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I dont understand the UI at all. When I click All or something withij brackets, what am I supposed to see? Covers similar to what I clicked? But the covers I see don't seem similar to me at all no matter what I click. What am I missing? Or may be I am expecting a different kind of similarity.

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The confusion is understandable as the comparison is basic and uses image hashes (https://pypi.org/project/ImageHash/), which are pretty surface level and don't always provide reliable "this image is obviously very similar to that one" results.

You are correct that when you click something in the brackets, the results returned are covers similar to what you clicked.

Still have a lot of room for improvement as I go further down this image matching rabbit hole, but the comparison's current state does provide some useful results every so often.

As suggested in another comment, CLIP should give the images that actually look similar. This is a great collection of images, and using those you will find very similar covers.

http://same.energy/search?i=yN5ou

Also https://mood.zip/

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