I have been on this massive album cover project for my music collection and its proved to be a mission. Finding the (best) album art and including it the mp3s does take a bit of time. Here are some of the tools that I use to get the best quality jpgs in the mp3 tags.
First, you need to get a program to incorporate the jpg files into the mp3 tags. I use Tag & Rename. If you have a Mac, the mix of itunes and Coverscout work.
It seems the status quo of acceptable album art size is 600X600. If you have your songs tagged properly, retrieving the cover art from itunes should be fairly painless. However, only by using Coverscout are you able to transfer the album art from the itunes library into the mp3 tag. This is important because if your itunes library is wiped, i would assume that all your album art is also, because its not your mp3 tag.
What does this mean for pc users like me? We are fucked...(unless someone knows of something)
Alas, here are the sites where I usually find 600X600+ size cover art for my mp3s, and then incorporate the file into the mp3 tag using Tag & Rename:
Discogs (Best!!!)
Juno Records (Recent Releases)
Juno Downloads (Recent Releases)
Amazon
Good Groove (for amazing quality disco covers)
Droids - Star Peace 1978
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