Ripping CD to MP3 - album images?

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Bit late to the party on this I know but I've just been putting my collection of CDs to MP3s.

However, when comparing the files with a friend's collection I find he's got small jpg files of the album covers. I'm told players like Windows Media Player display this stuff. So, where can I get these images? and are they important?

FWIW using CDex v1.51 to rip the files.

Thanks in anticipation
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[veeeffarr]

I think if you automatically play them in media player it will download the album art.

[daz|n00by]

All my albums that i "supply" shall we say have covers, they are all scanned from the real ones.
their are a few sites left that you can download covers from but most were shut down.
i,ll get a few sites for you later.
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[colin1]

[Dazbo666]

I usually use Media Player 10 at the moment.
And if I'm connected to the net while ripping a CD into MP3's the media player connects to the CD database and downloads the album art thumbnails as part of the process
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[colin1]

yeah, but he already has the mp3s on his pc so he needs to do what i said, to get artwork off the net using media player which will then get attatched
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[daz|n00by]

Not many places left but you can try..


https://www.mega-search.net/index.php?setlanguage=en
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[map]

Thanks for all your replies.

I think I've found what I've been looking for on this link.

It's Album Cover Art Downloader (v1.6.0)

Trying it out now and it appears a bit hit and miss on selecting the covers. I'll have a look to see what else wimilar is out there.

I'm only interested in the small images for use with the PC/MP3 player.
I have the original CDs so I'm not wanting to create new covers from the full size downloads (but thanks for the link, it may come in handy).


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