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Hi. This is Chris from LyricWiki
and in this video I want to show you how to perfectly upload any albumcover into the project.
At first let me mention that English is not my native language
but I hope you can get what I'm trying to tell you.
At first you want to upload any cover to an album that you already know.
Well, I want to show it for this album.
As you can see from this placeholder
it's still missing its cover, so
let's see how we can add this.
If you want to upload a picture into the project there's several ways:
you can click on "Add a photo" over here in the Wikia Rail,
you can go to special upload,
or you can just click this specific link "Upload cover" on the album page itself.
This is the way I would recommend to you because
this way you can't do much wrong, because
it always fills in a lot of information already for you
so can't mistype and so on and so on.
But let's assume you don't know about this link
and you want to just upload it the usual way.
Then, if you click here, "Add a photo",
this is nothing else but the upload page, the special upload, in a small popup.
So I will use this page because here you've got some rules you have to pay attention to.
But before we can upload a picture, we of course want it on our HDD.
So let's see how we can get the album cover for
this specific album "The Redder, The Better".
A good way to start is looking into Wikipedia, for example, or into Amazon.
I decided to use Amazon and I already picked the album page on Amazon
which was just a usual search. I just typed in the name here into the search field,
clicked on "Go", and I found the page.
Okay, this one is already very good, but it's a little small
so we click on "See larger image", and usually this is just 500 times 500 pixels
which is the maximum size we want at LyricWiki.
So please pay attention to that.
Now we right-click on this and save it to our hard disk.
As you see I tested it before so this is why it appears two times here.
Okay, we don't need that anymore so far.
Okay, we now have this picture on our hard drive disk.
And now we select it from over here. There it is.
As you can see it has got a very cryptic name, this is very specific to Amazon.
The problem is: nobody will know what cover it is from this. So we've got to rename this.
And we always say we want this version: Just type in the artist name
and the name of the cover behind a hyphen, and the hyphen is preceeded
by a blank and behind there goes another blank. Okay.
It'll just check that this filename isn't taken to far,
and as you can see from over here, you need to fill in
some specific information for that album cover.
You can just mark it and pull it down. And then let's just fill it out
with the parameters "The Redder, The Better" and this album is from 2006.
Okay it's very important to pay attention to two things:
These three parameters are written lowercase, all lowercase.
And the second one is: these two parameters have to start
first letter uppercase for each word.
So don't type this
but this.
Okay. There's some additional parameter which you do not have to fill out
but it's very useful if we as admins want to know what source you had,
so you just type "source = Amazon".
Okay, that was that, "none selected", you needn't watch the files you upload,
okay and just click "Upload file" and see what it tells you...
Okay - there it is!
You see it's 500 times 500 pixels large and this is the maximum. So please,
if you just have some bigger version, for example 1,000 times 1,000, resize it
with any, any, really any program you've got to resize images!
I can recommend Paint.NET which is on getpaint.net as URL,
and this is a freeware program and it is very good in resizing images.
Okay, this is the template we filled in,
you can see it from here: this is what we entered
and this is what we get.
Okay, now we uploaded the image, and all we have to do is: purge the page...
and there it is.
Okay, and while we're at it, we're just having the ASIN here.
The Amazon Standard Identification Number.
I mean... you already have got this page opened, so we can just go into editing
and add the asin-parameter here as well.
Next thing you've got to do is to fill in this one.
This is just the name you entered,
do not forget the extension, and...
publish your edit!
And this is how it's done.