diff --git a/data/app.gresource.xml b/data/app.gresource.xml
index e6a3989..5803443 100644
--- a/data/app.gresource.xml
+++ b/data/app.gresource.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 
     <file alias="style.css">style.css</file>
     <file alias="style-dark.css">style-dark.css</file>
+
+    <file alias="cover.png">assets/cover.png</file>
   </gresource>
   <gresource prefix="/com/fyralabs/Victrola/icons">
     <file alias="scalable/actions/show-lyrics-symbolic.svg">icons/hicolor/symbolic/actions/show-lyrics-symbolic.svg</file>
diff --git a/data/assets/cover.png b/data/assets/cover.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..99bda7c
Binary files /dev/null and b/data/assets/cover.png differ
diff --git a/src/window.vala b/src/window.vala
index 071693d..9c7bbd4 100644
--- a/src/window.vala
+++ b/src/window.vala
@@ -384,7 +384,16 @@ namespace Victrola {
                         buffer?.unmap ((!) info);
                     }
                 } catch (Error e) {
-                    // w/e lol lmao even
+                    var pixbuf = new Gdk.Pixbuf.from_resource ("/com/fyralabs/Victrola/cover.png");
+                    var width = pixbuf.width; var height = pixbuf.height;
+                    if (size > 0 && width > size && height > size) {
+                        var scale = width > height ? (size / (double) height) : (size / (double) width);
+                        var dx = (int) (width * scale + 0.5); var dy = (int) (height * scale + 0.5);
+                        var newbuf = pixbuf.scale_simple (dx, dy, Gdk.InterpType.TILES);
+                        if (newbuf != null)
+                            return ((!) newbuf);
+                        buffer?.unmap ((!) info);
+                    }
                 }
             }
             return null;
@@ -401,7 +410,15 @@ namespace Victrola {
                         return ((!) newbuf);
                 }
             } catch (Error e) {
-                // w/e lol lmao even
+                var pixbuf = new Gdk.Pixbuf.from_resource ("/com/fyralabs/Victrola/cover.png");
+                var width = pixbuf.width; var height = pixbuf.height;
+                if (size > 0 && width > size && height > size) {
+                    var scale = width > height ? (size / (double) height) : (size / (double) width);
+                    var dx = (int) (width * scale + 0.5); var dy = (int) (height * scale + 0.5);
+                    var newbuf = pixbuf.scale_simple (dx, dy, Gdk.InterpType.TILES);
+                    if (newbuf != null)
+                        return ((!) newbuf);
+                }
             }
             return null;
         }