# Using Beets to grab \*song\* artwork

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/using-beets-to-grab-song-artwork/238>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [December 11, 2017, 11:51pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/using-beets-to-grab-song-artwork/238 "2017-12-11T23:51:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![callum](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/callum/32/95_2.png) [@callum](https://discourse.beets.io/u/callum)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 11:51pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/using-beets-to-grab-song-artwork/238/1 "2017-12-11T23:51:13Z")

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Revisiting Beets after a couple of years…

I experimented a bit trying to get the artwork for my music collection and eventually realized I could only get images for whole albums vs individual songs (at least, that’s how it was explained to me).

Is that still the case? - I have about 1000 individual songs that I’ve lovingly clean up and each one is “perfect” except for the fact there is no artwork.

Can Beets help me with this?

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**Author:** ![adrian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/adrian/32/4_2.png) [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/using-beets-to-grab-song-artwork/238/2 "2017-12-16T15:48:08Z")

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Indeed; we still don’t have a good setup for this. Sorry! Here’s the relevant thread for that feature:

> <https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/132>