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iTunes cover art is of much higher quality than Amazon's because it is more predictable and, I guess, it comes directly from official music distributors.
If an iTunes link is added as relationship to a release, as I just did on https://musicbrainz.org/release/b142b0cc-6e97-4d29-b8ca-af9d5657ece5 , the MB server would have to scrap the iTunes page and find the cover art image URL, which would be:
This is a lowres 170×170 cover art image. But, if you change the last part of the URL for a deliberately big number, such as "3000x3000.jpg", you'll get the best resolution image, probably the highest resolution that the music distributor sent to Apple. In this case you'll get a 2400×2400 jpeg of 2MB size. Try it:
This is very predictable and never fails so I think it would be easy to implement on musicbrainz.org and very useful for the community.
Thank you in advance
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MBS-4641 Add cover art by URL
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[MBS-9286] Add support for hires cover art scrapped from iTunes web site
| Resolution | New: Won't Fix [ 2 ] | |
| Status | Original: Open [ 1 ] | New: Closed [ 6 ] |
| Issue Type | Original: Bug [ 1 ] | New: Improvement [ 4 ] |
| Description |
Original:
iTunes cover art is of much higher quality than Amazon's because it is more predictable and, I guess, it comes directly from official music distributors.
If an iTunes link is added as relationship to a release, as I just did on [https://musicbrainz.org/release/b142b0cc-6e97-4d29-b8ca-af9d5657ece5] , the MB server would have to scrap the iTunes page and find the cover art image URL, which would be: [http://is1.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music1/v4/27/b2/e6/27b2e6f6-6b9b-114c-337b-5f0862b65da1/source/170x170bb.jpg] This is a lowres 170×170 cover art image. But, if you change the last part of the URL for a deliberately big number, such as "3000x3000.jpg", you'll get the best resolution image, probably the highest resolution that the music distributor sent to Apple. In this case you'll get a 2400×2400 jpeg of 2MB size. Try it: [http://is1.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music1/v4/27/b2/e6/27b2e6f6-6b9b-114c-337b-5f0862b65da1/source/3000x3000.jpg] This is very predictable and never fails. Thank you in advance |
New:
iTunes cover art is of much higher quality than Amazon's because it is more predictable and, I guess, it comes directly from official music distributors.
If an iTunes link is added as relationship to a release, as I just did on [https://musicbrainz.org/release/b142b0cc-6e97-4d29-b8ca-af9d5657ece5] , the MB server would have to scrap the iTunes page and find the cover art image URL, which would be: [http://is1.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music1/v4/27/b2/e6/27b2e6f6-6b9b-114c-337b-5f0862b65da1/source/170x170bb.jpg] This is a lowres 170×170 cover art image. But, if you change the last part of the URL for a deliberately big number, such as "3000x3000.jpg", you'll get the best resolution image, probably the highest resolution that the music distributor sent to Apple. In this case you'll get a 2400×2400 jpeg of 2MB size. Try it: [http://is1.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music1/v4/27/b2/e6/27b2e6f6-6b9b-114c-337b-5f0862b65da1/source/3000x3000.jpg] This is very predictable and never fails so I think it would be easy to implement on musicbrainz.org and very useful for the community. Thank you in advance |
| Description |
Original:
iTunes cover art is of much higher quality than Amazon's because, I guess, it is more predictable and it comes directly from official music distributors.
If an iTunes link is added as relationship to a release, as I just did on [https://musicbrainz.org/release/b142b0cc-6e97-4d29-b8ca-af9d5657ece5] , the MB server would have to scrap the iTunes page and find the cover art image URL, which would be: [http://is1.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music1/v4/27/b2/e6/27b2e6f6-6b9b-114c-337b-5f0862b65da1/source/170x170bb.jpg] This is a lowres 170×170 cover art image. But, if you change the last part of the URL for a deliberately big number, such as "3000x3000.jpg", you'll get the best resolution image, probably the highest resolution that the music distributor sent to Apple. In this case you'll get a 2400×2400 jpeg of 2MB size. Try it: [http://is1.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music1/v4/27/b2/e6/27b2e6f6-6b9b-114c-337b-5f0862b65da1/source/3000x3000.jpg] This is very predictable and never fails. Thank you in advance |
New:
iTunes cover art is of much higher quality than Amazon's because it is more predictable and, I guess, it comes directly from official music distributors.
If an iTunes link is added as relationship to a release, as I just did on [https://musicbrainz.org/release/b142b0cc-6e97-4d29-b8ca-af9d5657ece5] , the MB server would have to scrap the iTunes page and find the cover art image URL, which would be: [http://is1.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music1/v4/27/b2/e6/27b2e6f6-6b9b-114c-337b-5f0862b65da1/source/170x170bb.jpg] This is a lowres 170×170 cover art image. But, if you change the last part of the URL for a deliberately big number, such as "3000x3000.jpg", you'll get the best resolution image, probably the highest resolution that the music distributor sent to Apple. In this case you'll get a 2400×2400 jpeg of 2MB size. Try it: [http://is1.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music1/v4/27/b2/e6/27b2e6f6-6b9b-114c-337b-5f0862b65da1/source/3000x3000.jpg] This is very predictable and never fails. Thank you in advance |