Advanced Album Art Question

(At least I think it's advanced, since I can't figure it out - haha).
Anyway, I was wondering if album art can be assigned to an album as a whole, as opposed to just the individual songs. Here's what I'm doing. This past year Weird Al Yankovic released five songs online on their own, and then collectively as something he called "Internet Leaks".
I have the five singles renamed under the "Internet Leaks" group, so they're all together. Each has it's own individual art, which I want to keep. But the collection as a whole has it's own art.
Here's the collection: http://tinyurl.com/internetleaks
Is it possible to assign the blue "Internet Leaks" art to the album as a whole while keeping the individual track artworks?

When a track has multiple artwork the *Now Playing/Selected Item* box grows two triangles at the left & right of the title bar. Click these to view the different art without opening the *Get Info* box. If you use the triangles to select say the second image and move from track to track you will still stay on the second image until you hit a track with only one image.
The "default" album artwork, displayed in Cover Flow, Grid and the Artwork column in the browser is the left-most art (when viewed in the Get Info. Artwork tab) of the "first" track of the album (where in this context first actually means oldest "date added" value). As others have mentioned there is no separate "album" art as distinct from track art, but you can choose what is displayed by tweaking the appropriate track.
There are three different ways to add multiple artwork. You can paste a succession of images onto the Selected Item artwork viewer and they will be added in sequence in addition to any images already embedded. You can add also add more than one image to the white box on the Info. tab when viewing Get info. on multiple items. These will replace all existing images and, if memory serves, get added in the sequence 2,3,...,n,1 when adding n images. Finally you can add them individually via the Get Info. Artwork tab, when editing individual tracks. This also gives the opportunity to rearrange the order and/or remove specific images.
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OK, I just received my second 80 GB Apple ipod Classic. The first one was defective out of the box and this (these?) is (are?) my first ipod. I'd heard all the horror stories about itunes and since I have other media players, ripping and tagging utilities I'm happy with, I really have no intention of using itunes for anything more then updating my ipod and manually synching my music.
I do have one question though. How do I get album art to display for my music? First of all, I unchecked every option in itunes that I could find about updating missing data and downloading album art. I even unchecked the box under My ipod that says "show album art" (maybe mistakenly thinking that was referring to synching album art. All of my mp3's are tagged properly and have the album art, scanned by me from my actual discs embedded in the file in the album art tag. I would think these should display if the ipod is capable of displaying album art, regardless of any checkboxes I've fooled with in itunes but all I get on my ipod are little gray boxes with black musical note symbols in them.
What did I do wrong? Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Sicnerely,
- Byron Followell

bfollowell wrote:
I even unchecked the box under My ipod that says "show album art" (maybe mistakenly thinking that was referring to synching album art.
That's indeed the reason your album art doesn't show on the iPod. Check this box, maybe resync, and the iPod should show the images you embedded in the mp3-files.
Matko
Btw, If you scan and add album art yourself a lot, you might want to have a look at this site :
http://www.albumartexchange.com/

Serious Album Art Question!

here is the situation,
for the songs i have purchased it works perfectly,
however, for other songs that i have that i have applied album art too, even though when i select it in the iTunes the album art is the same for the whole album, for other albums it seems to pick other random album art for about 75% of the songs, this happened twice overall,
in that i have deleted all the songs and reloaded them twice so far and it still doesn't work
please help, feel free to ask any specific questions
Windows XP

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
So the wrong album art is showing up for some songs on your iPod?
Try this...
Connect the iPod to the computer. Go to edit-->preferences. Click the iPod tab. Make sure "Show artwork on iPod" is checked. If it is, uncheck it. Click ok. Now go back and recheck the option. Click ok. Wait for the iPod to update. Is the artwork now there and displaying correctly?
If not, then do the same steps again. However, this time, let the iPod update and then eject it once you uncheck the option. Then disconnect it from the computer. Now reconnect it and enable the option. iTunes should say "optimizng artwork for iPod"
If that doesn't work, you may need to restore...
Restore the iPod
btabz

Unique Album Art Question

I have spent days scouring these message boards to make sure I wasn't asking a repeat question. I am running iTunes 7.3.2 and I'm having a problem with album art making it to my video iPod. My iPod will not display album art for half of my music that HAS ALBUM ART APEARING IN ITUNES. I have copied and pasted, and I have clicked and dragged, but my iPod will not display album art for some of my music. EVEN SONGS I HAVE PURCHASED FROM THE iTMS.
When my iPod is plugged in to my computer, all of the tracks appear to have album art, but when I unplug it and select songs on my iPod, there are some songs, and some entire albums that HAVE ALBUM ART, but my iPod ignores this. Any suggestions?
I wasn't sure if this was an iTunes problem, or an iPod problem.

Have you tried restoring your ipod? That would be an easy, first step, provided you have all of your music and media still in your itunes library.

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My question is what am I missing in the whole process to load the artwork to the whole album on my i Pod without having to do it for each song on that album?
Thanks for the help I just figured there was some simple trick I was missing. I even tried the drag and drop method with no luck and I do have the artwork enabled and have all of the ones I did one at a time showing up.

In the search field in iTunes, type in the name of the album.
All the songs in the album should appear. Click one of them. Now go to edit-->select all.
All the songs in that album should be highlighted.
Right click one, making sure that all stay highlighted. Go to get info. Click yes to the message the appears.
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Those songs should now have that piece of artwork.
btabz

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This is a rather complicated question so I hope someone can help me. I have a 5th gen video ipod and run itunes (latest version 7.5) on Windows XP. I keep all my music on my home computer, syncing it daily with my ipod. I take my ipod to work and attach it to my PC there so I can listen through the speakers. I have to switch my ipod to the Manually Manage Music to be able to play it on that machine. What I want to do is see all the album artwork as I play them on that machine but only the artwork for music I have bought from itunes shows up on the work computer. All the art is on my ipod because if I listen to it detached from the PC all my art shows up on it. And I do have my ipod set to sync the album art.

If you can find the cover art you want online, you can just tell iTunes to forget the artwork for those songs and add the art you want manually.

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I have a 60gb iPod with Video with 8,000 songs imported from WMP. Album Art shows up on some files only at random, and for some songs within the same album. I have iTunes set to show Album Art. How do I fix this?
Thanks

Maybe someone can help me out here. I have absolutely no idea how to show the album art on my nano. Here is what I do.
I use Anapod to drag and drop the entire folder of the album including the artwork but then the artowrk alwasy ends up in the storage folder. I have tried over and over to use iTunes but this program simply drives me crazy. I managed to import 3 songs by accident from my HD and I have no idea how to actually drag music into it. Can someone please tell me how to achieve this. I know I can adda song by selecting add file or something to that matter, but can I drag and drop a complete album in there with the cover images?
Thank you for any help on this matter.

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Okay, I've got music playing on iPhone 4. Phone goes into sleep mode (screen goes off, music still playing) When I "awaken" the phone (music still playing) with some songs the song's album art appears on the 'slide to unlock' screen. But for others my regular wallpaper is displayed. I'd rather have the album art show up all the time when playing. I have tried to find differences between these song files but can not. I have added art to all song files but can not change this behavior. I have tried letting iTunes add the album art, but this does not change the behavior either. ALL songs show their album art when the iPhone is "awake." It's only when "awakening" the iPhone while songs are playing that art displays for some and not for others. Does this make sense to anyone?

Part of that 157.5mb is probably for files that iPod needs to operate. I removed the album art and other was still about 76mb on my iPod.
Also, I noticed that if I added a video, the size of other went up about 1-2mb. So there are probably some support files that get created. Also, Games would be in the Other category, as well as Contacts. Audiobooks are probably in the Audio category.
Even if you never used the iPod as a hard drive, you may want to +Enable disk use+ and open it up in a Windows Explorer window.
Ultimately, you can use the Restore button in iTunes to erase the iPod and then re-sync it.

Complicated album art question

here is what i have: an album made up of songs by different artists - such as an 80's album. I have put the individual album art for each song, rather than one generic album cover.
so, while viewing the albums in Cover Flow, the first track is generally the album art that is displayed for the 80's album. However, is some rare occasions, a random track within the album is displayed for the album art.
any idea why, and an idea how to set the album art to come from the first track?

Part of that 157.5mb is probably for files that iPod needs to operate. I removed the album art and other was still about 76mb on my iPod.
Also, I noticed that if I added a video, the size of other went up about 1-2mb. So there are probably some support files that get created. Also, Games would be in the Other category, as well as Contacts. Audiobooks are probably in the Audio category.
Even if you never used the iPod as a hard drive, you may want to +Enable disk use+ and open it up in a Windows Explorer window.
Ultimately, you can use the Restore button in iTunes to erase the iPod and then re-sync it.

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I've noticed that any albums with the same name will get assigned the same album art...
I have several albums that are "Greatest Hits" from several different artists, all albums get whatever album art was pasted last...
I know I could fix this by change the Album name to "Greatest Hits - <Artist Name>", but I should have to, shouldn't the ZEN know that these are different albums?

I have had the same problem with my new Zen 6gb player.
If you name the albums like this-
Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits2
Greatest Hits3? etc:-
the Zen treats them as different albums and displays artwork correctly.
Same applies to albums called Best Of, Very Best Of,Ultimate Collection etc:-
Hope you get the idea.
It's a pain remembering to edit file tags before loading on the Zen but I haven't found
any other way around this problem to date.

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I like the new look/features of iTunes but the option where it will add album art to your songs, does that only apply to songs in your library or will it update the ones already on your iPod? I am trying to see if there is a way but no luck yet. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Not as far as I know, apple "Thinks" the songs you have on the ipod are on iTUnes so there not really pushing for a feature like that.
You can add them nback to the PC and back them up, or use the backups you have

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Ok I finally added my songs to my new IPOD (replaced my old one) and this is my first Ipod with video, color...etc. Its the IPOD Classic 80 GIG.
Well I am having a few problems/questions:
---Why when I hit "Get album art" does it ONLY get art for my videos? It doesn't get any for all 1,500+ songs! Is it because they aren't downloaded from Itunes? If so then why does it do it for the movies then? They aren't from ITunes either!
---With Cover Flow I updated the Album Art myself and have about 700 songs with art now. But I have two problems.
1. It won't display all 700 songs under Cover Flow!
2. It won't show them in order by song name! Can I change that?!? If not then how is it showing them by? What do I need to change?
---Are there any other video types supported besides that on Mpeg4 and that other weird type? If not why not? Its a pain to have to convert everything. Its almost not worth having this video IPOD if you have to go through sop much effort just to watch 1 stupid video. I mean I spent more money on extra programs now for music and videos then I did on the IPOD almost.
---Is there any way to transfer your music from one IPOD to another? I know some people say you can't but why? What about people like me who have music ripped from our own cds and NOTHING from ITunes? Its a REAL pain having to rerip all the cds, put them back on, rename all the songs, fix all the info...etc. Its taken me 4 days now. Apple needs to think about a "IPOD TO IPOD" music transfer kinda program.
---How do you get pics on the IPOD without having to keep them on your PC? I notice it has to SYNC them every time I have it plugged into the PC! But if I tell it NOT to sync pics anymore then they won't stay on the IPOD if turn that option off and unplug the IPOD. Theres got to be another way to add them.

Assassin X wrote:
---With Cover Flow I updated the Album Art myself and have about 700 songs with art now. But I have two problems.
1. It won't display all 700 songs under Cover Flow!
2. It won't show them in order by song name! Can I change that?!? If not then how is it showing them by? What do I need to change?
Cover flow on the ipod can only be done (as far as I know) on Album by Artist Name. On iTunes you can change it around
Assassin X wrote:
---Are there any other video types supported besides that on Mpeg4 and that other weird type? If not why not? Its a pain to have to convert everything. Its almost not worth having this video IPOD if you have to go through sop much effort just to watch 1 stupid video. I mean I spent more money on extra programs now for music and videos then I did on the IPOD almost.
Try using freeware, heres an excellent video converter for iPods:
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/

Album Art Display question...

Hello,
I am able to sync my songs onto my nano with the album art from ITunes, but when the song plays, the art on the screen is very small. I thought that it would fill the whole screen. Is there a setting or some way to get the album art to fill the entire screen? (I've read through the manual and searched these forums but was not able to find anything on this).
Thank you in advance!
IPod Nano 2nd Gen - Metallic Pink

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Two questions - album art and shuffling

Ok...I have two questions, but didn't really want to make two posts...
The first has to do with album art... All of my album art is in itunes and has been loaded onto my ipod (16gb, 4th gen)...I know it's there because I went song by song and did it and checked it. But my ipod chooses when it feels like displaying it...sometimes it displays it, sometimes I get the music note. If it's not there and I turn it off and on again, it will reappear...it does it on random songs when it feels like it. I tried resetting the ipod and that didn't help and it has resyncing multiple times. It's just hit or miss if the ipod feels like showing it.
My second question has to do with the shuffle feature. I always shuffle my songs, but it seems like it's only shuffling the same songs...mainly those that I first synced. Every now and then it will throw in a new song, but it seems like it's shuffling the same songs constantly....and they don't have more plays than others because I've flipped through them. It's really annoying because it seems like it's always the same songs...
Has anyone run into this also or have any ideas? I figured I'd through this out there before I exchange it out for a new one... both problems are just annoyances that are driving me nuts...especially the shuffle thing...I'm tired of the same songs!! Thanks guys!

1) Have you checked that the album art is actually on each file? Right-click on the song and select, "Get Info" and then the "Illustration" tab. Now, press the "Next" button and make sure that all the songs that you think have got the album artwork actually have them.
People often have problems like this with album artwork, or that two versions of the same album appear on the iPod etc. These problems are related to iTunes and how the music has been setup - and not usually the fault of the iPod.
2) The shuffle feature. I don't know what anyone else has to say about this but I find it REALLY bad on ALL iPod products. This is why: it starts to re-shuffle the music before it has played all of them at least once. I find this rather illogical and haven't experienced this with any other brand but I guess Apple programmed it like that for a reason. I thought they could have at least improved it somewhat on the Shuffle 2G as that is its main selling point. As a result, I get some songs that play 10 times and others that never play at all.
Hope this helps.

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