Art work information
Maybe this is not a life or death situation, but is there a way to get the Artwork info for all CDs that have been downloaded into itunes?
Purchased music does it automaticaly but is there a way possibly to get it from a program such as gracenote?
Suggestions would be very appreciated.
Gracenote does not hold that information, but here are a couple of methods.
First off, make sure you have "show album art" enabled in iPod options.
Go to Google Image Search and type in the artist/album name and click on search images.
Double click on a picture you like, then at the top of that page click on "see full size image".
When you get that image, simply copy/paste it into the space for album artwork in iTunes.
Make sure you select the album in the browser of iTunes before you copy/paste.
You'd be surprised what Google Images can bring up. There are literally millions, and even obscure album artwork can be found.
In the unlikely event that Google can’t find an image, you can also get artwork from Amazon.
If you’re happy using images from Amazon, and don’t want to copy/paste, then iTunes Art Importer is a nice free program to do it for you.
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Itunes 10.5 lost album art work
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Then, it took 2-3 sync's to finally get both the iPod and the iTunes with no music. Then, I re-checked "sync music" on iTunes and on sync, all my music was back on the iPod. Then on iTunes, I clicked "consolidate library" and it copies (it does not move) all your music in to the iTunes music folder in one place. Now all my music was back, but still a lot of art issues, so on to that.
If you use Google Images, you can find a LOT of missing album art, a lot of it is on Amazon, and other sources. You want images that are square, and somewhere between 300 x 300 and 500 x 500, ideally. Then, I use Microsoft Paint sometimes to edit the album covers if I want to change something small about the way they appear. Then put all the art in a folder in the same place. Of course, you can also run "find artwork" in iTunes to find most of your stuff.
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IPod touch not showing art works!
I have iPod touch 4G with iOS 6.1!
My ipod is apparently not showing art works! A majority of them! But the same songs have artworks in iTunes but they don't show in my iPod! What do i do? I've never had this problem! Is there an easy solution for this problem!???Try:
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least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all music and resync
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Getting correct album art work ?
I am having difficulty with getting the correct album art work.
For example today i imported the Howling Bells album, whilst importing the art work i noticed itunes had the option of 3 different album covers - the incorrect one came up by a band with Howling in their title too.
How do i correct this - as it has happend a couple of times - of their being different versions of the covers - or bringing up covers by different artists with similar names.
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Importantly, that other one may very well be correct and save us all the time of manually looking on Amazon etc. for the artwork. Besides, often other artwork's aspect ratios (Amazon, et al) don't match the iTunes aspect so your ipod will have white bars and stuff. The only alternative for me besides looking at Amazon or whatever is to delete the album from iTunes and re-rip from CD, then choose the OTHER option for which album I think it is. Dumb. -
Help I'm frustrated after shelling out for an abundance of Hed Kandi (and other)albums over the years I am now importing them on to itunes to play through Apple t.v, and my only option is to go onto some web site such as play.com and drag and drop a low pixel version of the art work which then is diplayed on my 50" t.v in a blurred mess, PLEASE HELP!!!!!!! there must be a decent web site out there that 'all you good good people' know about to give rest to this frustrating BEAST.
All the best Lance Murdoch..........when I'm not in traction I'm in action!I have had this problem many times if Itunes cannot find the Artwork it never will trust me. Strange however that the new Version 8 picked up many more than the previous. The best way i found was have a look at this script at http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=findalbumartwork this will load google images from safari and take the track information from itunes so you do not have to waste time typing then. For copyright issues i suggest you find information on what images you can or cant download from the relevant web sites.
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I have three computers, each with its own iTunes Library, but if I add material to one, every few days I make sure that it's copied over to the others via homesharing. However, some of the metadata does not transfer, specifically the album art work. So on one library, call it my Home Library, everything is nice and tidy, with album artwork where it should be. On the other two, all the albums I've painstakingly made sure are complete on the home library are missing the art work.
Any thoughts? Tune Ranger and other iTunes maintenance apps don't seem to do the job, either. Coverscout, PowerTunes and Song Sargent also fail this task.My understanding it iTunes handles artwork several ways. First, iTunes keeps a copy of all artwork in its artwork folder. Second, artwork can optionally be embedded in a media file. You can, for example, have an album where no artwork is actually in the files but all use a reference copy in the artwork folder. Even if a file has artwork embedded it may still use the version in the artwork folder.
Embedded artwork travels with the file when you copy the file.
I am hazy as to when exactly iTunes will embed artwork and when it won't. I believe, for example, if you use iTunes to fetch artwork it will not embed it, it will just place a copy in the artwork folder. Then too I never use iTunes to fetch artwork and I usually end up with artwork embedded in a file or two per LP (each embedded copy uses up more disk space). Now, I still use iTunes 7.5 and new versions may not behave exactly the same. If it was my version and I added artwork to a file it would embed it and it would transfer. It sounds like your artwork isn't embedded even if you are adding it the same way I would (I drag mine to the little arwork display box in the bottom left corner of my window, which apparently has vanished completely in iTunes 11).
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Script for embedding artwork - http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=embedart
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How to properly embed album art work into TV/Films itunes: home sharing lag
My setup is a simple apple home sharing network.
I have a mac mini running OS X 10.6.8 and itunes 11.0.4(4) it hosts a lot of music, DVD's that have been re-encoded and paid for content from itunes.
The mac mini is conntected to the network over a very good gigbit lan and has 4 apple TV3 (latest gen) hanging off the network, and multiple PC/Mac/ipod/ipad devices hanging off the network.
I connect to the itunes home sharing service with the apple TV service using the "remote" application on the ipad.
When I select Music/Albums TV Shows or Films from the menu of the itunes library the album art work loads (quickly) over the grey boxes as I scroll down. However this takes a few seconds for each "scroll" I do on the ipad (it has thousands of items in there).
The exception to the rule is any paid content, when I open Music/TV/Films menu on the ipad the paid content (especially for TV and Films) the artwork is already there, and doesn't have to load it.
How is the artwork for paid content contained differently than the artwork for content I've manually put into the itunes library.
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How can I add/change art work to albums where the art work isn't available at iTunes?
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Go to google and search for the artwork. When you find it, save it to your computer. Right click the album and select get info. Drag the image you saved to the empty box for album art.
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Close iTunes
1) Plug in Device
2) Go to Device Manager/Portable Device
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4) Browse my computer
5) Let me pick from list
6) Click Have Disk
7) Type in, or look for C:\Program Files
8) Go to Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device\Support Drivers
9) Dbl-CLick "usbaapl" file - let it do it's thing, until status bar is finished
Unplug Device- Open iTunes- plug in device- should work!
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