# Album art disappearing from Internet searches?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-from-internet-searches/61421
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 28, 2023, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-from-internet-searches/61421 "2023-06-28T13:22:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@0LD3\_DUDE](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/0LD3_DUDE)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2023, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-from-internet-searches/61421/1 "2023-06-28T13:22:10Z")
Very, very recently, I've seen an enormous reduction of album art from Google and Bing searches. Amazon, which had been a go-to source for large album art images, has been reducing the size of images to a fraction seen just a month ago.
Am I the only one noticing this?
Are there other sources of large album art (1000 × 1000 pixels and up) that do not require subscriptions to online services?
I am ripping my own collection. I can scan these covers, but that just slows the process down by magnitudes of order.
Thanks, and have a great day!
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2023, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-from-internet-searches/61421/2 "2023-06-28T13:34:17Z")
I prefer the images that can be found here.
[https://www.albumartexchange.com/](https://www.albumartexchange.com/)
You need to register to have access, but most images are avaialble in up to 1500x1500 and have been well curated by the members. There is no way to automate this that I am aware of, so each album needs to be found on their site. Less covers than other methods may find, but definitely my first stop for quality over quantity.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-from-internet-searches/61421/3 "2023-06-28T13:41:21Z")
[fanart.tv](http://fanart.tv) also has a [Music section](https://fanart.tv/music-fanart/).
This should give you a quick view for album art for ABBA:
[https://fanart.tv/artist/d87e52c5-bb8d-4da8-b941-9f4928627dc8/abba/?section=albumcover](https://fanart.tv/artist/d87e52c5-bb8d-4da8-b941-9f4928627dc8/abba/?section=albumcover)
It may be a coincidence 😇 😉, that the same GUID is valid as artist ID on MusicBrainz:
> **[ABBA](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d87e52c5-bb8d-4da8-b941-9f4928627dc8)**
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> Group, Sweden, 1972-09
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2023, 1:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-from-internet-searches/61421/4 "2023-06-28T13:46:17Z")
> [@0LD3\_DUDE](#):
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> Are there other sources of large album art (1000 × 1000 pixels and up) that do not require subscriptions to online services?
You can use AlbumArtDownloader (AAD). It shows covers from many sources.
> **[Album Art Downloader](https://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/)**
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> Download Album Art Downloader for free. The Album Art Downloader is a program designed to make life easier for anyone who wishes to find and update their album art for their music collection. The sources for the pictures can be defined by creating...
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2023, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-from-internet-searches/61421/5 "2023-06-28T13:48:39Z")
In addition to @poster's hint with AAD:
There is a thread how to configure AAD as Tool (using it with a right click on your track loaded in Mp3tag):
> [@How to use AlbumArtDownloader in Tools for Cover Art](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-use-albumartdownloader-in-tools-for-cover-art/19422):
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> [AlbumArtDownloader](https://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/) is arguably one of the best free album cover art downloaders around. It effortlessly searches a large number of cover art sources with standalone scripts that are constantly updated. And it presents all the found art with previews, sizes, etc. Download and install AlbumArtDownloader from SourceForge: [https://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/](https://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/) In MP3TAG, click on Tools and select Options... (Ctrl-O shortcut) In the Mp3tag Options window, select Tools on the left side,…
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### Author:  [@0LD3\_DUDE](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/0LD3_DUDE)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-from-internet-searches/61421/6 "2023-06-28T16:04:34Z")
Thank you! I created an account at Album Art Exchange and downloaded AlbumArtDownloader.
I now have no doubt that album art is disappearing from Google and Bing searches—I'm not seeing the dozens of covers I used to see for even popular releases, and large images are an absolute rarity. Amazon is definitely changing the artwork displayed for releases, shrinking covers to thumbnail size or less while adding interior or reverse cover shots.
Perhaps this is another sad reflection of the move from physical to digital media.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2023, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-from-internet-searches/61421/7 "2023-06-28T19:32:03Z")
If you look at a [random release](https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B0B4MK45FS) with cover art at Amazon and inspect the source code you can still find this 1477x1500 pixel cover art
Maybe it depends on the music style? Or the Amazon country settings?
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### Author:  [@0LD3\_DUDE](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/0LD3_DUDE)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-from-internet-searches/61421/8 "2023-06-29T20:00:33Z")
I would need someone to walk me through that. I think F11 or F12 reveals the source code of a web page. I'm ignorant as to what to do, thereafter.
Google searches now tend to reveal Amazon as the sole source for album art on the web. All the other results one would normally see with each search are gone. Even with Size set to Large, the Amazon image will link to a tiny thumbnail, although we often saw something 1000 × 1000 pixels and larger just weeks ago.
Bing searches are yielding more results than Google, but not as many as were revealed weeks ago.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-from-internet-searches/61421/9 "2023-06-29T21:43:08Z")
> [@0LD3\_DUDE](#):
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> I would need someone to walk me through that. I think F11 or F12 reveals the source code of a web page. I'm ignorant as to what to do, thereafter.
It's easy: After opening the amazon product page like [this](https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B0B4MK45FS), click once on the small cover and then press F12. Click on the first icon in the Dev Tools (called "Select an element in the page...") and click on the cover again.
This should reveal the real direct download URL and also shows the covers dimensions.
You could also right click on the big cover and choose "Save picture as"
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### Author:  [@0LD3\_DUDE](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/0LD3_DUDE)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2023, 8:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-from-internet-searches/61421/10 "2023-07-01T20:53:06Z")
What I am realizing is that the Album Art Exchange is easier and faster than any searches I used before. I wish I had been using this years ago.
The only hassle has been the occasional questioning of my humanity, when the site checks if I am a bot, because I'm running so many queries.
I've been able to upload a couple covers not in the library in just my second day of use. Again, I should have been doing this years ago.
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-from-internet-searches/61421/11 "2023-07-01T21:42:21Z")
> [@0LD3\_DUDE](#):
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> The only hassle has been the occasional questioning of my humanity, when the site checks if I am a bot, because I'm running so many queries.
Well worth it for the quality of the images they have on their site, in my opinion!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-from-internet-searches/61421/12 "2023-07-31T21:43:09Z")
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