



With that in mind, and after much deliberation, we give you our 100 favorites. Even in a time when album art has been reduced from the expansive real estate of a vinyl sleeve to the 150-pixel icon on your Spotify stream, that cover still serves as a signifier-from an enticing vehicle for music discovery to the familiar ID in your saved favorites. This isn’t about the music or the act behind it-at least, that’s what we kept having to tell ourselves during this selection process. Is the image unique? Does it undeniably grab one’s attention? Does it shock and stir, or does it simply please the eye? Does it succeed as a complete graphic, as opposed to simply slapping some text over an image? Was it groundbreaking or relevant at the time, and has it wedged itself into our cultural memory to this day? Click it and the menu that opens will have an Edit Info button.What makes an album cover great-or important? Obviously, a pleasing visual aesthetic is paramount, but of course, that’s subjective. If you don’t see the Edit Info button, you will see a more options button. Open the Groove app and go to albums tab. The reason Groove is mentioned as a second choice is that adding album art with it takes more effort than a simple drag and drop. In the event that you don’t have Windows Media Player on your system, or it is eventually deprecated, you can use Groove. Windows Media Player is, thankfully, still included in Windows 10 which is the only reason this trick works to begin with. If it doesn’t though, you need to apply this same fix. The cover art should update in File Explorer once it shows up. You can later change the cover art if you want and you don’t necessarily need to use Windows Media Player to do so. Once the cover is updated, visit the file in File Explorer and you will the standard file icon has been replaced with the cover art image. You must not use any other method to add the cover art. Next, drag & drop the cover image onto the song or the album. Once you have the image, open Windows Media Player and go to your library. If you have files that all belong to the same album, you can save some time.įirst, download the image that you want to use for the file’s cover.

To fix the problem for a file, you will need to apply the fix for each file individually. The art is there and you will see it show up in other apps as well like Groove. This isn’t a problem with the app that you’re using and more a problem with File Explorer. Album art in File Explorer may not appear regardless of which app you’ve used to add it.
