in WAV format.
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Beatport now sells AIFF files with the artwork and tags embedded in them. It's a beta feature at the moment, but I use it and it works great now that Rekordbox had the recent update.
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