Is Album Artwork Free?

I have quite a few songs/CDs that I don't have album artwork for. I've run across the "Get Album Artwork" feature in iTunes, but I want to know if it's free. I have an account and I just don't want to see any unexpected charges on my credit card. Are there any charges for using this feature and getting my album artwork this way?
Thanks.

Yes it's free. No charges.
Personally, I recommend not leaving your CC info in iTunes (for security).
If you want to purchase, add your card info, make the purchase then remove the card info.

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Album artwork free?

a friend of mine told me that my credit card will be charged if i download album artwork through iTunes..is that true? i thought it was free.

Album artwork is free.
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Downloading album artwork-- free?

I see that there is an option to get album artwork on the itunes page. Would I be charged to download the artwork or do charges only apply to songs and videos?

Generally it only downloads the artwork for songs you purchased thru the Apple Store. Most times when you use iTunes to rip a CD, it will include the artwork. If not, or if you have files that were ripped by another program or for some reason don't include the art, go to Amazon.com and find the CD and click on it. The display will include the album art. RIGHT click on the album cover and click COPY, which will copy the jpg to your clipboard.
Then go back to iTunes and paste the artwork.

Remove Album Artwork from iPod

I recently had to reset my iPod. Previously, I attempted to maximize my available space on my 2 GB iPod by changing settings to do not show my album artwork. I went to edit, preferences and clicked on music as the on-line instructions indicated. I could not find the option to turn off my artwork. It seems like before my reset, my iPod would hold approx 500 songs. Now is holds less than 400. Is this because of the artwork?

Hello NationwideGA,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
There used to be an option from under your iPod's Summary tab in iTunes that allow you to choose whether or not you wanted to include artwork on your iPod. However, as of iTunes 9, this option is no more and the default is that artwork is included on your iPod.
So now the only way to remove all the artwork from your iPod is to remove it from each of your tracks in iTunes and I'm not exactly sure that is something you want to do. Even if you did, it wouldn't free up a significant amount of space on your iPod overall. At best a very small fraction a percentage.
Not sure why you can only sync fewer songs now, but have you tried restoring your iPod yet?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1339?viewlocale=en_us
B-rock

ITunes album artwork screen saver possible with external library?

I just moved my iTunes library to an external drive to free up space on my MacBook, and I was wondering if there's a way to still use the album artwork screen saver when the external drive is not connected? I still have my artwork folder on my internal drive but when it is not connected, it says, "Your iTunes Library does not contain any songs with artwork." Is there a place where the screen saver info is saved? or does it only work with the library itself?

hi,
it will only work when your library could be available.
beside, if I may suggest, it is more reliable to place your library files on your external drive along with your songs than keeping the library files on the internal drive. that way, you will avoid the issue to mistakenly open your library while your external drive isn't mounted.

Unable to find album artwork?

I am picking up the CD details when I add it to my i-tunes but not the album artwork? I receive a message that artwork is unavailable?The trial version of Rinse seems to be able to locate it but not i-tunes?!.I'd rather go with the free download before paying for another download.

Hey sergeX,
Here is a link that will help you report an issue with this purchase:
How to report an issue with your iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, or iBooks Store purchase
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1933
Thanks for coming to the Apple Support Communities!
Cheers,
Braden

How to get album artwork

Hi. How can I download album artwork in iTunes? I can't create a store account as I don't have a credit card. Stupid that I can't create an account without a credit card.
Does someone have a dead itunes account that I can use to get album artwork?

You don't have to have a credit card, you can buy a iTUnes music card from places like wal mart or use a free itunes code from some promotion off a candy bar, soda bottle, cereal ect ect

Displaying album artwork

My itunes displays all album artwork, my 80gb classic ipod does not. In cover flow on my ipod, I am missing 2 albums whose artwork came from the itunes store. When scrolling through my music by albuums, almost 50% of the album artwork is black (not the gray screen with the music notes). Although when I actually select the song to listen to it, the artwork appears. Anyone know why this is happening?
Thanks.

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How Much it Costs to Get Album Artwork

Does it cost anything to get album artwork?
I hope it doesn't because I chose the automatic artwork option.

Album artwork is free. If you want the artwork to be put with your songs on your ipod automatically, you need an iTunes store acount (but you still don't need to pay) or you can put the art on manually by selecting the songs, going to get info, go onto the net finding the art, and dragging it to the album artwork section

Album Artwork trouble

This isn't a huge deal, but it's still really annoying. Anyway, I noticed that the album artwork for some songs would not show on my ipod (even though it did show in iTunes)
So, I tried unchecking "display album artwork" which told me that all the artwork was being deleted (even though it is still technically ON my iPod... the artwork still shows in iTunes) and when I tried to synch the artwork BACK, it said it encountered a -50 error about 75% of the way through. So... now the album artwork on my iPod doesn't work for any song and I have no idea what to do.
Someone help, please?

I don't use a Windows machine but my guess is that your songs never have album arts attach to it. Maybe Windows Media Player has those albums arts. If you have an iTunes account, you can download album arts for free. In iTunes go to Edit>Select All then go to Advanced>Get Album Artwork.

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
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FYI: How much room does album artwork take up on the iPod?

I was wondering the answer to this question before I tried it, so I thought I'd let other people know what I found out:
With the new 'get album artwork' feature in iTunes 7, I've added a bunch of artwork to my library, but was worried it would take up too much space if I loaded the art onto my 4GB iPod nano as well (through a checkbox in the 'music' section of the ipod overview screen). It turns out the size required is pretty modest, and for me worth it.
I had 735 songs taking up 3.64 GB, with 80mb free. Adding the artwork only took up about 17mb, leaving me with about 63mb free. Not bad.
iBook G4 800Mhz 12", iPod nano (1st gen) Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I did a test on this several months ago, by attaching the same artwork at different resolutions. The result is that the .jpg file is added into the the .mp4 file as is - no compression on the data seems to be going on, judging from the differences in file sizes. There is definitely good reason to keep your artwork small, but not so small that the iPod has to upsample it to display (you'll get a blurry/pixellated image in that case). I keep mine all at 180x180. Since the new video iPod has 240 lines, it may be good to go a little higher. But some images you get off the web are big (and have other problems as well), so using automatic artwork loaders will work against you in this case. Personally, I don't mind spending a minute or so (while the CD imports) to clean up the image before I add it to the songs.

Get Album Artwork doesn't recognize mainstream artists

I ripped my mp3 collection from Audiograbber using Freedb (a free database for album info) and put them onto an external hard drive. I've added the folder to my iTunes music library, but when I try to get album artwork, it says "Could not get artwork for some albums." and lists albums from artists like Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin (48 in total). When I actually go look at each file, it has enough tag information to find the album (title - "Back in the Saddle", artist - "Aerosmith", album - "Rocks", genre - "Hard Rock"... everything it needs).
What about the file is iTunes not recognizing? Audiograbber uses ID3 tags.

So if the album isn't available in the iTunes store, it's not recognized? That's ridiculous. That's like saying if I don't buy through iTunes, I shouldn't use iTunes to sync my music to my iPod. That sounds like Apple again following only wherever the dollar goes.
Windows Media Player uses All Music Guide, which stores everything whether you can buy it through anybody or not. Apple makes great devices, but they're continually pushing me away from them because they put the almighty dollar first and me second. Hopefully Google will integrate their online music service and I won't have to worry about whether an album I can buy just about anywhere won't be recognized by Apple's proprietary dollar-munching service.

Transfering Album Artwork and Play Counts

I'm about to buy a new computer but want to make sure that when I install iTunes that I can take the play counts and album art work from my old computer and transfer them to the new one. My music is on an external hard drive and isn't an issue.

OK, so your music files are on an EHD. Is folder where your music files are located on the EHD the designated "iTunes Music" folder?
The location of the "iTunes Music" folder is set in Edit>>Preferences>>advanced>>General.
You need to have all your music files in the designated iTunes Music folder if you want a trouble free transfer. If this is not the case, you need to sort it out before the transfer. Ask if you need help with this.
Next what is the location of your iTunes folder? By default it is in My Music on the c:drive, but some people with EHDs have it on the EHD.
Assuming you have the default loaction...
The iTunes folder contains the library database files and the album artwork folder, so it will need to be transferred. The best way to do this is to install iTunes on the new PC, then drag the iTunes folder that was created out to of Music the desk top and replace it with the one from the old PC.
You will probably have to adjust the permissions of the copied iTunes folder to give your account full control or Vista may not grant the new account write access.
Then with the EHD plugged in, start iTunes and set the location of the iTunes Music folder in preferences.
If you want to copy the music to the new computer after you have everything working on the new computer, you can set the loaction of the iTunes Music folder back to iTunes Music in the iTunes folder on the c: drive and then consolidate. This will copy the files across.
P.S. For info:
Here is the Apple help on migrating using an iPod:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1329?viewlocale=en_US
They are using the iPod as an EHD but the difference from your situation is that they assume a default set up with the iTunes Music folder in the iTunes folder on the c: drive.
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ITunes not finding album artwork

I'm getting a bit sick of this - why does iTunes not find any album artwork any more, yet it recognises the album & finds all the tracks? This seems to be a constant problem on this forum - anyone have any ideas...? I have iTunes 11 & a desktop intel Mac, OS X 10.7.

I wouldn't be in a hurry to upgrade to 8.2.
Make sure that the *Album Artist* and Artist of your album matches up with what's in the iTunes Store EXCEPT if the artist has an ampersand (&) in it. Then put in everything up until the space before the ampersand. (You're free to edit the info after you've gotten the correctly downloaded artwork.) In some cases you may not get the correct artwork no matter how you match the data.

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