CD Album Art

WetGeek

I recall seeing in a previous post that there's a utility someone mentioned as a way to retrieve album art for the CDs in a collection. I have a question about that utilty.

My music library has a number of albums that display with blank covers. I'd like to remedy that, if I can, but don't want to replace any of the original art that exists with something generic. Will applying that utility to my library skip over the art that already exists, and only retrieve what's missing?

And if so, would someone please remind me of the utility's name, so I don't need to search the posts for it? Thanks!

brent

Before Museek became my latest, I used lollypop and gmusic. Lollypop fetched the album covers automatically online. Gmusic fetches the album cover and lyrics. Granted I had CDs that the music player couldn't find (peggy lee/benny goodman collaboration as well as Nat King Cole/Gene Krupa collaboration)...
...I don't know the name of the utility. But I wonder if you need one? Might be a fetch album cover function built-in somewhere.

WetGeek

brent But I wonder if you need one?

It's entirely possible that there's no metadata available for those CDs. At least 98% of my CDs already have their art. I was hoping to find it for the rest of them. I have a feeling that if Elisa were able to find it as well, it would already have done so. But thanks for your reply.

brent

musicbrainzpicard (https://picard.musicbrainz.org/downloads/) us supposed to be the best in the business according to my DDG reading....
..but two thoughts on your endeavour:
1)if it's the best in the business it must access a library bigger than any other music player's internal matadata fetcher....
(libmusicbrainzis in the repo and I have it installed. It is not a standalone. It only works with Cantata, another 5 minute music player audition. why rmo didn't remove it I'll never know.)
2) 98% of mine is fetched, too. with my last player I was able to get 'good enough' in a manual search since metadata did not exist and the covers were no longer blank.

does a creature exist to secure the 2% other music players' album art fetchers cannot secure? in other words, does musicbrainz have access to a ginormous art library that others have no access to?

infinitymdm

brent musicbrainzpicard is supposed to be the best in the business

I concur with this. At some point a few years ago I actually wrote a little python script that interfaced with Picard to automate fetching metadata for my music. Unfortunately I seem to have misplaced that script, or I would have shared it here...