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How Now Playing Finds Artwork

How Now Playing locates album art: embedded tags, local files, Rekordbox library, online sources, and the fallback chain when nothing matches.


Now Playing 2 has many ways it tries to find album artwork. It varies between each DJ software. This post will help you understand the priority order.

  • 1) Artwork from Rekordbox's database that is on that computer.
  • 2) Artwork from Beatport / Beatport Link
  • 3) Artwork from Discogs
  • 4) Your default artwork
  • 5) The Now Playing logo
  • 1) Artwork embedded the media MP3/WAV/AIFF file
  • 2) Artwork from Beatport / Beatport Link
  • 3) Artwork from Discogs
  • 4) Your default artwork
  • 5) The Now Playing logo
  • 1) Artwork embedded the media MP3/WAV/AIFF file
  • 2) Artwork from Beatport / Beatport Link
  • 3) Artwork from Discogs
  • 4) Your default artwork
  • 5) The Now Playing logo
  • 1) Artwork embedded the media MP3/WAV/AIFF file
  • 2) Artwork from Beatport / Beatport Link
  • 3) Artwork from Discogs
  • 4) Your default artwork
  • 5) The Now Playing logo
  • 1) Artwork embedded the media MP3/WAV/AIFF file
  • 2) Artwork from Beatport / Beatport Link
  • 3) Artwork from Discogs
  • 4) Your default artwork
  • 5) The Now Playing logo
  • 1) Artwork from Rekordbox's database on the computer Now Playing 2 is running on.
  • 2) Artwork from Beatport / Beatport Link
  • 3) Artwork from Discogs
  • 4) Your default artwork
  • 5) The Now Playing logo

Currently ProDJ-Link does not pull album art directly from the media file.

It is technically possible to transfer artwork from the USB/SD card or from Rekordbox Link Export but during testing the file transfer was very slow (30+ seconds for an MP3, even longer for a WAV / AIFF).

So for now Now Playing 2 doesn't support read artwork directly from the USB stick in your CDJ. Instead if the Rekordbox database is on the same computer as Now Playing it will try to use that.

  • 1) Artwork embedded the media MP3/WAV/AIFF file downloaded from the device
  • 2) Artwork from Beatport / Beatport Link
  • 3) Artwork from Discogs
  • 4) Your default artwork
  • 5) The Now Playing logo
  • 1) Artwork from Beatport / Beatport Link
  • 2) Artwork from Discogs
  • 3) Your default artwork
  • 4) The Now Playing logo

Currently DJused does not pull album art directly from the media file.

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