mine is not a technical question but a moral one, I don't intend to use anything that comes from russia that's why I was sorry to see that discoverart.exe now uses yandex. I hope one day you will change your mind. In the meantime I have replaced discoverart.exe with sacad.exe
Thank you for this tool!
However, there seems to be a VERY restrictive limiter to how many calls you can do in a certain amount of time. I selected a couple of hundred files and a bunch of terminal windows flashed by. Afterwards I had like 5 pictures downloaded, all from the beginning of the list of selected files.
Running singular files afterwards doesn't work either. I have to wait for an extended period of time to try again. You can immediately tell when it's working since the terminal stays up for a second or so.
I tried to run it manually in a terminal, but the command immediately just finishes. There's no output of an error message. Is there a way to see the error?
Then I waited some time and tried again and the exact same command downloaded a file. Can one assume that the same command will download the same file every time? I mean, provided that the search results don't change over time of course. Or could it be that it (for some reason) is not finding anything most of the time, but if you keep trying it suddenly finds an image?
Is there maybe a way to make it run slowly, one by one, sort of below the radar? I don't mind letting it sit for days, just as long as it's automatic.
@InterClaw did you manage a work around this issue, please?
@xplorr well done on your tool. Is there a possibility to extend it by adding a pause after every iteration, please? Seems like the 'x' which you mention in the readme is like 2 or 3 images at most.
@yancho No, I gave up on this. 
I released version 2.11.0.1
DisCoverArt was rewritten again using Google iso Yandex
You can download it here: http://bit.ly/3aT8RNM
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It all doesn't seem to work, at least for me - the console appears with a black screen, hangs for a while and then disappears. Nothing happens, nothing is downloaded anywhere.
Try this in a command prompt (cmd.exe):
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mp3tag\DisCoverArt.exe" "Coldplay" "Viva La Vida" all 1 0 300 300 jpeg 10 1
You should find 10 jpegs in the current directory.
If this works you can try:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mp3tag\DisCoverArt.exe" "Keane" "Everybody's Changing" discogs.com 0 0 500 500 jpeg 5 0
This will show an interactive dialog with images. You can select yes or no or cancel.
If both tests work for you, you can integrate it in mp3tag as described.
Note: Discogs.com now mostly uses jpeg iso jpg, so please adapt your code also in mp3tag!
Discoverart stopped working this week. The console appears with a black screen, hangs for a while and then disappears. Nothing happens, nothing is downloaded.
Last week all was Ok
I released version 2.14.0.1
DisCoverArt Google fix
You can download it here: http://bit.ly/3aT8RNM
Now itâs working. Thanks alot
This looks a good tool, but Iâm trying to download the image for the whole album (not each track). I found that on one disc it found a different image for a particular track (it was an image with the track name in it rather than the album).
So, I created a new Tool based on the parameter: "%artist%" "%album%" discogs.com 0 1 300 300 jpeg 1 1
Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnât. Initially I thought it didnât because an image didnât exist, but I know it does.
If I go to https://www.discogs.com/release/24519251-Hollie-Rogers-Criminal-Heart then there is an image for the album, but running:
DisCoverArt "Hollie Rogers" "Criminal Heart" xxx 0 1 300 300 jpeg 1 1
(where xxx is the correct web link - I just canât put more than two in a post as a new userâŚ)
does not return any image (and when I run the tool within MP3Tag it doesnât receive any image).
For a different album, the tool did download an image within MP3Tag, but still didnât work running it manually (I was just trying to confirm).
Is there a reason that itâs not working on all albums where an image does exist?
DisCoverArt relies on a Google Image query.
It may be possible that the image actually exists on discogs but that Google did not index it (yet).
Did you try to manually search the image using Google image search and add discogs to limit the site?
example Google Search:
"Hollie Rogers" "Criminal Heart" site:discogs.com
Check if your desired correct size 300x300 is amongst the results.
Remark: currently Google has limited the number of free programmatic image queries that you can perform per day. If you run against that limit, you have to wait another day.
A Google search returns several images, the first is the right one but is 600x529. I didnât appreciate that the size had to match exactly. Thatâs useful info.
I tried 600 529 instead (and the opposite) on a command line but itâs still not working.
Question: Should it work on the command line and save the image to the same folder I run it from if itâs going to work in MP3Tag?
I also tried a size of 0 0 (according to the output of running Discoverart with no parameters that should be any size and square or rectangular. Still didnât get any result. I also retried with an album that worked, still nothing saved.
It looks like the limit might be only 100 free searches per day. Is that right? I did way more than that yesterday - I wonder when the limit resets (per day or 24h after starting?).
Out of interest, is there any option that will provide more diagnostics output so that I can see whatâs happening?
I guess you ran against the daily limit. This limit did not exist a few years ago when I wrote DisCoverArt. Unfortunately.
There is no diagnostics output.
If you manually download an image and name it the same way you named your mp3 file, you can add it using the âSave Cover Artâ action in mp3tag.
I did some testing today and it seems that Google once again changed/blocked free programmatic image search. I have to dive into the code.
But you said it still worked yesterday? StrangeâŚ
Yep, I managed to download quite a lot of images yesterday and added them to my MP3 files.
Strange, here in Europe it now is completely impossible to scrape google image search outside of the browser.
You can still use their api, but it cannot search exact widths and heightsâŚ
Also ChatGPT confirms it is now virtually impossible to imitate a browser when using the old Google image search.
So I see no options to fix my tool this time. 
DisCoverArt version 2.14.0.1 stopped working since march 2026, because Google hardened scraping protection across Search and Images gradually in many countries. Google now performs a JavaScript (bot) verification step, which makes it virtually impossible to scrape images outside a browser. This makes it quite impossible to fix DisCoverArt using Google Image Search.
In the meanwhile, I have created an alternate semi-automatic method to find and update coverart using mp3tag.
You can read it on my webpage of DisCoverArt under the topic: Important remark since version 2.14.0.1