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Is there some database of album covers that is commonly used? The best I could find is: http://www.albumartexchange.com/

What are some specific topics I should be familiar with in order to query for a specific cover and then download it, especially if I am looking for cross platform functionality?

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See this question

Cover Fetcher, as mentioned in the answers there, uses AudioScrobbler/LastFM. I used it a few months ago and the request was something like

http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?
      method=album.getinfo
     &api_key=XXXXXXXX
     &album=YYYYYY
     &artist=ZZZZZZ

(Response is XML with the links in there somewhere)

I just looked at the source, and they still use the same URL. Here is a Gist with the code I used (Python3) I've X'ed out the API Key, but obeythepenguin's source has it in there.

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