Album Artwork message question

I'm in the process of uploading many CDs to iTunes and I selected the "Do not show this message again" button on the Artwork for "Artist - Album" could not be found. I cannot see where to re-enable this. Is this possible?
Thanks in Advance

A number of these messages that can be turned off cannot be turned on again except by deleting your preference files, I assume this is one of them.
Deleting the preference files takes ALL your preferences back to their default values, so watch out if you have set any special preferences.
You don't say which operating system you are using, but assuming it is windows, the following articles about something else contain instructions for removing the preference files:
XP version
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1421
Vista version
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305491
Look under the heading *Remove iTunes Preference files*

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I have upgraded to version 7. Now everytime I start iTunes I get a 'iTunes Setup Assistant' box pop-up talking about downloading album artwork. I then have to click cancel or OK before iTunes loads. This is very, very irritating. How do I stop this???

I think that the iTunes database in your Windows user profile might be corrupted. I managed to solve the problem by creating a new database and reimporting my songs into the library. The album art downloaded automatically after that.
1) Check the Automatically download missing album artwork is selected on the General tab in iTunes preferences
2) Close iTunes
3) Rename the iTunes folder (usually found in +My Music+)
4) Reopen iTunes (this creates a new iTunes folder in +My Music+)
5) Copy and paste the contents of your music folders (+iTunes Music+ folder) into the newly created +iTunes Music+ folder
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Album Artwork Folder Question

Hello.
I have iTunes set to have all of my music files on an external harddrive. I also use Backup to backup my iTunes settings to my Dot Mac account. I've noticed that I am routinely running out of space on my backup folder and decided to see what was going on. I discovered the "Album Artwork" folder on my local harddrive and realized that it was over 300 MB in size and that this was the problem.
I have searched through the forum and saw that people recommended using Doug's "Embed Artwork" AppleScript. Before I install the script I just wanted to find out if after running it the files in the "Album Artwork" folder will be deleted or if I will have to delete them manually after running the script.
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You can use the script from Doug, but if you're tight on space, that won't help in your situation.
Instead of only one picture for an entire album, a picture will be embedded in every track of that album.
Every track with embedded artwork will increase in size, consuming a lot more space in total than a picture stored in the 'Album Artwork' folder.
Once the picture is embedded in all associated files, iTunes should remove the one in the 'Download' folder, but in my experience doesn't always do that.
You might also take a look inside the 'Album Artwork' folder.
The 'Download' folder contains the artwork downloaded from the 'iTunes Store'.
The 'Local' folder contains the pictures which are used for the 'Cover Flow' feature. These are duplicates of other pictures and stored there for quick access. This folder can be much larger in size than the 'Download' folder. and does not need a backup in my opinion.
If you delete the 'Download' folder, iTunes will create a new one on the next run and store pictures in it again when using 'Cover Flow'.
If you try this, you will notice that it behaves rather sluggish the first time (when you have a lot of embedded artwork), because it has to get all pictures from the music files. iTunes then stores a copy in the 'Local' folder for quick access.
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Hey everyone, I have what I hope is a pretty simple question. Right now, on my iMac, I have 2 user accounts, one for me and one for my wife. I wanted us to be able to share all of our music, so when I was setting up the computer, I put the iTunes Music Library in a /User/Shared/Music directory. Then, inside iTunes, for both users, I pointed to this new library. Everything here works great. When I add a song under 1 user, I just have to go to Add to Library under the other user and the songs are added. Works fine.
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The artwork is stored in Music/iTunes/Artwork.
iTunes handles everything in that folder when iTunes adds it to the database.
This info is maintained in the iTunes library file in the iTunes folder.
iTunes will not do anything by copying or pointing to the artwork folder in your folder.
Unless you are both using the same iTunes library file, you will need to get your own artwork.
I put the iTunes Music Library
Do you mean the iTunes music folder?
Here's a way to do what you want.
Move your *iTunes folder* to the shared directory.
Open iTunes holding Option and select *Choose existing library*.
Select the iTunes library file in the Shared directory.
Everything should work fine.
Quit iTunes.
Move the *iTunes music folder* from /User/Shared/Music directory into the *iTunes folder* you moved into the Shared directory.
Start iTunes. Everything should work.
Quit iTunes.
Log into your wife's account.
Start iTunes holding the Option key, select *Choose existing library* and select the *iTunes library file* in the iTunes folder you moved into the Shared directory.
Everything should be there including all artwork.
Each user needs to quit iTunes before the other user can open it.
Shouldn't be a problem since you are using the same computer.

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i was able to browse album covers flow on itunes when it was first released. I recntly tried to do it and got the 'unable to browse album artwork on this computer' mesage.
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Hi there everyone. I'm trying to add a few more songs to my 80GB iPod classic. I've taken the time to go through my 200+ albums and either use the "Add album artwork" option or search through Amazon.com for album photos, in the end, all of my songs has an image associated with it. Today I tried adding some mp3s from an album that was originally made of ogg files. After converting the files and adding the songs to iTunes, I noticed that 2 of the songs didn't have album art. I've tried everything, including the suggestion of *rebuilding the artwork cache* at least 3 times, to no avail. Is there anything else I can do? Or do I just have to wait till the next upgrade to iTunes is released and hope things work themselves out?
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I used the "Get Album Artwork" command for many of my albums (mostly ripped in MusicMatch and then imported into iTunes). This often works, adding the artwork to all the tracks with that one search.
When that fails to find the artwork, I try to find the artwork myself (Amazon, or other sites). But, it seems that I need to manually add the art to each track individually. Is there a more efficient way to do the manual add? About how much storage is required for the artwork for each track?
Sometimes, when I look at the Get Info summary screen, instead of the album art or blank box that says "No Artwork Available" there is a dot. Are these corrupt entries? Any way to fix this?
Lastly, after adding album artwork to iTunes, how do I get it over to the iPod. I don't auto-sync because I have far more music than space allows on the 8GB Nano. Would I need to delete the albums from the iPod and then re-transfer the albums from iTunes?

+Highlight all the songs in the album. Right-click, Get Info. Say yes at the prompt, and then the artwork that you add will apply to all of them.+
I get the prompt to browse to where the artwork is stored only when I right-click on a single track. I don't get that option when multiple tracks are selected.
+Before you paste it in, right-click the image and look at Properties. 10kB, 30kB, 70kB would be pretty typical values for those kind of JPEGs. They are small compared to the music file.+
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I know how to tell how large the image file is. what I'm asking is if I manually associate the artwork with 10 tracks, does the file take up 10x the amount of space or is it stored only once, with 10 pointers to that single art file.

"itunes has stopped working" after downloading album artwork??

For years I've avoided ipod and itunes like the plague...but about 2 weeks ago I gave in. I got an ipod touch and installed itunes. Everything was fine - until this afternoon when I clicked on find album artwork in itunes. After itunes finished going through the process of finding the artwork ( 1400 of 1600 files found, 1450 of 1600 found, etc...or something like that ), i got the error message that *itunes has stopped working*. I've been searching forums all night and tried uninstalling eveything "apple" and reinstalling. Apparently this error comes up for A LOT of people ( problems like this are why I never wanted an ipod... ). None of the recommended fixes are working. I'm assuming something went wrong during artwork downloading????? Or not? I don't really care why actually, but, if itunes crashes every time i hook up my ipod, what good is it ( or the ipod )...and i don't know what to do with the ipod ( how to download apps, or add music, photos and videos ) w/o the itunes. My previous media players were all drag and drop ease.
I'm a newbie - and i'm rally frustrated - so please be kind. Can anyone tell me - in plain terms - how to get my itunes to not "stop working" every time i hook up my ipod?? Please?
THANKS.

OK, so after looking everywhere for an answer - with no luck - I figured it out on my own ( don't ask me how... ). I'll tell you what I did. I bet you have the same problem. Honestly, I thought I'd be returning the **** thing, but it's fine now.
I'd plug in my ipod ( 32gtouch, like yours ), and itunes would open. Everything was fine until it started to sync my music. Then it would freeze, give me the error message, and then shut down. I did this probably 10 times throughout the day, and always the same. Then I noticed it always froze at the same place during the sync. Soooo, I finally realized I must have a corrupt file.
Step 1: Do as I did, but when it starts to freeze, take note of the name of the song it freezes on. That's probably the culprit .Remember it. Let the error message come up and close as always...
Step 2: Open itunes again! Click on your ipod, and then on the music tab. Immediately un-check "Sync music" ( top of the page ) and then click "apply" ( bottom right ). DO THAT FAST...before it has a chance to sync, or it will just freeze again!
Step 3: Go into your music library on itunes, and DLETE/REMOVE that song.
Step 4: Close itunes.
Step 5: Open itunes, and go again to your ipod, and click on music tab. This time, check the "sync music" box ( and apply ).
That should fix it. If it doesn't you have more than one corrupt file. In that case, close itunes and then open it again. Follow step 1 and 2 again. Remove any songs from your library that aren't that important to you ( especially those that were from questionable sources... ). Basically, you need to figure out which song ( or songs ) are causing the problem. If you just delete them all, you'd have to add them again one at a time to avoid the problem again, and that would be a pain. So, just remove as many as you feel like ( out of 1500 songs or so, I removed a couple hundred ). I left mainly the ones that were from my actual CDs or that I had bought through Amazon ( or other legit source ). I removed most of my Limewire downloads. Most of them are probably fine, but I'll add them later one at a time to be sure...
I still have plenty of Limewire songs on there, and they are fine, but, as you know, you do get bad files sometimes.
Anyways, once I did this, everything is fine and works great. I even started adding album art manually, and at one point it froze again. So, I did steps 1 and 2 again, and removed the album art I last added, and then synced again, and it was fine. Usually, the album art I add is OK, but I had that one pesky photo I guess ). So, I guess the thing is after you get the majority of your music on, just add and adjust things a little at a time, and you'll always know which file is causing you problems ( hopefully no files will!! ).
I hope this works for you. Let me know if you have any questions, and let me know if it solves your issue too!
Peace.
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I recently purchased and i pod video, any I'm experiencing a problems which I can't find a FAQ or online manual which can answer my question.
Well, my entire digital music collection is in MP3s and I found the album artwork to go with many of these tracks in preparing these to upload onto the ipod. I succussfully tranferred the artwork to i tunes, however when I update my ipod, the music comes over and only 'some' of the artwork in itunes.
It's frustrating as there otherwise does not seem to be any other problems.
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See btabz's post here: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1890424#1890424

Advanced Album Artwork issues

Is it possible to add ADDITIONAL artwork to MULTIPLE files? I see how to add an additional cover etc to a single file, but i cannot seem to get it to work with more than one at once, as it overwrites the previous artwork on all files.
For a single song, this is done by opening the songs info, and clicking the add button (which is slow and requires browsing to the image). If you try to just drag the file into the window, it overwrites whatever image is already in there. Is this supposed to happen? Furthermore, on some songs, regardless of which method i use, and regardless of if i have the previous picture selected or de-selected, it overwrites it. How can i notify apple of this? I found a contact customer service button but all of its subjects are related to other things. Am i doing something wrong?

{quote}Is it possible to add ADDITIONAL artwork to MULTIPLE files?{quote}
Yes. Instead of doing "Get info" on the songs, do this:
1. From the "View" menu, select "Show Artwork"
2. If the text above the artwork window reads "Now Playing", click the text once to change it to "Selected Item"
3. Select all the tracks you want to add artwork to.
4. Drag the picture into the artwork window. This artwork will be added; it won't overwrite existing artwork.
{quote}also, another question that just came up. i realized that artwork automatically downloaded by iTunes from the store is NOT embedded into the song file's tag. Since this is the case, where are the downloaded covers stored on the computer?{quote}
You are correct -- it is not embedded in the tag. I suppose they did this to save space, because typically you only need one copy of the artwork on your hard drive for a whole album.
The artwork is stored in your iTunes Music folder (by default it is My Documents\My Music\iTunes) in the "Album Artwork" folder. However, these are stored in an proprietary format. Some image viewers will open the files, but not all.
You can save the image to a file by simply dragging the artwork from the artwork window to any Windows Explorer window (including the Desktop).
For multiple files, you can use a java program jpegextractor to extract the images
http://schmidt.devlib.org/software/jpeg-extractor.html
Or if you can program, you can use the iTunes COM interface to save the artwork to a file.
EDIT:
If you want to embed the iTMS artwork into the ID3 tag, you can use a program I wrote to do it. Go here:
http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/index.html
and click the download button. Extract the ZIP (teridonsitunesscripts.zip) somewhere, and run "teridonsitunesscripts.exe".
In the window that appears, select "itunesinsertartwork" and click "Run Selected Script".
A new cmd prompt window will appear, listing all your playlists. Select the Library playlist by typing "1" (or, if for some reason you only want to do some tracks, choose another playlist) and hit enter. The program will automatically embed iTMS artwork into the ID3 tag.
The forum TOS requires me to say: "I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link" because I have a paypal donation link on my webpage, but the program is free (donation totally optional)
HTH,
Rob
Message was edited by: Robert Jacobson1

ITunes Album Artwork is Tinted Green

This isn't a huge problem but I'm wondering if anyone knows how to fix this. Many of my album covers in iTunes (including songs purchased through iTunes and through my iPhone) are tinted green but only when viewing in the "Albums" view: if I pull up individual song info, the artwork is no longer tinted. I suspect that they may have just been processed or displayed with an incorrect colour profile. Album artwork appears fine on my iPhone which is synced to this same computer. Is there some solution to this or perhaps a way to delete and redownload all album artwork?

Ok that's weird. This was an old message that I had tried to post a long time ago but was getting the "You cannot create or update this content" message so gave up on it. I had come back to post a different question, was having the same problem, and then read another post about how you just need to select a community and fill in the rest of the boxes at the bottom to be able to post, so I did that and it posted this old message instead of the new one!
And now I can't delete this post. Great. Way to go Apple.

"Processing album artwork" - - - ARRRRRGHHHH!

Can someone please tell me how to turn this stupid feature OFF? Please don't tell me to uncheck the option to automatically download album art. It's never been on. Anytime I make a change to my songs, the itunes software spends a good 10 minutes cycling through every album cover while displaying "Processing Album Artwork. Getting X of Y". Whenever this is going on, my entire PC becomes completely unusable. iTunes robs every spare byte of memory it can get its electronic fingers into.
Google "itunes processing album artwork" & you'll see the 100's of users reporting this exact same issue, but no one seems to know a fix. Message board questions just go unanswered. Surely there's a needle setting somewhere in the haystack of options.
HELP! I'm ready to throw this thing through the window.
Message was edited by: Vol4Ever

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