How To Add Album Cover Artwork To MP3 Songs

MP3 records are the most loved and popular formats for audio files all through the world because of their flexibility, portability and the small file size that they offer. Managing a music library requires some serious energy and exertion. Except if you begin with the outlook to keep things sorted out, you will in the long run end up with some tidying up to do later on.

Windows 10 supports MP3 music files as well as contains two media players that can run them without any issues. In the event that you are using Windows Media Player or the Music application (Windows 8 and 10), here’s how to add album art in windows media player along with a few other ways to change album art.

However, before going further into the discussion, let’s first get to know ‘What is an album art?’ 

What is an album art:

Album Art is the little picture shown out of sight when a specific song/album is being played. Regularly, the image is pre-chosen by the music creators. Be that as it may, this picture can undoubtedly be changed utilizing practically any music playing programming. Hence, in this article, we will show you various strategies of ‘how to change album art’ or ‘how to add an album cover to a song’. 

How to add album art to music:

Album Art can very easily be added to any MP3 file. Here are a few ways of adding album art to mp3 in windows 10.

1. Adding Album Art using Windows Media Player:

Changing or adding an Album Art is a very simple task in Windows Media Player. One of the most useful features offered by Windows Media Player is its ability to add Album Arts to any album without much effort. You just need to add up all the music files to the Media Player Library before carrying out the following procedure:

1. Launch Windows Media Player and navigate to the Album section under Music.

2. Search and copy the image which you wish to use as Album Art.

3. Navigate to the location where you’ve saved the image, right-click it and select Copy to copy the album art via File Explorer which is also known as Windows Explorer.

4. Navigate to the Album section in Windows Media Player and paste the copied album art on the preferred album.

5. Once you have completed the add album art to music, it should look somewhat like this.Also Watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPqm5IAbjdc

2. Add Album Art through Groove:

Groove serves as the default media player in the Store app of Windows 10. It uses the Windows Universal API meaning that it works across all the Windows platforms i.e., mobile, notebook, desktop. Adding up album art to an album is is even easier in Groove. You just have to follow the below steps:

1. Launch Groove from the Start menu.
2. Navigate to My music and click the Albums tag.

3. Locate the desired album for which you want to change the Album Art.

4. Navigate to the three dotted button and click it. Now select Edit info from the menu that just opened.

5. Now select the album art from File Explorer/ Windows Explorer), and click on Open option to add it to the album. Finally, click Save.

6. Now the new changed image should be visible in the Album art section in Groove.

Also watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaBsxj5XZPA

3. Adding Album Art through VLC Media Player :

VLC is the most popular Media Player among PC users. It can also be used to easily add Album Art to MP3 files. To do so follow the below steps:

1. First download the image that you want to be displayed as Album Art.
2. Right–click on the MP3 file, drag the pointer to “Open With” and select “VLC Media Player” to play the file with from the list.

1. Click on the “Tools” tab on the top of the screen and select the “Media Information” option.
2. On the bottom right side of the window, the current Album Art can be seen, right–click on it and select the “Add Cover Art from file” option.

3. Navigate to the folder which contains the Album Art which you want to add and double-click on it to select it.

4. Click on “Close” and the image will be implemented as the Album art automatically.

Also watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE6Vd3H65lU

4. Adding Album Art Using LAME with Command Prompt:

LAME is an MP3 encoder. It s also the basic software behind many MP3 converters out there. It is a console application therefore, via Command Prompt any music file or Album Art can be modified.

1. Click here to download the LAME executable file.
2. Then move your music files collection to a specifically created folder named as music inside the LAME folder.

3. Now simply open Command Prompt, type out and execute the following command lines:

cd <folder where the lame encoder is extracted>

<drive letter:> (only if it’s in a different partition)

for %f in (“music\*.mp3”) do lame.exe –ti “music\art.jpg” “%f” “music\out\%~nf.mp3”

5. Change Album picture using Easy File Renamer:

Easy File Renamer is an end user application. It is designed to perform a wide variety of tasks related to renaming files. It even allows you to rename files in Google Drive, MP3 songs, renames and edit metadata for iTunes songs and edits tags for MP3 songs. So, lets see how we can use it to Edit Music Album Art:

1. Click here to download Easy File Renamer .
2. Launch the software and click on the Rename tab.

3. Now go to the MP3/ID3 Tags button.

4. Click Mp3 Files and add those file(s) for which you wish to change the Album Art.

5. Now click on Bulk Tag Editor.

6. Add the Album Art to the selected MP3 files and then click on Update.

7. Finally, click on Rename to add album art to songs.

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I hope by now you guys have figured out a way for how to change music album picture. You can use any of the above methods to add cover art to your music files.