Album Art Websites

I have seen on various posts, different websitesor programs where people get their album art from. Maybe we can consolidate it all here. Please post any website or program you use to get album art for your ipod. Please specify if the program is for Mac or Windows. I am looking for a windows compatible program or website.
Thanks

I just get all my album art from towerrecords.com.
All you have to do is right-click on one of the cd images on the site and hit copy. Then highlight all the songs you want with that album art on itunes. Right click, and then paste the art into the album art box.

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get the order number from itunes account "Purchase History" & then send a mail to itunes store from following website. www.apple.com/support/itunes/ They will provide you exception to redownload because its Apple's problem

Pulling album art from PC to itunes

is there a manual way (or even better automatic) of pulling the album artwork from my PC music library files to itunes? after having converted my entire PC music library, I am lacking most album art covers...i do have an itunes account but it did not update many covers either...help appreciated.

Yes, there's a manual way. Select the whole album in your iTunes library. Make sure the artwork box is visible (Ctrl-G) in the lower left corner. Drag a JPEG from somewhere else on your PC or from a website over to the artwork box. ITunes will apply that artwork to every file selected. To save file space, I think if you apply it only to the first track it will still show up for all tracks of the album. This way every file won't have the JPEG embedded; only the first file will.
I've read in Discussions about third-party utilities that automates this process, but I don't remember any names, and it is bound to make the same kind of mismatching mistakes that iTunes' built-in feature makes.

How to access links in album art in iTunes 11?

In particular podcasts often have links in their album art. Clicking on it while the album art was shown in the lower left corner of iTunes 7(?) through 10 send you to a website with more info about the podcast or the particular song playing (what was linked to was up to the podcast producer).
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This is actually not accurate. You do not have to switch to the Artists tab to view artwork. When in the Playlist tab, there is a "View" pull down in the upper right corner of the screen. Click on it and select "Artist List" to change the view (similar to the format of the Artists tab mind you) to view the track artwork.
Take note that the "artist list" on the left side is like a side anchored column browser but the artwork shown here is not for the current album in the playlist, just the first cover iTunes finds under each particular artist (like in the Artist tab). (And another goofy design decision IMHO, why show artwork here at all?). The actually album/track artwork is on the playlist side. You also can't enable the full column browser in this view as it's tied to the default "List" view.
I don't necessarily prefer this new approch but wanted to clarify for others.
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Zen Vision : M - Album Art not displaying and other probl

Hi,
I bought a Zen Vision : M from Hong Kong last week and of course the first thing I did when I got home was install all the software that came with it and started uploading songs.
The player is great and I love it but there are just two annoying little things.
Two problems I encountered.
. I uploaded the album art using the Media Explorer by clicking and draging the JPEG into the explorer as instructed, sometimes the album art shows on the player and for some albums, it just won't show on the player, however it shows correctly on the explorer. Has anybody else experienced the same thing?
Is there going to be a new firmware to fix that?
2. Sometimes after closing all the Creative applications and explorers, it still does not release the player. It still saids that it is docked. I have to either shut down the computer or manually pull the USB cable out which is something I don't want to do if it is still transferring information between the player and the PC... In the next firmware, there should be an option to undock the player.
Also the website claims to have all these accesories such as the docking station and leather case for the player but I cannot find any online store that has it!?! I have searched the Europe online stores and Asia online shops yet I cannot find it. Where would I be able to find it's As I am always afraid that the connector that comes with the player will break as it feels quite fragile.

The undocking issue are you sure the arrows are still moving. I made that mistake when I first got the vision M. I thought it was still updating.
The arrows stay still when you can remove the Vision M and kinda rotate, actually move when you are tranferring songs.
Looks similar.
As for the album art ill try that today and get back to you.

Album art not showing... help wanted...

just got nano recently i was having trouble makeing the album art show. can anyone give me tips or advice to make it work?

get an album art from any music website. (ex: http://music.msn.com)
copy the picture and paste it on the music.
how to:
1. in itunes, right-click on the song and click "get info"
2. on open window, click the tab "artwork"
3. right-click on the blank rectangular space and click "paste"
if you like to do it on multiple songs (like the whole album), select all the songs and right-click on them and do the same procedure.
then update your ipod
ipod nano Windows XP Pro

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having the same problem... and yes, no contact info for the developer's website... it WAS an awesome widget for those files for which itunes didn't have the art work (which in my case was A LOT).
anyone know of another widget that does the same thing??

What database does album art come from?

I'm just wondering if we're capable of updating it, or where the information comes from. I'd also like to know about iTunes capitalization and punctuation standards, if there's a link to that, a la Wikipedia, and genre listing. Who controls that information?
Thanks
M.

After a bit more research this afternoon, I did discover the Gracenote website where they have some interesting information. It's interesting to me that iTunes draws its album names and genre from Gracenote, but its art from the iTunes store (at least as far as I've been able to figure out).
I did have some luck, if other people have album art problems, shutting all of my programs down and restarting, and then relogging into iTunes and making it sure it had correct cc or Paypal information. I was getting an error -409. Now, I'm down to sixty missing album covers.
My "Live at the Fillmore" album, for instance, I used as an experiment. I right-clicked Get Track Names, and it changed the name of the album to "Live @ The Fillmore" rather than my preferred spelling, which evidently comes from CDDB database? Is that the same as Gracenote? Then I right-clicked the album again and selected Get Artwork. Now it was unable to find the artwork.
When I checked in the iTunes store, I noticed that the album was listed "Live At the Fillmore." So I changed the name back to "Live at the Fillmore" and it found the art, even though my capitalization was different. So I'd say that the text has to be exactly the same, but capitalization can differ.
It still seems like the two databases are drawing from two different places.
I did figure out how to right-click and find art for individual albums, so that's extremely helpful and a big time saver.

Wave Files and Album Art

Can you add album art to .wav files?

Can you add album art to .wav files?
From the point of view of iTunes the answer is no, you cannot add Album Art to WAV files.
In terms of adding meta tags to WAV files, one or two programs use RIFF chunks to store meta tags in WAV files, this is actually how Apple do it for AIFF files. However iTunes does not support this for WAV files, and Windows Media Player does not support reading the tags in AIFF files.
If you are looking for a lossless music format that can be shared between iTunes and Windows Media Player then I have been there, got the T-Shirt, etc.
A long time ago in a Galaxy far, far away... before I ripped all my CDs to iTunes, I considered what format to use that would be lossless and shareable amongst everything I was interested in.
That is, what is the one true lossless format (to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them...).
Initially I thought WAV, as it could be played by iTunes, iPod, and of course Windows Media Player, but I instantly discovered iTunes could not add artwork to WAV files. I then checked and confirmed Windows Media Player can as standard play AIFF files. However while it can play them, because it cannot read the meta tags in AIFF files, it will not let you add them to the Window Media Player library. At that time, I did not seriously think it would be possible to use Apple Lossless files in Windows Media Player, but I checked and I was right, it was not possible and it was believed at that time that it would never be possible since Apple Lossless is a proprietary format.
I did initially settle on using AAC instead (a lossey format) which can be played and used (with additional software) with Windows Media Player.
However I never give up and continued on my quest for the holy grail of one lossless format to rule them all.
FLAC and OGG can sort of be used in iTunes for Mac, but not on iPod, so they were ruled out. WMA lossless was instantly ruled out because while it might be possible to import in to iTunes (for Windows), it cannot be used in iTunes (meaning you would have two copies of each track), and it also cannot be used on the iPod.
I then used some lateral thinking, while there is no Apple Lossless solution for Windows Media Player, is there a solution that runs on Windows and maybe could be adapted to use with Windows Media Player? I found solutions for use with Foobar 2000, WinAmp, and dbPowerAmp, but none of these would work with Windows Media Player. I then found mention of the BASS software library (for programmers to use to write music programs) which is available for both Mac and Windows. See http://www.un4seen.com/ I also found that a module had been written for use with BASS to play Apple Lossless. However BASS by itself still would not work as a directshow filter for use with Windows Media Player. I then found mention of someone taking BASS, and an MP3 module, and packaging it as a directshow filter for use with WMP. Ah, hah! I thought, all we need is to do the same thing but with the Apple Lossless module. I was able to get in-touch with the programmer who had done that and persuade him to do the same thing with the Apple Lossless module which was written by MaresWEB and now available as open-source code here http://www.maresweb.de/projects/bass/alac.php
Jackpot, I can now play Apple Lossless in iTunes, iPod, Roku Soundbridge, Sonos ZonePlayer, SlimDevices Squeezebox, Apple TV, iPhone, Windows Media Player, Microsoft Media Center 2005, etc. etc. etc.
The one true lossless format is therefore the one you would least expect, it is Apple Lossless!
The Apple Lossless directshow filter which Milenko Mitrovic packaged together is available from his website http://www.dsp-worx.de see the January 8th 2007 entry.
You will also need a plugin for Windows Media Player to let it read MPEG4 meta tags, this plugin would also be used for AAC files as they use the same MPEG4 file format and tags. There are two available (both free) either this one http://wmptagext.sourceforge.net/ or this one http://www.softpointer.com/WMPTagSupport.htm
iTunes can of course add album artwork to Apple Lossless tracks (including as embedded art), it is possible (with various steps) to add Apple Lossless tracks to Windows Media Player, and have it play them and manage them in its library, and it is possible to use folder.jpg files with Windows Media Player for its copies of the artwork.

ITunes 6 - Album Art

The album art does not load into iTunes when I import a CD. Is there a setting I need to change? I can manually add album art but as you can imagine, that it a bit tedious.

Jones Family,
A store bought CD does not contain album art. For that matter it doesn't contain track information either, but iTunes does a good job of gathering that information for you from CDDB.
http://www.gracenote.com/
You're on your own though with album art. You have to get that for yourself, manually.
There are some third party apps that can help with this.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19354
http://www.amphonicdesigns.com/albumcoverfinder/index.html
I choose to do it myself. Here's a website that I use a lot:
http://www.slothradio.com/covers/
Matt
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make sure you have the most current version of Media Explorer. (from the website)vision m is actually listed under mp3 players for future ref. i got all my album art from amazon.com.i just used the overall default of 500x500 pixels as the "standard" size to use in transfer.... mainly b/c thats what most album covers where from the site. pics that were smaller then that, i searched google image for the album cover. i used picture it 7.0 to resize image to 500x500 give or take a few pix off either way, keeping resize in proportion to each other. then save the image. *amazing site as well to get album art. again you will need to pic a size for album cover art.http://www.zero.co.nz/music/[color="#000099">?so with the most updated version of media explorer, just bring up the album view and pull over album art on top of blank album cover. it was very time consuming ( have not found way to cut down on time... the more you ahve the longer it takes to load up, ect.. ), that and i had ALOT of albums on there. but i am very very happy with the end result. like i said 500x500 looks great. just just me.

Coverflow, album art, & videos

When in coverflow, the album art doesn't appear for a specific album instead it shows a video preview.
Example :
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4619/16016687.jpg

Robby L wrote:
When in coverflow, the album art doesn't appear for a specific album instead it shows a video preview.
Example :
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4619/16016687.jpg
Not sure if this will be useful to you. But when I add tracks off of CD and I want to add the artwork, I do the following.
When Itunes has loaded up and once you have made sure the main view is showing Cover Flow:
In the MUSIC LIBRARY (left handside of the Itunes window). Left click once the first song for the particular album in question, next right click it, choose from the menu GET INFO, on the window that has appeared click the ARTWORK tab, next click the ADD tab and locate the picture you have saved on the PC for that particular album (you need to have downloaded this already from a covers website or scanned it and saved it).
Once you have added it and it appears in the window that I have mentioned above, you will then need to right click on the picture and choose copy.
Next you will need to left click (ONCE) the second track of the album in question, and then hold the SHIFT key and left click (ONCE) the last track of that album. You should now have the second track and all the other tracks for that album highlighted. Next we need to right click again on the highlighted selection and choose GET INFO. On the window that appears you need to make sure that you are on the INFO tab, you will see a square with the word ARTWORK above it, you need to now right click in the square and choose paste, you should see the picture appear in the square for that album, also ensure that the little box to the left of the ARTWORK box becomes ticked once you have pasted the picture, if it doesn't you will need to tick this box.
After you have done all of the above and have connected the iPhone and synced to apply the changes you have made, you need to then check (on the iPhone) to see if the cover appears correctly for all the tracks for that particular album for which you have made the changes to.

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About a week after I got this version, all my music got deleted somehow. I've added it all back, but album art is screwy. Sometimes it only shows a black square where the art should be. Other times it won't change the art to what I want it to be. These things happen regardless of whether I change many songs at once or one at a time. Is there a patch or something? I don't want to restore the iPod again...it takes way too long to rename all my songs and put them in specific playlists!!

Hi blob2,
Although it may not be the solution to your problem, there's been a new version of iTunes that was released a few days ago, which may provide some sort of help with this issue for you.
The latest version is 7.3.2.6, and can be downloaded from Apple's website, here:
Download iTunes - 7.3.2.6
By the way, does this happen when you're trying to view the album art on your iPod, or does this just happen with your iTunes library?
-Kylene

ITunes 10.0.7.21 shows a white box instead of artwork for most of my albums. Many of these are albums I purchased on itunes. Also when I hit get album art it deleted the artwork it already had form many albums and says it cant find it.

OS is Windows 7
I updated iTunes the other day and I decided to run "get album art" and instead of finding artwork, it made some of the artwork I already had show up as white squares, or disapear entirely. The ones that are white squares show up under the get info, but not in itunes. I did click in view for show al artwork, no luck. Many of these albums I bought from iTunes. The ones that the artwork was deleted some albums I can buy on iTunes, but already owned, and iTunes found the artwork before, but now cannot. Some are albums that I spent many hours finding and adding the artwork myself. I am very frustrated. I cannot find the time to manually install artwork for thousands of songs.
My work computer is Windows 8, so I really don't want to hear windows vs OSX argument. My company won't switch to mac because you like it better, so I just need a solution to my issue. iTunes it has always worked better for me on my work PC than my macBook, I dont know why, but I don't take two laptops with me when I travel so I have my iTunes library on the PC that has to come with me. This is the first time an update has screwed things up for me.

Well my first guess was wrong. The line that failed is the one that writes out the image to disk. I've not revisited the code for that script for ages, but it seems I did add in an extra test for missing files a little while later, then forgot to upload the change. I can reproduce the error message if I deliberately rename a file to confuse iTunes so that seems the most likely reason for your problem with the script. I've uploaded a new build of CreateFolderArt which should work better.
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I know what SPSS stands for but that is all I know about it.
tt2

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