Finding songs with low-res coverart?

I have some songs with low-resolution coverart in itunes - since it used to just be for my ipod/iphone, it didnt matter.. now with the ipad, its very obvious (once it goes full-screen). Problem is, I don't know which of my songs have low-res artwork. Is there a way to easily find this out? like sort out "Any songs with images under 250x250"?

FBMike wrote:
I have some songs with low-resolution coverart in itunes - since it used to just be for my ipod/iphone, it didnt matter.. now with the ipad, its very obvious (once it goes full-screen). Problem is, I don't know which of my songs have low-res artwork. Is there a way to easily find this out? like sort out "Any songs with images under 250x250"?
I've slowly replaced old, low res cover art on iTunes. There is no way to search for it under those parameters, so the best thing to do is start over (unless you have a really rare album cover, but we can fix that too).
Select all of your songs in iTunes library. Right click on any song (all will show up) and Get Info. Click the box next to artwork (should be in white). This wipes all of the album artwork you have stored (yes, you're going to have to do this).
Now, go to Advanced, Get Album Artwork, and iTunes will populate all of the photos with High Res versions (in my experience, it is high res, but I can't guarantee that all will be).
Some albums, those not licensed on iTunes, will require you to go to Amazon. Find the album, copy the image and paste it in the Artwork section of each album.
This should work.

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