It looks like Apple has pulled the plug on the many websites that plunder its extensive archive of high resolution album artwork. The popular Josh's iTunes Album Art Grabber, and many others, ran into difficulty when attempting to retrieve the gorgeously detail 600px by 600px covers, offering only the 170px by 170px versions. The larger versions are still available to those who purchase music from the iTunes store but it looks like we’ll all have to turn to the lower quality Amzon.com for our audio library needs.

24 May 2006