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Your digital music doesn't stay in one place, and it should look the same no matter where it's playing. But somehow, in all the transfers from system to system, onto and off of MP3 players, and to and from the net, the album art illustrations that should add visual cues and familiarity seem to always get lost.

If you're looking to match up all your music with their album covers, read on for a quick guide to the best tools and sources for finding and locking down album art, no matter what computer you're using.

Make your album art stick:

Most modern media players can grab matching album artwork from the major sources: Amazon, iTunes, or paid commercial databases - but don't do such a hot job of embedding the MP3 files themselves with the pictures, so that they always show up, whether they're in an iPod, in a different operating system, or even on your cell phone.

This guide will show you, in one editor's humble opinion, the best places to download album art, and the best tools for placing it into your files for all three major systems (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux).

Let's get grabbing:

Full Lifehacker article here: Album Art: Find and Embed Album Art in Your MP3 Collection