Replacing existing album art with higher resolution art?

[Jon]

90% of my 900-ish CDs were ripped 6 or 7 years ago, when the "state of the art" seemed to be 200x200 album art (or maybe that was an artifact of the ripping tool I used at the time, Windows Media Player). Newer CDs I've acquired, and rip with dBpoweramp, are getting 500x500 album art.

Is there any relatively simple way to update the 200x200 art to higher resolution? Some of the available tools seem to search for art only where art is missing ... others seem to require intensely manual processes ... is there anything available that would at least partially automate the process of finding and updating my album art?

I would like some form of manual intervention, in that I don't want to end up goofing up my files with the wrong artwork ... at the same time I'd like to automate as much of the process as is practical.

[Ron Olsen]

Check out bliss: http://www.blisshq.com. It will do exactly what you want.

I set bliss up to flag all albums with cover art less than 500x500 as Uncompliant, and also have it set to only do manual cover art changes.

I then go through all the Uncompliant albums and look at the alternative cover art files that bliss has found, and select the best one, and have bliss put it in cover.jpg in the album directory.

bliss provides 100 free fixes, then you have to pay for more. Well worth the cost if you are fussy about your cover art.

bliss has other features as well; see the web page for details.

[elstensoftware]

Thanks Ron.

Art can also be updated automatically to higher res, if that's what you want, as per http://www.blisshq.com/music-library...ers-automatic/

[Jon]

Check out bliss: http://www.blisshq.com. It will do exactly what you want.

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for.

One question regarding Bliss pricing, assuming I wish to go for 1000 fixes versus unlimited.

If I have for example 1000 albums to fix, with an average of 10 tracks per album, is that 1000 fixes or 10,000?

If the answer is 10,000, could I have Bliss replace only the folder.jpg file in each album folder (which would total 1000 in my example) rather than the embedded art in each track? If I did this, I could then use a tagging tool to embed the folder.jpg into the tracks.

[Ron Olsen]

I think if you change the artwork in 1,000 albums, that would be 1,000 fixes, even if you embed the artwork in each track.

Dan Gravell, the bliss developer, would know for sure: email bliss@blisshq.com
or PM user elstensoftware http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?u=31345 on this site if he doesn't answer the question definitively in this thread.

[elstensoftware]

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for.
If I have for example 1000 albums to fix, with an average of 10 tracks per album, is that 1000 fixes or 10,000?

If the answer is 10,000, could I have Bliss replace only the folder.jpg file in each album folder (which would total 1000 in my example) rather than the embedded art in each track? If I did this, I could then use a tagging tool to embed the folder.jpg into the tracks.

I understand that the 'fixes' thing can be a little vague. A 'fix' is a change to your files for one album to make it comply with your rules. Here, a 'rule' means either the cover art rule, the file org rule, tag versions, genre, information etc. - basically each thing with a separate box on the 'settings' pulldown.

For example, imagine you configured the cover art rule requiring a cover.* file, with embedded art required and art must be above 500x500. Each of the following would cost one fix, per album:

• Where an album has no art, finding art above 500x500 and saving/embedding it
• For an album with a cover.jpg but no embedded art, embedding it
• For an album with art below 500x500, finding higher res art and saving/embedding it

If you change your rules and re-assess, changing stuff again will cost further fixes.

This means the maximum amount of fixes that can be used in one full scan of your collection is (number of albums * number of rules configured).