Cover Art
From MusicBrainz Wiki
Cover art, also known as "album art" or "album artwork", is artwork that provides a visual representation of a release. Normally it refers to the front of the release packaging.
[edit] In MusicBrainz website display
As cover art has legal licensing and copyright issues associated, MusicBrainz can display cover art only from approved cover art sites, linked to by a Has Cover Art At Relationship Type or the Amazon Relationship Type.
[edit] In media files
Media players that support cover art display do so in several ways, often supporting more than one mechanism. Images can be:
- stored within the media player's own internal library/database
- stored as a separate file in the same folder/directory as the release, using a naming convention (e.g. folder.jpg)
- embedded within each track's metadata info (e.g. ID3).
Picard supports the 2nd and 3rd option when used with the cover art plugin, listed on Picard Plugins.
