# DisCoverArt: Batch import album cover art based on artist and title
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521
**Category:** Web Sources Scripts
**Created:** [March 7, 2013, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521 "2013-03-07T14:13:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@djrobx](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djrobx)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2017, 3:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/43 "2017-08-20T03:38:40Z")
> [@R2D2](#):
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> I think the same as Koala. I don't see the benefit of you script, because the built-in function of MP3Tag is better and easier to use. And I have the same cover for every track in a folder.
My music library is about 75% genre based, not album based. That means I have large folders of say, "80s rock" or "Disco", or "Heavy metal" with only the hits from those genres. I don't want all of these "singles" cluttering the list of albums, so they are set up like very large "various artist" albums. This means The SONG artist and SONG title what I need to search on to find matching cover-art.
I had over a decade's worth of MP3s that i had collected, but never bothered much with the album art for. Then I got a car that displays the artwork. Trying to resolve this was going to be a major chore without help. Every other search tool I've tried fails to return art because they want the album name to match, or try to use Album Artist. DiscOverArt worked beautifully. It usually finds the CD-Single artwork which gives each song a unique cover. If it doesn't exist it usually finds the album it belongs to.
Love this tool. Thanks so much for it!
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### Author:  [@Reggaegandalf](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Reggaegandalf)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/44 "2017-12-27T17:19:46Z")
When executing the DisCoverArt Tool Norton kicks in and spits out a firewall alert and labels the exe as trojan and according to virustotal, as do 5 other scanning softwares:
[https://www.virustotal.com/de/file/4d9e3f29...sis/1514394844/](https://www.virustotal.com/de/file/4d9e3f29f1aa2470bd61328b80917efbf62544d2a7fa284629448e1484d5ed9c/analysis/1514394844/)
What should i make of that, i thought this was fixed?
Using DisCoverArt version 2.6.0.1 and Mp3Tag version 2.85
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### Author:  [@kim1253](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kim1253)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/45 "2020-02-08T19:31:02Z")
> [@xplorr](#):
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> New version v.2.6.0.1
First thanks for XploRR and other members developing Batch Cover Art in Mp3tag.
I remember that Discoverart v.2.6.0.1 was working beautifully a few month ago.
But it suddenly does not work now. Black Screen was popup and disappeared immediately. Google html was changed again or something is wrong with me.
All inputs will be appreciated
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### Author:  [@xplorr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/xplorr)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/46 "2020-02-09T17:51:58Z")
New version v.2.7.0.1 (due to change of Google search format)
See first post of this thread for download location.
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### Author:  [@kim1253](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kim1253)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/47 "2020-02-10T22:42:34Z")
Thanks for your update since you developed this program!!
Your batch cover art program is the best of the best.
Definitely Two thumb up.
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### Author:  [@n13](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/n13)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2020, 3:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/48 "2020-06-14T03:44:29Z")
Why is this when i run amazon search, i get some crappy image, but while trying discogs, i get none at all?!
DisCoverArt.exe "Runic" "Liar Flags" [amazon.com](http://amazon.com) 1 0 1 1 jpg 1 0
DisCoverArt.exe "Runic" "Liar Flags" [discogs.com](http://discogs.com) 1 0 1 1 jpg 1 0
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### Author:  [@swordsman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/swordsman)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/49 "2021-01-29T20:34:52Z")
Hi.
I noticed that discoverart.exe stopped working about 27.01.21
Before that date all was Ok.
Now it doesn't work - tested at several PCs, on different Windows (7, 10, x32 & x64).
If look in task manager, discoverart loads and after 1 or 2 seconds unloads without any results. EXE redownloaded - no changes.
Thanks for help
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### Author:  [@xplorr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/xplorr)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2021, 10:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/50 "2021-02-01T10:49:08Z")
Indeed Google changed its search engine output again.
Working on new version.
Keep looking for new version 2.8.0.1
Should be ready soon (see first post of this thread).
If you like my free programming support, consider to [buy me a coffee here](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=SHS4WVEF996LJ)
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### Author:  [@jrsousa2](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jrsousa2)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2021, 12:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/51 "2021-04-10T00:07:39Z")
I have just downloaded, followed the instructions and it's not working.
Any chance you tell me what's wrong this time?
It shows the cover and asks me to confirm Y/N, but when I select Y it doesn't embed the cover.
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### Author:  [@swordsman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/swordsman)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/52 "2021-07-01T19:37:12Z")
Hi.
I noticed that discoverart.exe 2.8.0.1 again stopped working nearly at end of June
Before that all was Ok.
Now it doesn't work - tested at several PCs, on different Windows (7, 10, x32 & x64).
If look in task manager, discoverart loads and after 3 or 4 seconds unloads without any results. EXE redownloaded - no changes.
Thanks for help and beautiful program.
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### Author:  [@xplorr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/xplorr)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2021, 8:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/53 "2021-07-06T08:57:31Z")
Read manual: you need to create an action "Save Cover Art" to add the generated .jpg to the mp3
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### Author:  [@xplorr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/xplorr)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2021, 10:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/54 "2021-07-06T10:19:40Z")
Fixed in new version 2.9.0.1 (see above)
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### Author:  [@Dutch](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Dutch)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2021, 11:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/55 "2021-07-30T11:18:50Z")
Great tool, I love it!
Just a question.. Could it be that there is a limit or timeout on the Google image search api?
I noticed that everything is working great until I've done about 500+ searches or so and then I simply don't get any more images back.. I don't get an error, still get popup windows, but no more images are returned or stored..
and if so.. is that a limit per day? per hour? per ip address? or do I simply clear the cache somewhere?
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### Author:  [@xplorr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/xplorr)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2021, 8:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/56 "2021-08-01T08:49:14Z")
The logic behind Google blocking is not clear.
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### Author:  [@dadarkman808](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dadarkman808)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2022, 9:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/57 "2022-05-20T21:08:38Z")
It seems that the bit.ly link for the file is "BLOCKED" on [bit.ly.com](http://bit.ly.com)
I'm running MP3Tag 3.14 with DisCoverArt 2.7.0.1 which gives me an error message that the mp3 files "cannot be accessed.". So, I wanted to see if the latest version could fix the issue.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/58 "2022-05-20T21:23:04Z")
> [@dadarkman808](#):
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> which gives me an error message that the mp3 files "cannot be accessed.
Perhaps your MP3 files have to be checked ...
see
> [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633):
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> It’s required and often helps to reduce support cycles to check files for errors before filing a bug report. Symptoms of erroneous files are often missing or wrong bitrate or length audible blips or skips tags seem to be sticky and cannot be removed There are some really good tools to check the files for errors, namely MP3 Diags — identifies many different issues in MP3 files Website: [http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net) Download: [MP3 Diags - Getting MP3 Diags](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/010_getting_the_program.html#binWindows) If the font size in MP3 Diags is …
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### Author:  [@wbtcpip](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/wbtcpip)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2022, 3:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/59 "2022-07-14T15:35:45Z")
discoverart.exe 2.9.0.1 stopped working in the european union countries ...google changed something again ... hope you can investigate the problem and bypass the changes
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### Author:  [@xplorr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/xplorr)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/60 "2022-08-04T14:24:58Z")
Just released a new version 2.10.0.1.
You can download it above in the first post.
**Important remark:**
DisCoverArt was completely rewritten using Yandex iso Google, because Google forces a "Before You Continue" page, forcing you to accept cookies.
Google does not allow you to anonymously use their web search engine.
Since Yandex image search is not as powerful as Google image search, it's best to use it in combination with the site parameter, to limit results from specific sites like [discogs.com](http://discogs.com) or [amazon.com](http://amazon.com)
Note that the "exclude a site from results" feature is not available on Yandex AFAIK.
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### Author:  [@wbtcpip](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/wbtcpip)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/61 "2022-08-04T15:24:06Z")
first of all thank you for your work and for your intervention. I don't find it safe or appropriate to use a Russian search engine, wouldn't it have been better to use bing for example? I hope that in the future discoverart.exe will be able to work without yandex. For the moment I have made the switch to "sacad" that do not use russian engines but hope to go back to using discoverart.exe in the future.
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### Author:  [@xplorr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/xplorr)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discoverart-batch-import-album-cover-art-based-on-artist-and-title/14521/62 "2022-08-09T15:21:10Z")
If you don't trust Yandex, you shouldn't trust Google either (even less). Google and by extension Facebook (Meta) know more about you than you would ever suspect.
In previous versions of DisCoverArt, I used the Google Search Engine anonymously. Unfortunately, this is currently no longer possible. Google forces the use of cookies and that you accept this. I currently use Yandex completely anonymously, and the results are jpegs. No cookies or trackers are saved after an album art query. So I think this is reliable.
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