How to Embed Album Art in the File
With the rise of digital music distribution, small record labels can reach a wider audience via the Internet. The trade-off is that digital music doesn't come in a physical case and therefore doesn't have an album cover. However, album art can still be preserved by using an ID3 tag to embed an image file within a music file. A tag editor program can make embedding album art easy--no programming skills required.
- Album art image file
- Image editing program
- ID3 tag editor
- Audio file
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Instructions
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Scan the album artwork into your computer or search for it online. Open the file in an image editing program and convert it to 200 by 200 pixels. Save it as a JPEG or PNG file.
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Open in the tag editing program the music files you want to embed the album art into. Select all the files and right-click to open a drop-down menu. Select "Extended Tags."
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Press the "Apply Album Artwork" button in the menu that pops up and select the album artwork image file. Save the music file with the new ID3 tags.