How to Add Album Art to MP3

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Album art or cover is nothing but a photo that is somehow related to the music of the album. The album cover makes meaningful sense to the music. Sometimes listeners also able to get the deeper meaning of the music just by album art.

Moreover, the album art also helps in making a distinct identity in the music shop or online store. We can say that the album cover is for three purposes:

1. Helpful to artists to give the listener more emotional attachment and more sense to the songs
2. Provides identification to the album from the millions of albums out there
3. Helpful in the marketing of the album and band or artist

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How to Add Album Art Cover on mp3

There are a couple of ways to add albun art to MP3. One can easily change album cover on Windows, macOS, Android using inbuilt options in Media players as well as using dedicated android apps.

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1. Add Album Art to MP3 on Windows

• To add an album cover through Windows media player open the Windows Media Player and import the music files. Make sure you are connected to the internet.
• In the left sidebar, click on the music and then albums.
• You can download the music info of all the albums at once. Right-click on any of the albums which don’t have a cover.
• Click on the second last option which is “Update album Info” and you’ll see the downloading arrow. Your album cover is now downloading and will be added simultaneously. It would take a couple of minutes to complete.
• You can also add album cover art of the particular album manually by clicking on “Find album info”. A window will appear and you need to select the album cover of the respective album.

• One more way in Media Player, just Google the album name followed by the “album cover” and copy the image. In the media player, right-click on the album and paste the image. Cover art would appear

These are the ways to add or change album cover art in Windows Media player. But, there is a problem with it. Windows Media Player finds the album cover of International Music.

If your library has songs in your local language like Hindi songs, Punjabi songs, Korean songs, Japanese songs, or any other songs that are limited within the boundaries of one nation, in that case, Windows Media Player fails to add up the album cover art.

But, you don’t need to worry we have a lot of other ways to add album cover art.

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2. Add Album Art to MP3 on iPhone & macOS (iTunes)

• Open Apple Music (known as iTunes). If you are a Windows user, you can download iTunes for free from here.
• Look for the song for which you wanted to download album art.

• Right-click on the song name and click on ‘Get Info’.

• A box will appear. Open the Artwork tab.

• Click on Add Artwork at the bottom left corner.
• Fetch the Artwork and select it. If you don’t have Artwork, you can simply download it from Google Image Search.

• Click Ok and album artwork is now added to the song.

You can follow these exact steps to add album artwork on both iPhone as well as macOS devices like Macbook, iMac, etc.

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3. Add Album Art to MP3 Using Groove Music (Groove Music Discontinued)

Groove Music has been replaced by new Media Player in Windows 11. You skip this.

If you are a Windows 10 user, then you must have familiarity with Groove Music. Groove Music is a built-in app in Windows 10 for music. We can use Groove Music as a music player and can buy the music by purchasing a Groove Music subscription.

We don’t need the Groove subscription for adding or changing album cover art. It’s absolutely free. Follow the steps for adding a cover to mp3

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• Open the Groove Music. Select a folder or drive where you want Groove Music to look for music files. After selecting, you can see all your albums. You can sort files by album, songs, and artist. See picture.
• It’s really easy to add album covers through Groove Music. Open the Groove app and Right-click on the album you want to add a cover to. Click on Edit Info. Right Click on the album art and choose the image you want to add as an album cover.

OR

•  Open the album, click on the dotted menu, and click on Find Album Info DONE!!!

Make sure you are connected to the Internet.

In the New version of Groove, you can edit the info about the album by changing the name of the song, artist, and album which searches for album art particular and relevant. This is the easiest and foolproof method. But if you are not a Windows 10 user then you cannot use this feature.

Here’s the last and the foolproof way to add album cover art to an mp3 file. Here it is

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4. Add Album Art to Mp3 Using Mp3 Tag

The mp3 tag is third-party application software available for Windows and Mac OS. It’s a free tool that allows us to add album cover art to an mp3 file manually. Moreover, we can also add metadata of the song like Album name, song name, year, genre, BPM, and composer, artist, band of the song. To add or change the album cover, follow the steps:

• Download the Mp3 Tag from here. Install and Open it.
• Click on the file in the menu and then add a directory. Choose the folder you want to add. See pictures.

Friendly Suggestion: Try to make a separate folder of the album to which you want to add the album art cover. If you select the whole folder of music files then it will be a total mess. All songs would be added to the directory. For eg. If you want to add the album cover of Drake’s View Album then add that particular album folder only.

• After adding the directory, click on any song. Fill the whole form at the left sidebar according to your need and at the last, there is space for cover. Right Click on it and add the album cover art. (you can get the album cover from Google Images)

• After adding the image, click on the floppy image right below the file to save the settings. All other songs of the same album automatically get updated.

These are quite good tools to add album cover art but can take some time as there is no automation in it. You can add the Name of the song, the artist’s name, and the album name through it and then go to Groove Music. It will take care of your song and will add the album art automatically.

So, these are all the possible ways to which you can add album art on MP3. After adding the album art, you can spot the differences in your new, clean music library. There are a lot of people out there who are very interested in album art.

These tactics are for those who listen to music on desktops or Laptops but habits are changing. According to a report, a human being these days spends around 25 hours a week listening to music. They listen to it in a car, gym, chilling out, etc. Most of the time, the only medium of music is their smartphone.

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5. Add Album Art to MP3 on an Android Smartphone

• Download Star Music tag editor app on your smartphone and open it

• You will see the list of songs on your device, choose any song to which you want to add album art.
• You can tap on “Auto Search” for automatic searching of album art on the basis of the Name of the song, album, and artist.
• Choose and add the image.

There are a couple of other apps in the Play Store but this is suitable. If you have a Sony smartphone, then it’s a lot easier for you. The built-in “Music” app lets you change or add the album cover. Play the song and tap on the dotted menu. At the last, there is Edit Music Info. Tap on it and you are good to go. Apple users can also add to iTunes.

So, in these ways, you can add album art to mp3 and along with melodious, make your music library beautiful and interactive.