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[Vamps]

So I figured out how to find the location of Scribd cover art that's stored on their system without the annoying little circle with headphones in the bottom corner a while back.  Then COMPLETELY forgot how I did it (in the dev tools).  So I went at it again and found an easier way with a little manipulation of the address.  NOT ONLY does it give you a clean verision minus the watermark, but it gives you a CRISP hi-res version.  Here's how to do it:

First you'll need to find the image address.  Simply open the page for the book that you want the cover art for.  Right click on the cover art and click "copy image link" or some variation of this depending on your browser, or you can also just "open image in new tab".  either will work.  Also worth noting, you do NOT have to be signed in or even have a account.

Click this link to see an example of what you're trying to do:

https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/608963217/original/432x432/92c98107a6/1676352010?v=1





Then, in the address bar, you just replace EVERYTHING after ".../original/" with "umbrella.../1" like this and hit enter

https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/608963217/original/432x432/92c98107a6/1676352010?v=1

https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/608963217/original/umbrella.../1




This will reload the page with a clean image that you drag-n-drop to a folder or right click and 'save as'.  You will get a .webp file you'll then need to convert to a jpg.  There are plenty of free online converters.  I use this one most of the time:

https://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-jpg

All the one's I grabbed today were 1140x1140, not sure if that's standard across ALL covers, but probably is.


NOW the big question for any web-dev's or coder geeks :-)  I spent an hour or so digging into Audible's page source and dev tools looking around with NO luck.  Is it possible to do something like this with those annoying banners on Audible???  I'll almost guaranty that the art is stored clean, then when building the page, they add it and just click an "add banner" button.  


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[Gweilo]

https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/608963217/original/umbrella.../1

This will reload the page with a clean image that you drag-n-drop to a folder or right click and 'save as'.  You will get a .webp file you'll then need to convert to a jpg.  There are plenty of free online converters.  I use this one most of the time:

https://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-jpg

All the one's I grabbed today were 1140x1140, not sure if that's standard across ALL covers, but probably is.

Complete jerks to just block most of the author's name with their stupid logo. Audible often does the same. That does imply that it's completely automated.
I do an image search for the title + narrator and see what comes up, often find it on other publisher or distributor's site in a clean format.

I use Irfanview to resize, crop convert image formats. It also has some filters, and can use Photoshop filters, though if I'm doing anything that requires those I just use Photoshop.

Just because you have a big beautiful image though, please don't put it in the audiofile. I use 500x500 or 600x600, size 40kB or so, max 100kB for the embedded cover image. And for the image linked on our page, the same one will do, don't use huge images, They're displayed at 200px wide so large images are just a waste. You can include the image inside the torrent if you like.
 

[Dallis24F]

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[Khameleon05]

https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/608963217/original/umbrella.../1

This will reload the page with a clean image that you drag-n-drop to a folder or right click and 'save as'.  You will get a .webp file you'll then need to convert to a jpg.  There are plenty of free online converters.  I use this one most of the time:

https://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-jpg

All the one's I grabbed today were 1140x1140, not sure if that's standard across ALL covers, but probably is.

Complete jerks to just block most of the author's name with their stupid logo. Audible often does the same. That does imply that it's completely automated.
I do an image search for the title + narrator and see what comes up, often find it on other publisher or distributor's site in a clean format.

I use Irfanview to resize, crop convert image formats. It also has some filters, and can use Photoshop filters, though if I'm doing anything that requires those I just use Photoshop.

Just because you have a big beautiful image though, please don't put it in the audiofile. I use 500x500 or 600x600, size 40kB or so, max 100kB for the embedded cover image. And for the image linked on our page, the same one will do, don't use huge images, They're displayed at 200px wide so large images are just a waste. You can include the image inside the torrent if you like.
 

It's definitely automated (on Audible's part at least). None of them specifically try to cover the artists name but book layouts can be basically anything and constantly moving your logo around is just incredibly time intesive (would require manual editing) but pretty anti-advertising, you don't want a Where's Waldo for it.

Also omg I agree with the art. I've downloaded albums that were double size for no reason and find out the artwork is 10MB

[Gweilo]

Also omg I agree with the art. I've downloaded albums that were double size for no reason and find out the artwork is 10MB

I've seen 100 file MP3 sets, each with an embedded 2 MB image. Adding up to hundreds of MB of redundant image. Big Finish files especially.
At least with M4B, each book has just one image. even then, I keep them below 100kB. I used to have a Walkman audio player, it worked with M4B and MP3, but just could not display the huge images some use.
Since it's displayed on a tiny screen, again a complete waste.

And use JPEG rather than PNG, much more compact. Irfanview has a convenient preview to help set the exact quality/size when you (re)save a file.