Can't add artwork for WAV file?

It's true. I tried. Is that supposed to happen? Why can't I put artwork on a WAV file in iTunes?

i think and am pretty sure that the album art is saved into the tracks data tags. There is a difference between the data tag on a file and the iTunes database infomation. Things like artist, album, genre go into the tracks data tag. Things like ratings and playcount go into the database file (see ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Database). If the artwork were stored in iTunes then it would global and across all formats and would not be retained if music is moved around. I think that album art is preserved if a track is moved and as you've pointed out album art can't be added to some formats such as WAV so i'm guessing that album art is a codec limitation. WAV is pretty old a raw uncompressed format that is much larger than mp3 or aac. You would need to convert the audio to one of these formats to add album art. To do this set your import options to one of these codecs under the importing tab in the advanced pane of the iTunes preferences. Then with the WAVs selected in iTunes go to the Advanced Menu in the main menu bar and click on 'Convert Selection to <Codec you chose>'
Hope that helps
DKR

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Why can't I add artwork for wav files

I have a few music in my iTunes that are in WAV audio format, in the get info I am not able to add missing artwork like I can do all the others audio format and yes I have tried the get album artwork from iTunes but it says could not be found. What is this?

Perhaps if you asked in the iTunes for Windows forum rather than here in the iPad in the Enterprise forum, someone might have suggestions.
Regards.

Artwork for WAV files?

Does anyone know how to import album artwork into iTunes for a WAV file. Nothing happens after bringing in the artwork. Can it be done?

@Dj_AmTraX: good tip!
I tried to first load my music as apple lossless and added the artwork (via get info, artwork, add) then loaded all the music a second time additionally in the WAV file format. The album artwork then appeared in iTunes for all the WAV files too. So one could say yes, it can be done but apparently on iTunes only with a bit of extra work and the restriction of needing to have the music stored in two different formats.
It is a pity that Apple's iTunes doesn't support linking WAV files to artwork jpgs as standard.
The more mp3-like the product the less likely they seem inclined to offer good functionality for the (hi-fi, bulkier) WAV format. Now storage is so less expensive they should maybe re-think? I find high-resolution audio files so much better on a good hi-fi system ;-)
@any_WAV_enthusiast: Who has found the method above to work for them?
Maybe someone now knows a quicker or easier method to get artwork shown for WAV files in iTunes / on i-devices?

Adding artwork to .wav files

Why can you not add artwork to .wav files?
I am a DJ, and create mix cd's. I have iTunes 7. I wanted to use iTunes to burn the CD's, and I thought it would be nice for my listeners to have a copy of my album artwork for each particular CD. Is there not a way to at least add a file to a cd that you are burning from a playlist? It doesn't even give you the option. It just starts burning the CD. I guess I could just do it manually through windows, and add the jpeg file, but it says there is not enough space on my blank disc. Why would the files be larger? It says I have to get rid of 25 MB os stuff from the disc. The picture file is only 3 MB. Plus, this is a CD that I've been burning for over a year. No problems before. Why won't iTunes work with it? Am I missing something?
Also, some of my track names are long. I list the original artist - track name - and sometimes who did the particular remix. Maybe I'm missing something here, but why is it that when I import a song to iTunes, part of the file name is cut off? Windows has been pestering me with this for so long. Anytime I move a file, or copy the music file contents of a folder, the names get cut short, and I have to sit, and rename each of them. It makes me sick! Now, iTunes is doing it.
I imported the Songs into iTunes. I burned a CD. I ejected the CD, and re-inserted it. It pops up in iTunes with all of the track information that I put into it. However, if I click on the drive in windows, there are no track names.
what gives?

figment222,
A couple of things. .wav files are uncompressed audio files with no support for "tagging" information to them. When you insert an audio CD in a Windows-based PC they appear as .wav files to allow you to drag and drop them as a way of importing them as uncompressed audio. On a Mac they will appear as AIFF.
The artwork is stored in a "tag" in an MP3 or AAC file. This article has more information:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93672
When you enter information for an Audio CD, iTunes can not write that information to the CD, but will remember that information on your computer. This article gives more information:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93952

In iTunes 10.4 or 10.5 beta I can't add artwork

In iTunes 10.4 or 10.5 beta I can't add artwork to ALAC files by pasting or dragging them to the album.
Please fix this.

It's a bug with iTunes 10.4.0.80 (and presumably the beta?). If you copy and paste from some web browsers or an image editor then iTunes pastes in a transparent image of the same dimensions. This shows up black in the artwork panel at the bottom left or white in the get info art viewer.
If you work with an image file stored on your computer you should get better results. Use the artwork box on the Info tab of the Get Info. dialog for multiple tracks to replace all existing images. With a single track you will need to delete the existing corrupt images from the Artwork tab first.
tt2

Album artwork feature for .wav files inexplicably removed from iTunes.

Hello, I was wondering if Apple would please allow us to display artwork in iTunes for albums that contain .wav files. Waves just sound better to me. I remember back in 2004 or so this feature was available in iTunes, nearly a decade ago, but now it has been inexplicably removed. I am not interested in compromising the sound quality of the .wav file by converting them to compressed formats, Apple lossless, or even Apple's rival to the .wav file. Thank you.

I don't think .wav format has ever supported artwork. It is possible (I don't have any wav format files) I guess if it is added to iTunes that iTunes can add artwork for it in its own database, but wav does not support tags or artwork embedding.

Can't seem to add artwork to pdf files

In the "Books" tab, I can add artwork to epub books, but I can't seem to add artwork to pdf files. Is this a normal thing? Or is there something I'm doing wrong?
Also, do you know what I should be setting my page widths to if I want the pdf files I create to display nicely in Portrait mode on an iPhone? The ones I made seem to only look nice in Landscape mode.

Devin, If they end in .ogg, they are OGG Vorbis files. This is a well-known open-source music format, but iTunes is unable to play it.
Also, as you have just learned, when iTunes encounters a file that is not copmatible, it "errors silently," i.e. gives no indication of what they problem is.
To resolve it, use a 3rd party conversion program such as Switch to convert the OGG files into MP3, and then they will add to iTunes.

Artwork/converting wav files

How does one get artwork onto wav files? If that's not possible, will converting solve the issue? iTunes help has what seems to be a simple way to convert wav to mp3, but I couldn't get it to work.
Has anyone solved this dilemma?
If it matters, I'm trying to add "misc." artwork, not an actual album cover or anything.

Carl2444 wrote:
will converting solve the issue?
definitely
iTunes help has what seems to be a simple way to convert wav to mp3, but I couldn't get it to work.
i was just running into this in another thread. here's what Zevoneer suggested:
+If the tracks are in your iTunes library (and there is no DRM copy protection on them) go to Edit>Preferences>General (or iTunes>Preferences>General on a Mac) and choose the Import Settings button. Pick the format you want to convert your files to (MP3 for example). in your iTunes library or playlist highlight the song or songs you want to convert and go to the Advanced menu on the top bar of iTunes and choose, again for example "Create MP3 version":How to convert a song to a different file format. You can't use iTunes to convert tracks that are not in your iTunes library.+
does that fix your issue ?

Cannot add artwork to certain files

I am using the latest version of iTunes (7.3.2(6)) and I am having a frustrating problem. For certain music files, I am unable to add artwork. I am aware that some people were having this issue with AIFF files, but I am also having it with AAC files. For instance, I have one album consisting of 10 tracks, all of them AAC files at 192 kbps. I see the "Drag Artwork Here" message in the lower right corner of my screen, and when I drag an appropriately sized jpeg to the image, it seems to stay put. If I highlight another file, and then go back to the first one, the artwork that was there a minute ago has vanished. There doesn't seem to be any way to add artwork to these files.
I have had the same issue with other albums: can add artwork to some tracks and they stay just fine, and others disappear immediately after adding them. I did not have this problem with previous versions of iTunes.
Anyone else experiencing this issue with AAC files? Any suggestions?
Thanks!

I had the same problem. So I closed iTunes and located the files in the finder and it turned out some of the files I had ripped eons ago were .mpg instead of .mp3. I just changed the extension on these old files to .mp3 and the artwork I had pasted miraculously appeared the next time I opened iTunes. Not sure if just changing the extension is the best way to deal with this for all file types, but it worked for me.
PS I was also having problems with the files holding artist name changes - this also fixed that problem.

Can't add artwork - bizarre iTunes behavior

Okay - this is bizarre - I imported an album into iTunes 9 (downloaded from the Artist's website). I added the artwork and changed the genre and number of tracks, but these changes only "stuck" to about 4 of the 19 tracks. No matter what I did, I couldn't add the artwork to the 15 tracks that needed it. And - interestingly - if I next/previoused through the tracks on the album, all of the values that I changed would revert to the original values the tracks had when they imported. It was almost as if iTunes couldn't change the ID3 tags in the mp3 files. (Well, I guess it really couldn't when it came down to it.)
I solved the problem by right-clicking all the tracks and selecting "Create MP3 verssion" - essentially duplicating the MP3 files. I was then able to successfully get my changes to "stick" to the new files. (And then I deleted the originals I imported.)
What is this strange strange behavior all about?

There are three common causes for this:
your media are in a format that doesn't accommodate embedded artwork - typically WAV files. To embed artwork you'll need to convert to another format - Apple Lossless or AIFF if you want to preserve lossless quality, AAC or MP3 otherwise.
your media files are read only - to fix this, use Windows Explorer to find the folder that contains your files, right-click and select Properties. On the General tab there's a check box labeled "Read-only" - if this is checked, or is grey (sometimes blue), click the box so that the flag is unchecked and the box is white. Click OK, and then OK again when the "Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files" option selected. Now try adding the artwork again.
Windows permissions issues are preventing iTunes from updating your media files (there's some anecdotal evidence of a change in this behavior in iTunes 12). See turingtest2's notes on Repair security permissions for iTunes for Windows for advice on fixing this, then try adding the artwork again.

Podcast Problem - how can i add artwork to apple blog rss link

hi,
i create a wiki blog page on our mac server, on the blog page i add video for podcasting and i enable podcast service on wiki settings. Then i take rss link from safari and i subscribe to itunes but when itunes check my link, there isnt artwork and i cant change the rss link code cause of the link generated automaticly from java. What can i do for this problem or how can i add artwork to apple blog servers rss link ?
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Bonjour,
The rules are simple: one entry = one page
if an article needs several pages, start this article on blog entry then continue with a page made with welcome page template or blank page template.
you can change the link of the buttons "next" and "previous" to visit the pages you choose.
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Don't include these other pages in navigation menu.
(inspector > Page > Page > uncheck "include page in navigation menu").

Can i add watermarks to PDF files using the PDF Pack?

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This Help document describes how to watermark a PDF in Acrobat: Add watermarks to PDFs
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Where can I get codec for ISO files?

Where can I get codec for ISO files?Premiere Elements

An ISO is actually not a video file, it is a container... somewhat like a ZIP file that contains other files
I do not know if it will PLAY what is inside an ISO, but I use Imgburn to write an ISO to DVD
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I can't get artwork for a specific album recently added

I can't get artwork for a recently added album. All other albums have thier proper artwork, no issues. just Smashing Pumpkins...

Hello, nicgeo.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
iTunes will only download album artwork for songs that it can find in the iTunes Store. iTunes will check each song in your iTunes library and attempt to match it up with a song in the iTunes Store. If the data matches, iTunes will download the album artwork from the iTunes Store and add it to the song in your iTunes library. If iTunes does not find a particular song's artwork in the iTunes Store, you will not see an alert message. iTunes simply does not download artwork for that song. If the data does not match, you will have to add the artwork manually.
iTunes 11 for Windows: Add artwork to songs and other items
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12361
Cheers,
Jason H.

XMP Schema for WAV files

Hi,
I am planning to use XMP metadata for WAV files and I would like to create a Schema for the same. I know that that XMP has schemas for other Formats like TIFF and EXIF. If there is a XMP schema for WAV already(probably the Adobe Audition uses it), I would like to use it; else, I have to create a custom XMP WAV schema.

Greetings,
Since a WAVE file is actually a simple RIFF file format, I think it should fit into my proposal for embedding XMP data in RIFF files (I already posted it somewhere else in this forum). (For WAVE schemas, thats another story)...
p.s: I have not had any comment from Adobe on this proposal, either they don't read this forum or they don't care...
Comments?
I have the same proposal for IFF files (AIFF/ILBM etc) if you wish to have it?
Here follows the specification:
Embedding XMP data into IBM-Microsoft RIFF file formats
=====================================================================
This proposal permits adding XMP compatible metadata to standard
RIFF files. A RIFF file is composed of chunks of data; each of
the chunks precedeed by a header giving the type of data that
follows, as well as the length of the data in the chunk. For
more information on the RIFF file format, consult the specification
"Multimedia Programming Interface and Data Specifications 1.0"
Including XMP data in an RIFF compatible file is a matter
of adding a subchunk to the INFO LIST chunk. The subchunk
ID for this type of date shall be "IXMP".
Guidelines for RIFF writers
If the XMP packet is to be used, the software can optionally
write out all other INFO LIST registered (from the standard),
assuming the following mapping:
IRSC dc:creator
ICRD dc:date
ICMT dc:description
ICOP dc:rights
IKEY dc:subject
INAM dc:title
IGNR dc:type
IARL dex:source
In the case where they are written, for better validation by reader
software, the XMP packet should also contain the xmp:MetadataDate
property.
For better portability, and to easily modify the embedded
XMP data, the following guidelines should be followed by
the RIFF writer:
- The XMP packet should contain the full packet signature;
this permits easier searching for tools that do not
understand the RIFF file format.
- The XMP packet should be encoded in UTF-8.
- As specified in the XMP specification, an XMP packet
should be filled with blank spaces for easier updating of
the XMP packet without rewriting the entire file.
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- Only one "IXMP" chunk should be present in the INFO LIST
chunk. Preferrably, there should only be one INFO LIST
chunk per file.
Guidelines for RIFF readers
If an XMP packet is present in an RIFF file, then one of
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metadata from the file:
If the existing metadata chunks are also present,
then, one of the following solutions can be used:
a) Compare the xmp:MetadataDate property with the
file modification date to determine which chunk to use
: either the IXMP subchink or the other info subchunks.
(If the file modification date is greater than
xmp:MetadataDate, it is probably safe to assume that
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by software that does not
understand XMP packets).
b) Simply ignore these chunks and use the XMP
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c) Simply ignore the XMP chunk , and use the
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