Hi Mads_H,
I have tried several ways & Web sites to download CD cover art but was always dissatisfied with the results.
Problems encountered were...
* Had to hunt around through many sites to find rare or out of print CD covers.
* Many covers did not match the actual cover on my CD (many were taken from vinyl records which sometimes have a different, or slightly different, cover or were European or Asian versions for the cover art... I live in the States).
* The scanning of the covers were sometimes less then professional (poor image quality, poor color match, low resolution, etc.)
I finally gave up on trying to acquire all my covert art from the Internet.
Since I have a wonderful HP color scanner, I decided to scan them in myself... a wise choice in the long run.
As it turned out, after playing around with several scans, I discovered that I could actually get my cover art much faster from my own scanner then I could from the Internet. Also, I could completely control the whole scanning process to get the final results that I was looking for.
Once I had my scanner setup determined, I would scan 15 - 20 covers in a row. This went surprisingly fast after getting the hang of it.
I wanted all my covers to end up at 1000 x 1000 pixels, so I scanned each in at 400 dots per inch. As each cover is 5 inches this produced a 2000 x 2000 (400 dpi x 5 inch) scan.
I then edited each cover in Adobe Photoshop Elements II & reduced the size to 1000 x 1000. Over scanning at twice the desired final resolution then reducing to one half (2000 reduced to 1000) has the effect of removing most interference patterns caused by the scanning process.
I used Adobe to clean up imperfections, square & crop the image to the final size.
What I ended up with were exact copies of all of my CD covers in the exact resolution that I wanted with great color control.
The final results are some really great images in MC.