first of all thank you very much for your ongoing support and your attempts to help me in this matter.
I followed the links you sent me in your previous post - very interesting information but does not exactly meet my case.
I am rather familiar with finding album covers in the internet, making screenshots or simply taking pictures from the covers, crop them, save them as jpegs, named as Folder.jpg, and place them into the appropriate music folder at the bottom end of all music titles - this worked fine with dBpoweramp on my MacBook Pro.
BUT: unfortunately NO music folders of all CDs ripped by the A&K 500n show a folder.jpg or cover.jpg, although the cover images are displayed during search or playback!
And so far I found no location or folder on my A&K 500n where images could have been stored - there is a "ripped folder" that shows all ripped CDs as separate folders with the album name, but there are no jpegs inside (I accessed the HD of the A&K 500n by an USB-connection with my MacBook)
The A&K 500n is an almost perfect ripping server that would do everything automatically, but I can't be sure whether it finds cover art or not! (currently I am not ripping those CDs when Gracenote can't find the cover art - waiting for a solution to rip them later!)
As the hardware and the ripping software are SOTA (the A&K 500n sounds absolutely fantastic) I would not like to import complete folders from previous rips with my MacBook and dBpoweramp (the databases used by dBpoweramp (MusicBrainz, AMG, GD3, freeDb etc.) rather often did not find the CDs or title information either, so buying the A&K 500n was also a decision driven by the Gracenote DB.
What I tried successfully was importing a complete folder previously ripped by dBpoweramp incl. the Folder.jpg - the music was played flawlessly by the A&K 500n and the correct cover image was displayed - crazy!
What did NOT work was moving an A&K 500n ripped CD folder without album art to the desktop of my Mac, adding the cover image and moving back the folder to the A&K 500n - absolutely crazy!
Sorry for the length of my reply to your suggestions - but thank you anyway for your efforts in this matter!