User:Nikki/CAA
Image information
Firefox and Opera have an image information dialog (right click on the image) which displays the format of the image, however not all versions detect the correct format. To check whether it works in your browser, look at the image information of this image. If it says PNG, it's detected the format correctly. If it says JPEG, it hasn't.
Various (command line) ways to find the format of an image:
file FILENAME
identify FILENAME
(requires imagemagick)sips -g all FILENAME
(OSX only?)- [last resort]
hexdump -C FILENAME | head -n 1
(most image formats have headers that describe their type, notably excluding JPEG, but JPEG files begin with 'ff d8')
Better images
Getting better images from various sites:
iTunes
Replace 170x170
(or sometimes 100x100
) in the image URL with 600x600
or 1200x1200
. Be wary of upscaled images if using the 1200x1200 versions.
Amazon
Replace ._SL500_AA300_.jpg
or ._SS400_.jpg
at the end of the URL with just .jpg
(sometimes the letters and numbers are slightly different but it always starts with a dot and an underscore). This will usually get rid of any white borders around the image too.
Some images show 160 pixels large after replacing the ._*_.jpg
part by .jpg
as shown above. In such a case try replacing ._*_.jpg
by ._SCRM_.jpg
. This works for example on URLs beginning with http://z2-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/
. There are probably stored the zooming images.
For Firefox and Chrome users, a browser plugin exists that might be useful: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/picturefox/ / https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imageflow-for-amazon-pict/ioooblebbaaaejjfocneckhopdpdngnh
Discogs
Click the image to go to the page with the full images. Even when there isn't a "more images" link, the page will often have a larger front image.
Jamendo
Replace 1.100.jpg
, 1.200.jpg
, etc., at the end of the URL with 1.0.jpg
Magnatune
Replace cover_50.jpg
, cover_160.jpg
, etc., at the end of the URL with cover.jpg
Last.fm
Replace serve/300x300
, serve/500
, etc., with serve/_
Soundcloud
Replace t500x500.jpg
(or whatever) with original.jpg
at the end of the URL (you can just remove the question mark after .jpg
and anything after it)
VGMdb
You need to register/log in to access high resolution images.
AllMusic
In URLs beginning http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_*/
replace JPG_*
by JPG_1080
. This will give you a picture with the smallest size 1080 pixels. (The known supported sizes are: 75, 170, 250, 400, 500, 1080.)
Some albums have also the back cover stored. Try to increase the number at the end of the URL by 1.
Bandcamp
Bandcamp images are served from e.g. http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a4245412000_10.jpg
(or _2.jpg
for thumbnails). Replace the end with _0.jpg
to get the original.
45cat
Images can be found by clicking on "Link to this image". From the image URL, change the trailing part "-s" from "-s.jpg"
CD Baby
Replace .jpg
with _large.jpg
to get a 600x600 image.
Qobuz
Replace _600.jpg
with _max.jpg
to get the biggest image available.