Change or Put a New Album Cover Photo for a MP3 Song on Windows 7
Windows Media Player can be a useful application to manage your music, even if you don't use it to listen. This wikiHow will teach you how to change an album cover for a MP3 song on Windows 7.
Contents
10 Second Summary
1. Open Windows Media Player.
2. Open the Library view.
3. Find the album or song that you want to find the art for.
4. Right-click on the album.
5. Select "Find album info."
Steps
Searching for Album Art
- Ensure you are connected to the internet. In order for Windows Media Player to automatically search for album art, Windows will need to be connected to the network. As long as you can load a webpage, Windows Media Player should be able to connect to the online database.
- Open Windows Media Player. You can use Windows Media Player to search for and apply album art found on its online database. This is useful if you weren't connected to the internet while you were ripping the album, or you ripped the album using a different program which didn't grab album art.
- Open the Library view. If you're in the Now Playing mode, click the "Switch to Library" option to view your music library.
- Find the album or song that you want to find the art for. Scroll through the Music library until you find the album that you want to edit. If the album doesn't have album art, it will have a musical note instead.
- Right-click on the album and select "Find album info." Windows Media Player will automatically search its online database and try to match your album. If it can find a match, the official album art will be automatically downloaded to your computer.
- If Windows Media Player can't find the album art, see the next section for adding it manually.
Adding Art Manually
- Understand how album art works. MP3 files support an image as "Album Art." This image will serve as the album art image for every song in that album. Because of how MP3 files work, you cannot set different images for different songs in the same album.
- Find and download the image that you want to set as the album art. If you want to use the official image for the album, perform a Google Images search for the album name. Right-click on the image and select "Save" to download it to your computer. The larger the album image is, the better quality it will appear in the Now Playing window.
- If you can't find official album art, or you want art for a mix you've created, you can make your own album image. Open a program like Paint or Photoshop and create a new 600 x 600 px image. This will ensure that the image is high quality and displays well in Windows Media Player.
- Copy the downloaded file. Once you've saved the image to your computer, you'll need to copy it. You can do this by right-clicking on the image file and selecting "Copy," or by highlighting it and pressing Ctrl+C.
- Open Windows Media Player. You can quickly open Windows Media Player from the Start menu.
- Find the song or album that you want to change the image for. You'll need to be in Library view in order to find the song or album that you want to change. You can browse through All Music or "Albums" to find the right one. You won't be able to change the album art if you are in Artist or Genre view. Note: "Paste album art" option will appear only if you have copied the required album art first.
- Right-click on the current album art. If there isn't any album art yet, it will be a picture of a musical note.
- Select "Paste album art." The image that you copied to your clipboard will be made that song or album's new album art. It may take a while to apply the album art to large albums.
- This will permanently delete any existing album art, so if you want to switch back to the old image you'll need to find the image file and repeat the process.
