# Search for Artwork

The Search for Artwork menu provides various means of searching for artwork.

All imported artwork honours the auto scaling options in Preferences - Artwork.

The menu may display a submenu called Actions. Any action which is marked as being on the Search menu in the Action Manager will be included in this menu. This is a convenience to quickly locate actions which are designed to extend the capabilities of the Search mechanism. Selecting an action will run the action.

The menu provides access to the auto search functionality via the Auto Search for Artwork menu item.

The User Defined submenu lists all user defined search templates. You can find additional information on search templates in Preferences - Search Templates. Selecting one of these items while the Shift key is down will make the selected template the Default Search item. Selecting one of these items or the Default Search item while the Option key is down, will open the item in the appropriate template editor. Note that both modifier key options require that no other modifier keys are pressed. Further, the Option function is disabled if the menu item has a keyboard shortcut with only the Option modifier.

The remaining menu items pertain to the loading of images from online data sources where the images are either accessed by MusicBrainz or Discogs Release Ids.

The following sources can be designated for the search:

fanart.tv

Requires a Fanart.tv API key.

Cover Art Archive

Discogs

Requires Yate to have been authenticated to access Discogs.

All of the above

Various options apply to all of these retrieval methods. The options are available from the Fanart.tv, Cover Art Archive, Discogs Settings menu item.