Artwork for all podcasts

Using itunes 8.0.1 and i am asking about podcasts on the iphone 3g with 2.1 software. I have some podcasts that are not in the itunes store, therefore, these podcasts do not have artwork. I have manually added the artwork to these podcasts. The problem is, after i listen to the podcasts and download more, the artwork does not apply to the new podcasts. Does that make sense? Listen to a podcast, sync the phone with new podcasts and the artwork is not there for the new ones. How do i make the existing artwork apply to all podcasts?

Generally for the iPod/iPhone each file needs it's own artwork. If the podcast provider doesn't embed art then, provided you don't throw away played podcasts, you can select an older episode, copy the art & then paste into the recently downloaded episode.
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Is there any way to force iTunes to show embeded artwork for video podcasts in the podcast list? Right now it shows little previews of a random frame of the latest episode. Not only is that uninformative — makes it difficult to find a particular podcast, — but also bad for my OCD.
Thanks.

Well, that's the thing: all the video podcasts in my collection have artwork assigned when I look them up in iTunes Store. For example: the official Apple Keynotes podcast, Diggnation, Tekzilla, etc. But in iTunes, they — and every other video podcast — all show a still frame instead of artwork.
All the audio podcasts in my collection display their respective artwork just fine.

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How do you set the artwork for a video podcast so it will show within the itunes library? I'm not talking about the end user setting the artwork but the podcast creator. Seems that itunes uses the first frame of video as a default but I have seen other video podcasts have a specific picture, not the first frame of video, as their artwork. Example, subscribe to Creative Cows Final Cut Pro Podcast and there is a picture in your podcast library.
Here is my xml file
http://www.ci.lakeville.mn.us/podcasts/meetings/podcast.xml
I use Lemonz Dream's "Podcast Maker" to create the xml files.

No bites on this one yet? . . . Okay, I'll have a go.
So what you want to do is set the artwork for your podcast . . . Fairly easily done, but you first need to understand something about artwork for your podcast FILE versus artwork for your feed XML. (They are two completely separate things!) In the case of what you want, your XML code (and the artwork linked therein) doesn't matter because it doesn't affect the podcast file once it has been put into a podcatcher of some sort (e.g. iTunes). The artwork from your XML is only really of use to the iTMS and sundry web readers. So, have no worries about what method/program you are using to create your code or the validity of your file.
To set/change an individual episode's artwork you actually have to edit the .mov (or whatever) file. Hold on - that's not as scary as it may sound. First, do you already have the artwork that you want to use? Or do you want to capture a "good" frame from your video and use that? If you already have artwork, awesome. If you want to use a certain frame from your video, all that you need to do is play your video and freeze it on the desired frame and take a screen capture. (To take a screen cap, use Print Screen or Alt+Print Screen on a PC; or Command-Shift-3 or Command-Shift-4 on a Mac -- crop it if needed, and save the file as a jpeg/gif.)
After you have your desired artwork lined up, all you need to do is open your .mov in iTunes. Right- or Ctrl-click on the file, and select the option "Get Info." A window should come up - the last tab will say "artwork." Select the artwork tab, select and delete the pre-fab iTunes issue artwork, and then click "add." This will allow you to select the file of your desired artwork. After you've added the artwork, click "okay." Your file has been successfully modified, and is now ready to be uploaded!
And ta-da, when someone downloads your podcast file, the artwork will show up when they play the file (or in coverflow). Why? Because the artwork is now part your video file, and it is included in the download of your podcast.
More info, and possibly less confusion, about what is going on with this topic can be found here. (When you're reading it, just replace "MP3" with "MOV" in your head.)
Peach

Release date set to 1/5/11 for all podcasts and iTunes U files

I have an ongoing problem with iTunes on my MacBook Pro where the release date is set to 1/5/11 for all podcasts and iTunes U files. Although I can seemingly correctly sort by release date, the date is the same across all files. Can someone advise as to how I might go about correcting this such that the actual, proper, release date is shown? Thanks in advance for the help! - mvrb

@King_Penguin thanks for your help
See below some additional info:
I have 3 Macs:
1 X MBPr 2012 (OS X 10.9.1
1 X MBPr 2012 (OS X 10.8.5)
1 X iMac 2009 (OS X 10.8.5)
1) All 3 Macs have access to same accounts and have same apps in iTunes.
2) Problem is only found on both MBPr's 2012 with one NL and 1 US account. With one NL account (inactive) I have no issue on all three.
FYI I have multiple iTunes accounts: 2 for the Netherlands and 1 for US.
I also tried this after deleting the only 2 apps I got from the US iTunes Store but that did not solve my issue.
I think the matter is related to my iTunes account(s) and NOT to a computer (prefs file)

The artwork for our podcast, "Japan Baseball Weekly," recently disappeared. The RSS feed info appears to be in order, any particular reason for this and what can be done to rectify the situation?

The artwork for our podcast, "Japan Baseball Weekly," recently disappeared. The RSS feed info appears to be in order, any particular reason for this and what can be done to rectify the situation?

Please always post the URLs of the Store page and the feed when you have a question. For reference, your feed is at
http://www.japanesebaseball.com/services/jbw-podcasts.jsp
and the Store page is at
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/japan-baseball-weekly/id443149184
Looking at the Store page, the image appears there perfectly well. On subscribing there is no image associated with the episodes because you haven't embedded an image in the files - please see this page for clarification:
http://homepage.mac.com/rfwilmut/notes/coverart.html

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I just updated to IOS 7 and when I try to play a podcast that I am subscribed to, I get "playback failed" for all podcasts. The odd thing is that if I am connected via wifi, it seems to work fine. If wifi is not there, I get that error.
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iOS: Troubleshooting applications purchased from the App Store
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Do I have to cut and paste album artwork for all the albums in my library?

So my 4gb ipod 1st gen is pretty much dead so I've bought a 3rd gen. 8gb nano, upgraded my iTuunes software to 7.5 and syncd my library onto my new iPod. All songs I've bought from iTunes have album artwork and one other old album I uploaded myself alos has album artwork but all 130 of the other albums in my library do not have artwork.
I've gone to Advanced> Get Album Artwork, but I get the error message "could not find some artwork". I can't understand why only one of my uploaded albums has artwork visible on iTunes but all of the others don't? Do I really ahve to cut and past from Amazon for each album? Hope the anser is "No" becasue that's really time consuming!

I guess you've figured out that the answer is "yes". Remember you can do groups of songs (like an album) at a time by selecting them and doing "get info". Also, by saving album art in the mp3 file, you can save it permanently.

Cover flow displays the same two pieces of artwork for all videos.

I've been adding a collection of tv series I have on DVD to iTunes 9.1.1, it all worked fine initially, I opened each video up of a series of tv programs and used the "Set Poster Frame" option to capture a frame of the program to use as the artwork for that program.
I normally have the programs sorted by what tv program they belong to, so Cover flow only displays the first episode of a series' artwork. I'm not sure why though but something I did yesterday appears to have caused cover flow to blow a fuse.
If I chose to sort by name before, cover flow would display all the artwork for each episode, and it showed all the different artworks correctly. Now though after some fiddling I did which I cannot seem to recount my steps back to, it only displays the same two pieces of artwork from two particular episodes for all the videos when it is sorted via name:
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/3052/tvprogcoverflow.png
I've tried removing all the artwork, but there doesn't seem to be an option to delete the poster frame and the poster frame artwork doesn't show up under the artwork tab for the individual videos so I can't delete anything from there. If I select all the videos and then right click and get info, then select the artwork check box and click OK it seemingly deletes all the artwork... Then replaces it again with the exact same artwork!
Although cover flow shows each video has having the same artwork if I Get Info each video it clearly shows it having the correct artwork so why cover flow is messing around like this I don't know.
I've tried deleting the album artwork cache in the itunes folder, didn't work. I even tried deleting my entire itunes folder which I have separate from my library and the hidden prefs file in my actual library, but that didn't work either.
Interestingly enough, if I re-add all the videos they automatically get listed as films and go under the film tab. When looking at them under their cover flow correctly shows every episode with the right artwork:
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8234/filmcoverflow.png
As soon as I change the Get Info options tab from Film to TV program either for one video or all of them, then cover flow screws up again.
Any idea how to fix this annoyance?

The weird thing is, it worked before. I encoded all the videos previously and had them all listed and didn't encounter this problem, but I noticed I'd forgotten to decomb/detelecine the videos so I deleted everything and re-encoded it all. AFter filling the tags out and setting poster frames again I was thinking of making life easier by just pasting the same artwork for every episode, so I did, but didn't like the results so I deleted it again (I selected every video, used Get Info and pasted the artwork that way).
I think it was after this that the problem started to occur. In any case I've been through every episode and made sure the name, series, episode and episode id fields are all filled in with incremental values and they are. I even made sure the Sort Name field was filled in on every video. But this didn't work either.
So, thinking another restart was needed I deleted every video again. Re-encoded them all, again. Set the tags for every video and poster frame again. Finished it all off nicely, checked cover flow and was highly annoyed to find it was STILL showing the same two pieces of art work for every video as shown in that image I posted.
Ultimately, I wouldn't care so much that cover flow is screwing up like this as I always intended to sort by program anyway so it would only ever display one piece of artwork for an entire series of videos, however where-as when it was working it picked the artwork for the first episode of a series to display, its instead picking one of the latter episodes. I can't seem to find any way of choosing what artwork I want displayed.

Cannot recolor artwork for all objects in Vector?

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I used Live Trace to create a Vector. On some of the objects in Vector I can recolor artwork, but others there is no options to recolor. Does anyone know why and is it possible to see recolor options for all objects?

Recolor artwork is a great tool for recoloring specific colors in the artwork without having to select specific objects and and change the swatch used for that object. If you select all, and enter the recolor function you should see all the swatches for all the selected art, and change a swatch color throughout the artwork. There is much more to this function, but for what you're doing this is a quick easy way to effect color changes to all objects colored with a specific swatch. Check the on line help, Help>Illustrator Help for more on recoloring.
Here is a Tutorial if you're intrested too.
http://rwillustrator.blogspot.com/2009/01/tutorial-recoloring-artwork.html

Changing artwork for a podcast published in iTunes

Hello,
I recently created my own website in iWeb and published it to my .Mac account. Then I added a few podcasts created with GarageBand, they are also published on my .Mac website.
Then I submitted the podcast to iTunes. iTunes "took over" the artwork from the website with no author information, and there was no way in changing that during the submission. The podcast got approved but now the artwork that is used in iTunes is not really what I want. iTunes also lists "Unknown" as author.
Have a look yourself: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=211034820
Is there a way that I can change that? Yes, I have read the techspecs provided by Apple, but I do not really want to go down to bits and bytes and, above all, want that everythings continues to run automatically. I do not want to make manual changes to code everytime I republish the site.
Thanks for your suggestions, happy New Year by the way. Cheers,
Jean-Paul
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi Jean-Paul,
Although I haven't actual experience yet in publishing to iTunes, I would guess that to update your podcast series artwork there, it is simply a question of dragging a new image to the top-most placeholder in your iWeb podcast page. As the message says when you mouse-over that placeholder: "Drag a new image here to replace it." ...Then re-publish your site to .Mac.
The next step is extracted from someone else's post:
...Then you are supposed to ping iTunes and check back in an hour.
Here's the ping url if you don't have it...
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast?id=YOURFEEDHERE
The "YOURFEEDHERE" is where you put your feed number from iTunes. It's in your acceptance email that iTunes sent you when your podcast was posted.
<<<<<<<<<<
...But whatever image you drop into that particular iWeb theme's placeholder, it will appear distorted in iTunes because the iTunes artwork holder is square, not rectangular - as your placeholder and image is. Try using iWeb's "White" template podcast page instead of your current template. The White's top-most placeholder is square (245x245 pixels) and therefore should not distort your image in iTunes.
By the way, Jean-Paul, I listened to the first episode of your "Flyfisherjournal" podcast on iTunes and found it both interesting and enjoyable - even though I've never fished before in my life! And the "tiny part of eternity" you mentioned can be found in any situation - by simply paying attention to the shapes and colors in your peripheral vision. With that practice, instead of just looking, you are also aware of yourself looking...
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Date Last Played not showing for all podcasts listend to

I cannot figure out why some podcasts that I have listed to (after syncing my iPod) will show the date played while others do not.

I haven't seen this for podcasts specifically, but several others have reported that last played and playcounts aren't updating for them for music.
We do know it works (for music, at least) for others, so I'm not sure what the common problem is here. It's even weirder if you say it works for you sometimes and not others.
The only thing I can think of offhand is to make sure you are playing the podcast all the way through -- with last played and playcounts even if you play the song to the end it won't get updated until it "skips" to the next song. Since you can't play multiple videos perhaps that is also the issue here but a little experimentation on your part might reveal what the "trick" is.

Changing artwork for submitted podcast

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I have submitted a podcast URL is https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/lynn-coxs-podcast/id555988938 and would like to know how I go about changing the artwork image that is now appearing to something else.
thanks

The image URL in your feed is podcastanagrammaticalunsods.podomatic.com/images/pcast240.jpg
The image which shows appears to be a default Podomatic image:
If this is the image you specified then all you have to do is to specify a new one in the same place (give it a different filename). However some of these online services insist on placing their own image instead of yours: I don't know whether Podomatic is one of them.

Artwork For A Podcast

I have a few questions on podcast artwork!
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2.) Is it better to have someone create your podcast artwork or just go ahead and get it from an image search engine.
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1.) Is it okay to use pictures from google images for
artwork or do I need permission from the website it
is from to use it.
That depends on the individual image: if it is in copyright, then strictly you need permission to use it. In particular if it has come from a commercial photo library then you could lay yourself open to a demand for a large fee. If it is an old photo you would probably be safe: if it is people's private photos you should ask as a matter of courtesy. However there is a fair amount of royalty-free material floating about (mostly drawings) if you can identify them as such.
2.) Is it better to have someone create your podcast
artwork or just go ahead and get it from an image
search engine.
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No Artwork for all my albums :(

When I click on Get Album Artwork, it says processing album artwork and when its done, there is no artwork display!! can anyone tell me why?

Sometimes if you have a CD (not downloaded from iTunes) then the CD name will be different to what iTunes recognises as the album. Try going to the iTunes store, finding the album on there, then changing the album name to whatever it is called on iTunes.
To change the name of the album:
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iTunes 9 had an option in list view, were you could see the album artwork for all song on the left. iTunes 10 do not have this option or you can see them only for albums in the album list view. Apple say, it is good for saving space. But c'mon, what if I do not have albums, just single songs, I cannot see the artwork for them? In my opinion artwork is also useful, because you can identify song better you like, you can more easily search for them! So I would like to have this option back! Hope for an update!

let Apple know via _*iTunes feedback*_.
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