Add Album Art to Songs in Windows 11

Are you a music addict? Do you spend hours listening to your favorite songs and constantly looking for new music online? If so, you would know that managing a large music library can be a long, tedious job with a disaster down the line.

If you’re not managing your music library on a regular basis, chances are that the music management headache can spread up to your mobile, tablet, iPod and other devices.

Are you looking for a tool to quickly add album art to your songs in Windows 11 and quickly fix other issues with your distorted, disorganized music library? There’s an easy way to do this. Read on to find it out.

What’s Album Art, anyway?

Album Art is also often called Cover Art. Album art gives the listener a quick visual representation about the album’s content without playing it. An eye-catching album art can encourage listeners to play, stream, download or buy your music without a second thought. No matter how good a song is, a well-designed album art always adds value to it and creates a positive impression that lasts well beyond that moment. In short, album art is a crucial element of your music file’s metadata.

Where Do I Get Album Arts if I don’t have them?

If you’ve downloaded songs online from third-party websites, there’s a possibility that these songs are missing the relevant album art data. You will need to fill them yourself. Worry not, you can grab album arts from specialized album artwork sites like Discogs, MusicBrainz, etc. There are just too many. You can also type in the name of your song in Google Images to get the relevant album art for free.

How Do I Add Album Arts to My Songs?

So, you’ve downloaded the required album art? The next step is to add them to your music collection using one of the following ways:

Method 1: Manually Add Album Arts Using iTunes

If you’re using iTunes, you can manually add album art as follows.

1. If you don’t have iTunes, you can download it from here. iTunes is available both as a Microsoft Store app and a traditional standalone application.
2. Open iTunes.
3. Click on Library.
4. Select Albums from the left-hand side panel.
   
5. If this is the first time iTunes is installed on your PC, click on the File menu, select Add Folder to Library. Select the folder containing your music files and click on the Select Folder button.
6. Right-click on your music album and select Album Info.
   
   
   
7. In the new dailog, click on the Artwork tab.
   
8. Click on Add Artwork and locate the image you want to use as your album’s artwork.
9. Click on OK.

Method 2: Manually Add Album Art Using VLC Media Player

Don’t have iTunes? Not a problem. You can also use VLC Media Player to add album arts.

1. Download VLC from here.
2. Open up a music file using VLC Media Player by right-clicking the file and selecting Open with > VLC Media Player.
3. Click on Tools, select Media Information. (In the older versions of VLC, select Information).
   
4. In the Current Media Information dialog, right-click on the album art box at the lower right corner.
5. Select Download cover art to automatically find and download the relevant cover art from the Internet, or select Add cover art from file to manually select a cover art from an image file that you have already downloaded.
   
   
   
6. Click on Close (In the older versions of VLC, click on Save Metadata button).

Method 3: Automatically Add Album Arts in Batch (Recommended)

If you’re a music addict, it’s obvious that you’ll have a lot of files scattered across different drives, folders and sub-folders. You can add album arts all at once using the most recommended way below.

1. Download Easy File Renamer.
2. Install the software using the setup file you just downloaded.
3. Click on the Music Fixer tab.
4. Click on Add MP3 Files.
   
5. Select all the files in your music collection where you want to add album art.
6. Once your MP3 files have been added to the list, Easy File Renamer automatically recognizes MP3 files with missing album art and other metadata (title, artist, album, year, genre, etc) and displays the warning shown in the following screenshot).
   
7. Select the music files that need fixing.
8. Click on the Bulk Tag Editor button.
9. Click the Add button underneath the Album Art image box on the lower-right.
   
10. Select your album art image and then click on the Update button.
11. Repeat the same process for different albums on your computer.
12. Finally, click on Rename to proceed.

Bonus Tip: Batch Rename Music Files with Easy File Renamer

If you’ve got hundreds of music files stored across your hard disk made up of evergreen old music, audiobooks, podcasts, Easy File Renamer (EFR) can really simplify your work. You can batch rename your music files using dozens of file renaming criteria. This means, searching for your favorite music will be much easier and quicker.

EFR offers the following renaming rules:

• New Name: You can completely change the names of your files to new names.
• Remove Text: Want to remove a specific character or a set of characters from your file names? Use the Remove Text renaming rule.
• Replace Text: Replace a character or a set of characters from your file names. With characters of your choice.
• Insert At: Use this renaming rule to add new text at any position inside the file name.
• Trim Text: Want to cut off specific text from the beginning or end of the file names? Simply use the Trim Text rule.
• Prefix: Use this option to add new text at the beginning of your files.
• Suffix: Use this option to add new text at the end of the file names- either before the extension or after extension. (Warning: Changing the file extension might make the file unreadable or unrecognizable).
• Upper case/ Lower case: Use this renaming rule to change upper case letters into lower case, and vice versa.
• Title case: This renaming rule capitalizes the first letter of each word into your file names.
• Swap: Use this renaming rule to change the positions of two words, usually separated by a separator character.