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Amazon covers are too small and low quality.
Surely not all of them. I just ran a little test, and here's the resolution of the covers that I downloaded from Amazon on some randomly selected titles:
1500 x 1500
INTO THE WOODS
FURY
THE IMITATION GAME
NIGHTCRAWLER
ST. VINCENT
ROSEWATER
GONE GIRL
PINOCCHIO
FANTASIA
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
WHIPLASH
BIG HERO 6
JOHN WICK
1425 x 1425
INTERSTELLAR
THE HOBBIT: BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES
1248 x 1248
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
INHERENT VICE
1085 x 1085
UNBROKEN
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
980 x 980
EDGE OF TOMORROW
THE GREAT GATSBY
500 x 500
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1
BIRDMAN
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Apr 21, 2015 - 4:23 AM
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MCurry29
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Can anyone check if the Album Art Exchange website is working or not?
http://www.albumartexchange.com/
Some pages work (e.g. the main Home Page in the link above), but searching for titles no longer brings back any results, and the Log In page throws up an error.
I've been using it heavily for the past few days, to get covers of my CD collection, and wonder if I've used up all their monthly bandwidth (I've downloaded about 500 so far). 
I noticed there's a donation option, which I will do once it's working for me again, as I still need to get more covers from it and it's been a godsend for what I want to do. It's been my first place to go to, and only if I don't find something do I then use Google to see what I can find (with varying degrees of quality).
EDIT: Reading the other posts in this thread, I'm accessing it from the UK and had no problems up until today.
So, do you buy cd's without covers? Or do you make nice lil' cd's-with cases and artwork from your downloads? Or.....
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Apr 21, 2015 - 5:11 AM
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The Thing
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So, do you buy cd's without covers? Or do you make nice lil' cd's-with cases and artwork from your downloads? Or.....
Too big of a backlog to scan.
Done all that before, and can't be bothered with with scanning and Photoshopping this time around, unless I can't find a decent one online. It's too time-consuming, and my end results aren't as good.
I've already been through LLL and Intrada (etc.) to download what I need, and was then using AAX as I went through my list, and anything I couldn't find on there I then used Google.
I want the covers for importing my CDs into iTunes for my iPod... I'm a perfectionist, so won't settle for raw scans or sub-standard quality like some that I find on the internet.
Anything I'm left with at the end of this, I'll scan myself. But I'd prefer just be left with maybe a couple of hundred to scan myself, rather than a couple of thousand.
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i kinda wish there was a site devoted to the back of lp's so you can see the back. often times i've needed to see the back, but can't. Great site though.
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Agreed that you can do pretty well on Google, although you do indeed need to vary your searches sometimes... occasionally writing the title and the composer name works, but sometimes the title and "soundtrack" works better. It can be good for random LP art which is sometimes rather nice to have, especially if it's a re-release that contains the full score plus the original LP programme.
On a somewhat related note, does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to find alternate artwork? Sometimes it can be vastly better than the actual artwork or can be a nice fan reworking of the existing art. I know there's a thread for alternates album artwork, but most of them are just pasted into the thread and it's hard to search, sometimes impossible as the titles aren't always mentioned in the text. Would be nice to have a central resource for places where alterante artwork is available.
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