Listing tracks/albums with missing art

Is there any sensible way to list out only the songs/albums that are missing album art?
Wading through all of them manually in the "Cover Flow" view is not an option, I've got far to much music for that.
If I could pull out a "missing art" report of some sort I'd atleast have a decent starting point for scanning/downloading covers.
On a related note; Is it possible to "tag" albums you don't want iTunes to process when downloading art? A "Missing arts" view/filter would solve this, i suppose.
(Highlighting all tracks in this view and fetching the art for only those.)
Also; is it possible to exclude tracks I know there won't be any art for?

Please go the following website - http://dougscripts.com/itunes/. Doug's scripts is an invaluable resource for this. Search using managing artwork. You will find a script that will copy all songs w/o artwork to a playlist. It will search you whole library. Not sure if you can exclude some, but why bother. Once you have the songs w/o artwork identified, you can add the artwork, delete songs form the list or delete the whole list.

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Hi, I have a small problem with some of my albums, for one or two random tracks I am unable to add / edit arkwork... if I right click on the track "Get Info", I am given four tabs - Summary, Info, Sorting & Options... usually there is a fith tab for artwork, indeed it is there for the adjacent tracks that have artwork.
I have tried moving my music from my iTunes folder before deleting it & starting afresh with iTunes, but the problem persists.
Can anyone shed any light on this, or what may be causing it?
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When you rip/import your own CD's, you have to manually copy and paste album artwork into each song....although you may already know that. I just thought I'd mention that.....because I had a friend that did not know that. They thought if they copied and pasted on the first song....that it would automatically show up on all songs on that album.

Choosing album art for album with multiple art

I tried looking around for an answer to this to no avail... Let's say I have a single album that contains songs with different artwork. How do I pick which album art I want displayed in Cover Flow/Album Grid? I tried everything, including pasting the album art as the secondary art for every song, and then I tried duplicating a song, putting it first in the album, changing the artwork to what I wanted, changing the album name and changing it back to the original name, then deleting the song. This worked until I restarted iTunes.

You can only have one image as the default image for the album. It is normally the first image of the earliest imported track. When a track has more than one artwork the *Selected Item* artwork box sprouts two black triangles which let you view the alternate images. If you play with the order of the artwork in each track you can make successive tracks cycle through the available images in the *Now Playing* window.
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How do I print a list of albums with all Genres? Skips the classical albums. ?

How do I print a list of all albums and all genres? Itunes skipped Classical albums.

Well, this is not only a way to print a list with all genres but also a list with all type of genre used in your iTunes library.
I found a crazy way, but it works. Export a list of all you music sorted by genre (with genre included as one of the columns) and save all as a text file > File > Library > Export List > Tipe: text file
Open Excel - drag drop text file into excel. [FROM HERE YOU CAN PRINT ALL YOUR MUSIC LIST] - click once in the upper left square before column A and over line 1 and now click twice a little bit before the end of column A (the pointer changes like a cross) to adjust all cell width.
NOW TO MAKE A GENRE LIST
Find the genre column > select the column
copy it and in a new sheet paste only this column in A1 ... Annn cells.
Now select the first cell (A1) and go to Data > Remove Duplicated > (if you wish select "my data has a header")
click OK
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Is there a way to create a report of topics with missing images?

If I move all images in a project to a different directory,
is there a way to print out which topics have missing images?
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How to convert MiniDiscs into iTunes as tracks/albums?

Hi there,
from the earlier days of Sony's MiniDisc era I have a big collection of MiniDics around with all kinds of recordings (CD's, radio takes, interviews etc).
I still have a MD Walkman (Sony MZ-R30) and am using a iMac 27" and a MacBookPro 17" (early 2009) as well as a iPod.
How could I digitize those MD's into iTunes as tracks/albums with the given hardware, and which additional hardware/software is needed (if any?)
I really hope there is a way... Thanks for any hints.
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although a little off topic, this post by Zevoneer should point you in the right direction:
Zevoneer wrote:
One way is to connect your turntable (through the Tape out sockets of your amplifier) to the audio in socket of your computer and record the input. On the computer you'll need audio editing software to capture and edit the resulting long file into individual tracks that can be added to the iTunes Library. There are a number of commercial programs for this (I use Sound Studio for the Mac but there are many other programs. If want to try out the process first you could try the open source program Audacity which has Linux, Mac and Windows versions at this link: Audacity
In addition to the software you'll need RCA to 3.5 mm audio plug cables to connect the Tape Out sockets of your amplifier to the audio inputs of your computer. There's a short guide to recording here: How to record from vinyl and cassette to a computer also from the BBC Copying Vinyl Recordings to CD
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Album artwork missing on iPod, but not in iTunes

I went tto sync up my iPod Touch because a new song by Gorillaz was free to download (it's Do Ya Thing, great song by the way), but afterwards most of my album artwork was missing. Even stranger, only certain albums have it. All of the artwork is on iTunes. I use windows 7 Ultimate. Is there a bug with iTunes, or did I do something wrong?

I get this on my iPod Touch 5th gen all the time. I think it just has to do with the files getting corrupted. Try removing the songs/albums with missing artwork from the iPad and then sync them back to the device from the cloud

Listing tracks from an album with multiple artists as part of one single album

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Complete my album downloads the missing tracks but then does not place it with the existing tracks in iTunes. i have a single song bought sat on its own and an album with a track missing, any ideas?

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http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11504935#11504935
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When importing a cd it splits the album into separate individual tracks instead of 1 album with numerouse tracks - how do I get them all together

When I import a CD from the Apple Mac drive it splits the cd into numerous single tracks in itunes instead of 1 album with all the tracks. How can I get it to import to the one place. I did try importing the same cd on a friends apple mac to see if it did the same thing and it imported the cd as 1 album with all tracks in there so I can't understand why it's separating them all.

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How to change back in one Album:
Mark all titles of that album (shift or cmd click)
Right click and choose "Get info"
Fill in the wanted name in "Album" and "Album Artist*"
Drag&Drop the wanted Album Art to the little window down right in that pane.
iTunes group and sort albums by that two entry's in the info pane. If the CD is not listed in the database but the titels, iTunes split the album to fit the titles to eventually matching albums of the artists.
Cheers - Lupunus
* If you import a compilation, choose "various artits" for the Album Artist field.
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How do I get Itunes to list an album in track order including ignoring featured artists

I recently downloaded Daft Punk's new album after buying it on vinyl. after importing it to itunes, itunes wont list the album in track order. instead it lists the tracks in order per artists. example Daft punk, then Daft punk featuring Pharrel Williams ect...how do i get itunes to understand that they're all the same album and to list them in track order??
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Hi bdm105!
Most likely, this is happening because the Album Artist field is different for each song from Random Access Memories. We have an article about song grouping in iTunes, and it can be found here:
Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1468
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Albums in which all songs don't have the same Album Artist information
iTunes 7 and later includes a new attribute for song files called Album Artist This allows you to assign a primary artist name for an album that many includes songs by several artists. It is important that all songs in the album have the same Album Artist name. To assign an Album Artist, select all the songs in the album and choose Get Infofrom the File menu. Next, type a name in the Album Artist field name such that it will apply to all the selected songs. This field can optionally be left blank if all the songs have the same album name.
The Album Artist field is shown in the above picture, but it is not highlighted. You will also want to make sure the Track Number field contains the correct information for the album, and information on that field can be found here:
Fixing Incorrect Song or Album Listings in iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/ta24677
Thanks for being a part of the Apple Support Communities!
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TS1424 Who do I contact in regards to a faulty album download? Specifically, a duplicate track and a missing one that is available as "album only"

Who do I contact in regards to a faulty album download? Specifically, a duplicate track and a missing one that is available as "album only"

Depending upon what country that you are in you might be able to try 'redownloading' it via the Purchased link under Quick Links on the right-hand side of the iTunes store home page on your computer's iTunes. If you aren't in a country where you can re-download music then try the 'report a problem' link from your purchase history : log into your account on your computer's iTunes via Store > View My Account and you should then see a Purchase History section with a 'see all' link to the right of it ; click on that and you should see a list of your purchases ; find that album and use the 'Report a Problem' link.

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ITunes 12 is making 1 album become several different albums with the same tracks. How do I combine them again?

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How can I get my ipod to list the "album artist" instead of "artist" in the music menu, but still show the artist with the featured artist when a song plays?

For example, I am putting Kanye West's album "808's & Heartbreak" on my ipod. The track "Amazing" features Young Jeezy. So in iTunes, I list the track name as "Amazing", the artist as "Kanye West ft. Young Jeezy", the album artist as "Kanye West", and the album as "808's & Heartbreak". What I want is for my iPod to have a list of album artists instead of artists, so that I can find the song "Amazing" under "Kanye West" instead of "Kanye West ft. Young Jeezy" or "808's & Heartbreak".
And when the song plays, it should say:
Amazing
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I assume this static is present on any track you listen to versus only particular ones?
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