Where do you find "good" CD album cover art?

[arcadecab]

I have downloaded a few programs and they work pretty slick.  I now that some have options to automatically find cover art, but many you have to find your own.  Just wondering what most of you guys do for cover art--is there a specific website that has alot of the covers and they are easy to find?  Where does everyone get the CD covers from?  Is there a specific size of the image that is standard or used by most jukebox players?  What size should I save the images to? Do most also use a scanner to get image from actual cover from owned CD's.  What works best???
Thanks for any help or direction.

[Fat-Johnny]

Just wondering what most of you guys do for cover art--is there a specific website that has alot of the covers and they are easy to find?  Where does everyone get the CD covers from?

I covered this in another thread:

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=12442

Cliffs notes:  I prefer to use www.buy.com.
Hope it helps,
FJ

[Harakiri]

Hope that Saint isn't watching!


www.mega-search.net -> I get most of my stuff from there!

 

[tglotzbach]

Best place I've found is CD Universe. Just look up the artist, go click on the album link and it will show large front which is CD size. Just save or print, cut out and use.

[egosbar]

the best place is google images , very rare not to find an album cover there , make sure you click the thumbnail and then open it into full view before saving it

[Hutt]

the best place is google images , very rare not to find an album cover there , make sure you click the thumbnail and then open it into full view before saving it

+1 to that... and you can specify whatever size you are looking for in the search.
If you are simply looking for 500x500 then Amazon and walmart.com have just about everything as well.

[Richard_Nixon]

I use MediaMonkey, it's found me pretty much every CD cover Ive ever asked for. It searches basically everywhere to find the cover and track info.

[Hutt]

On another note... if ripping my own cd I use DBPoweramp. On the rare occasion it doesnt find it (or one that is not at least 500x500) I use the methods I mentioned above.

[Dermbrian]

I generally use images.google.com and then pick the biggest and clearest up to about 500 x 500 pixels.

If I can't find the CD or LP image that way, I try eBay, take a screenshot, and then use Paint or something similar to crop out the image.

If that doesn't work, I get out the camera and take a picture of the CD cover art or LP cover.

If it is something I recorded live, myself, I try to use a meaningful picture.   For example, when I record my son's high school choir I usually try to take a picture of that night's performance and lay some text over it like "John Smith High School Winter Concert 2011". 

I've also created year-by-year collections of songs that were in the top 100 that year, including any other single that I really like from that year.  For those, I found an image of a real jukebox from that year and overlayed "1961" (for example) over that image as an album cover.

Brian

[Sparky2323]

Album Art Exchange has very good quality stuff.

[lilshawn]

http://www.cdcovers.cc/

and

http://www.allcdcovers.com/

have 99.9% of what i'm looking for.

[mountain]

Here is another good source if Google doesn't have a good example.

http://www.albumartexchange.com/covers.php