Cover Art
Media Center can automatically download your album cover art, and display it while listening to your music.
Automatically Get Cover Art after Ripping
To set automatic downloading of cover art after ripping a CD, go to Tools > Options > CD and select "Get cover art from Internet after ripping".
Set the Cover Art Path
To modify where your cover art is saved, go to Tools > Options > File Location.
To save Cover Art in the file (when possible)
You can save Cover Art in the file itself as a tag. Note, however, that not all file formats will allow this, and for those that do, the file size will increase.
Go to Tools > Options > General and check "Save cover art inside tags when possible".
If your file format is mp3, you must set the modify the mp3 settings to include id3 tags. Go to Tools > Plug-in Manager > Input > MPE Plug-in and select Configure. For details about these options, see Save File Properties (id3 tags) in Disk Files.
Which files are missing cover art?
Media Center comes with pre-made smartlists, one of which is to display all files that are missing covert.
- In the tree, select Playlists, then Smartlists
- If Smartlists does not exist, right-click on Playlists and select Create Stock Smartlists
- Select the Missing Covert Art Smartlist.
Get Cover Art for Selected Files.
- Right click on file(s) in the content pane.
- Select Image and choose from the available options on the menu.
| Play/Show (first file) | This plays the image in full screen mode. It will play the image for just the first file if more than one track is selected. |
| Add From File | Browse to the file on your hard drive. Use this if the image isn't stored in your Cover Art directory. |
| Quick Find in File/Cover Art Directory | Automatically looks through your default Cover Art directory for the image, and links it to your file. |
| Get from Internet. | * Download (if missing). Use this for files that have no Cover Art. It's a good option for when multiple files are selected, because it will not overwrite any files that already have Cover Art.
Use already downloaded cover art. Select a Tolerance level. |
| Get from Scanner. | Automatically get an image from your scanner. You may have to first select your scanner. |
| Select Scanner. | Select your default scanner. |
| Paste from Clipboard(image or URL) | See "Copy to Clipboard". |
| Copy to Clipboard(first file) | Copy an image to the clipboard, and quickly paste it as another file's Cover Art. |
| Remove Cover Art | Removes links to Cover Art, as well as Cover Art stored in the file's tags. You can also permanently remove the image from your hard drive by clicking 'Yes' in the dialogue box that appears when you select this option. |
You can also quickly view which files have cover art by adding the "Image File" header to the columns in the content pane list. Just right-click on any header in the list, go to "Columns to Show" and select "image file".
View Cover Art while listening to Music
Play files and then go to Playing Now. Make sure the Display Pane is visible (if not, double-click the horizontal splitter bar in Standard Mode). If the display plug-in is set to "none", your cover art will display by default. You can double-click on the image to quickly toggle between full screen and windowed modes. See Display Plug-ins for details.