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The Cover Manager
With amaroK, you can assign a cover to each album of your collection. With the Cover
Manager, easily add, delete, and retrieve album covers.
Start the cover manager with Tools > Cover Manager. A tree view in the left part of
the window lists all artists in your collection. The main part of the window lists the
covers of all albums. To filter the covers displayed, click an individual artist in the tree
view or enter a term in the input field at the top of the window. Use View to toggle be-
tween displaying all albums, albums with covers, or albums without covers.
There are three different methods for assigning covers to the albums:
Automatically Assign Covers
amaroK can automatically fetch all missing covers displayed in the main windows
from Amazon. Use Amazon Locale to determine from which Amazon Web server
the covers should be fetched then click Fetch Missing Covers.
IMPORTANT: Proper Tagging Needed
amaroK fetches the covers from Amazon using the query string
Artist
- Album
. This information is extracted from the tags of your music files.
The better they are tagged, the better the hit rate is when automatically
fetching covers.
Manually Choose a Cover Fetched from Amazon
If you want more control over what image to use and what query string to use to
retrieve a cover, right-click an album in the main window and choose Fetch from
amazon. Next Cover lets you cycle through all images available. Save selects the
actual cover and assigns it to the album selected. If you are not satisfied with the
covers displayed, use New Search to refine the search. Use Amazon Locale from
the toolbar of the main window to determine from which Amazon Web server the
covers should be fetched.
Manually Assign Covers
If you already have your own cover images, you can assign them by right-clicking
an album and choosing Set Custom Image.
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