Album Cover Art in Librarian and AutoCast

Your songs can now show their album covers on screen while they play. Librarian finds the covers and AutoCast displays them, automatically.

How Librarian Finds the Art

Librarian gets covers three ways:

• Pictures already in your music files. Many music files carry their album cover inside them. When new songs arrive, Librarian uses that picture straight away.
• Find Album Art. For songs without a cover, Librarian looks them up in the Cover Art Archive (MusicBrainz's free, open picture library), and in Apple iTunes for anything MusicBrainz doesn't have. Before accepting a match, it checks that the artist, title and song length really line up, and it prefers the song's original album over later reissues and budget collections. When it isn't sure, it doesn't guess: those matches wait in a Needs Review list and never go on the air until you approve them. Songs whose tags and file name disagree are listed separately, so you can fix them first.
• By hand. Drop any picture onto a song in the Attribute Editor, or copy one from a web page and click Paste. If other songs share the album, Librarian offers to use the picture for all of them.

Every cover is saved as a crisp 800×800 picture in your Station folder, one per album. Your audio files are never changed. New songs can get their covers automatically, and covers you set or remove yourself are never overridden.

How It Shows Up in AutoCast

When a song with a cover starts playing, AutoCast shows the album art in place of your station logo, set against a softly blurred copy of the same picture. When the next song has no cover, your logo comes right back. It's all automatic, with nothing to set up.

Only songs from your log or Playlist Button show art; hot buttons, carts and live sources leave the logo alone.

Getting It

Choose Check for Updates in Librarian and in AutoCast to get the latest versions.