Helium allows you to easily download and manage pictures for your albums, artists, and labels.


Downloading a Specific Album Picture

In any view that shows album thumbnails, you can quickly download a picture for a specific album by hovering over the album and clicking the Download button on the overlay (the third icon from the left). The same function is available from the album's context menu under Pictures > Download....


After that, the Download Picture dialog will appear and start searching for an album cover using the given input data and all available download plug-ins and enabled scripts.


If no results are found, you can change the search arguments and re-run the search by clicking the Search button.


To apply a found picture, simply double-click on it.


Applying Pictures via Drag and Drop

You can quickly change a picture by dragging a picture file to an artist thumbnail or by dragging an image from a web browser to the artist thumbnail.


Loading Pictures Manually

To load a file from disk, click the first icon in the overlay or select Pictures > Change Picture... from the context menu.


Artist Pictures

The same functions available for album pictures are also available for artist pictures.


Downloading Multiple Pictures

In any view that supports artist or album thumbnails, you can download multiple pictures at once.


To perform this operation, click Tools > Pictures > Album Picture Manager... or Tools > Pictures > Artist Picture Manager....


Click here to read more about the Album Picture Manager


Click here to read more about the Artist Picture Manager






Helium allows you to easily download and manage pictures for your albums, artists and labels.


Downloading a specific album picture

For any view that shows album thumbnails you can quickly download a picture for a specific album by hovering the album and  click the download button on ther overlay, the 3rd from left. The same function is available from the albums context menu under Pictures > Download...


After that the Download picture dialog will be shown and start to search for an album cover with the given input data from the album using all available download plug-ins and enabled scripts.

If no results were found, you can change the search arguments and re-execute the search by clicking the Search button.

To apply a found picture, simply double-click on it


Applying pictures via drag and drop

You can quickly change a picture by dragging either a picture file to an artist thumbnail or by dragging an image from a web-browser to the artist thumbnail.


Loading pictures manually

To load a file from disk, click the 1st icon in the overlay or select Pictures > Change Picture... from the context menu.


Artist pictures

The exact same function for album pictures are also available for artists.


Downloading multiple pictures

From any view that supports artist or album thumbnails you can also download multiple pictures at a time.

To perform this operation simply click Tools > Pictures > Album Picture Manager... or Tools > Pictures > Artist Picture Manager...


Click here to read more about the Album Picture Manager

Click here to read more about the Artist Picture Manager