Add album art from the online database

Add album art from the online database

You can try to match an album in your library with an entry in the online database. If you find a match, the Player will download whatever album art is in the database to your computer. Note that when the Player downloads album art, it also downloads all other media information associated with that album (such as the album name, song titles, and so on). If you have previously edited the media information for that album in your library, the following procedure will overwrite your changes.

To add album art from the online database

Connect to the Internet.
In Windows Media Player, click the Library tab, and then browse to the album that you want to add art to.
Right-click the album, and then click Find Album Info.
If you get an error message that says that you must change your privacy settings before you can update media information, do the following:
- Click the arrow below the Library tab, and then click More Options.
- Click the Privacy tab, and then select the Update music files by retrieving media info from the Internet check box.
Do one of the following:
- If the correct album or artist information appears in the search results, select the correct entry, and then follow the instructions on the page to update the album art and media information automatically. If the correct album information does not appear in the search results, follow the instructions on the page to search again using different search criteria.
- If the correct album information appears with a generic music icon displayed as the album art, then album art is not available for download. You can match your own album art to the album by following the procedure in the next section.

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Add the album art of your choice manually

If some of your albums are missing album art or if you want to replace existing art with your own, you can manually add a picture of your choice. When you do so, the picture is embedded into the file, and the Player will always show the embedded file as the album art (as opposed to any album art that the Player may have downloaded from the online database).

To add album art to all songs in an album

Click the Library tab, and then browse to the album that is missing art.
Using either Internet Explorer or Windows Explorer, in another window, find a picture that you want to use for album art (the picture can be in a file on your computer or on a webpage), right-click the picture, and then click Copy.

The original picture can be in any of the following formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, or TIFF.
In your library, right-click the album art box, and then click Paste Album Art.

A copy of the picture is embedded into each of the songs from that album. The copy of the picture is automatically scaled to the appropriate size and converted to the JPEG format before it is embedded in the file. The original picture file is not modified.

If you cannot add album art manually, verify that you have permission to modify the file. For example, right-click the file, click Open, right-click the file again, and then click Open File Location. In the folder, right-click the file, click Properties, and then clear the Read-only check box if it is selected.

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View album art

Album art also can appear in a variety of places inside and outside the Player, including:

In the library
In the status area at the bottom of the Player (near the playback controls)
In certain visualizations
In the Windows folder where you store your music files (for example, the Music folder)
In the Info Center View. To see this view, click the Now Playing tab, right-click the area where videos and visualizations appear, and then click Info Center View.
In the Find Album Information dialog box (the dialog box that appears when you click the Find Album Info command)

Note that the album art that appears in the Find Album Information dialog box is provided by data providers, such as AMG. The album art that appears in the Info Center View is provided by the online store that you currently have selected.

To view album art when playing music

Do one of the following:

Begin playing the song, and then click Now Playing. Click the arrow below the Now Playing tab, point to Visualizations, and then click Album Art.

Large album art appears in the visualization area.
Begin playing the song, and then click Now Playing. If the List pane is not visible, click the arrow below the Now Playingtab, and then click Show List Pane.

Small album art appears in the List pane.