I used a combination of PowerAmp CD Ripper (PC) and CoverScout (Mac) to rip the CD and search for deent artwork. It is a bit tedious but I have managed to get fairly decent cover artwork. I do use a Mac with Windows emulation which made the whole process of using these two bits of software very easy. Most of the time CD Ripper came up with a good cover. Do a google search to get this program.

I normally used to use the beoplayer software.

Just drag a picture on the albumcover and it will be replaced with the new one.

As above,  you can utilize the Media Centre / Media Player album cover search, or drag the associated album cover photo onto the album.

PC: Another option is to find a JPEG Image you like from any Image search engine, and save it into any file in My Pictures ( or My Photos ).  This can be a good copy of the actual album cover, or perhaps another picture or art  image you associate with the artist or music.  It's up to you as it is your Beosound 5 system,  so feel free to personalize it.

You can then open Media Center / Player, go back into My Pictures, click " copy " on the selected picture file, and then select the " paste album art " option onto the Media Center / Player album.

For years I've tried scanning pictures, and then downsizing to 500 x 500 : Mon Dieu !     A lot of extra work today, when it is usually available on the NET somewhere.

I have done as SWISS_2 sugests, drop the scanned image on the image that Windows Media Player found.

/MikaelB

Thank you very much, I'm gonna check the Windows Media Player option and will look on the web for scans >500x500 Pixel parallel to my own scans.

Many selected music images can be shadow bordered, grossly too large, dull colour, or not quite square ( odd shapped rectangles  ).  If selected and imported,  your music system player then replicates these flaws, and may even attempt to adjust the size.  Lady Tron becomes Wagner's Brunhilde, so to speak.

Looking now at our Album playlist, more than 31% of the music images required a bit of cropping, colour balance and enhancement, and size scaling to 500 x 500.  Another 11%  are actually (my term)  " Associated Art, "  and not the original album cover.

Another suggested technique is to first save the image you like in My Photos, or My Pictures, adjust them accordingly using either Hypersnap, or some other Photo Editor program, then save the corrected image back into a " Beoplayer " file in My Photos, delete the original (too much HD clutter), and then copy/paste the enhanced image into Media Player or Media Center.  Your desired and enhanced image is then picked up into the B&O music system accordingly, and automatically.

I hope this is also helpful.

Hi,

your tips are helpful. Now I found out that only Windows Media Player 11 is able to manage "paste album art...". I didn't find that option inside Windows media Playe 10.

BUT I still have a problem with the album art: I used my own, scanned, high res album art pictures, scaled them down to 500x500 pixel, sharpened them etc. They are all saved on an external HDD in my folder "album_art_500x500". I marked a picture, copied it and then pasted it via Windows Media Player 11.
Then I transfered the WMA losless music file to the Beosound 5. On the Beosound 5 the album cover looks awful and it is NOT the 500x500 pixel image. Windows Media Player seems to size it down :-(

I tested it with an MP3-File and pasted the same high resolution 500x500 pixel cover to it; transfered it to the Beosound 5... eh voila: It looks perfect! Absolutely NO comparision to the awful look of the WMA losless album art.
But I don't use a 5000 Euro Soundsystem to play MP3s!

So, how can I get the Beosound 5 to display the highresolution 500x500 pixel cover??? :-(

I think you should try to install the Beoplayer software.

At the end of installing it will ask you if you own a Beomedia or Beosound. You'll have to enter the password.

I have a Beomedia which probably works almost the same way.

After starting the  beoplayer, you will see on the left side your collection of albums (without actually having it on your computer).

Then you are also able to pick and drag a cover to the album and see if that works. Mayby this way it will maintain your original resolution.

Ok, here’s the method I use:-

·         I use Beoplayer, WMP10 and a photo-editing program (Photoshop or similar).

·         Rip the CD to lossless on WMP10

·         Edit the tags as you see fit (in WMP10). I have a method which works very well with the BS5 indexing which usually requires some work. Each to their own.

·         I prepare all my album covers with a photo-editor package. I manipulate the covers to the best dresses condition and a minimum of 500 x 500 and store in an Album Cover file.

·         I find that “blurring” the image very slightly removes some of the “interference” rastering you have on high-res net uploads when people scan the covers with the clear disc case still attached (why do they do this?).

·         Next, using Beoplayer, (I find this a very effective tool for removing the old low-res album art that with came with the IP tag data system), I do a full scan. Then using right-click, delete the album cover.

·         Next, I re-scan the WMP10 music directory.

·         Next I select the tracks I want the new album art on.

·         Right click “Advanced Tag Editor”

·         Select “Pictures”

·         Select “Add” then using the dialogue box, find you’re image,

·         Select OK and wait a minute for it to embed.

·         You should not have a fully embedded high-res image on those file.

·         Scan Beolpayer once more. If connected to the BeoSound 5, this should synchronise everything.

·         Enjoy you’re new Cover Art on the BS5!

There may be quicker ways to do this (I’ve never tried them), I just find that this works for me. Sorry if this is repetitive and out-of-date for all.

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