Painless way to import album art?

I have a big folder of songs, and most of them have album art. When i play them on windows media player it displays the album art but when i import the song into itunes the album art doesnt come with it. I can see the album art if i unhide system files and then manually add it to the song in itunes. Im wondering if there is a way to automatically do this. The only way album is automatically improted is when you buy the song off itunes. I can rip a cd on WMP and it will get the album art but if i rip it on Itunes it doesnt get the album art. Is there a program or an option so that i can get this to work? Thanks in advance!

Try this program: http://www.yvg.com/itunesartimporter.shtml

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I use 'iTunes Art Importer' (Google it) - a nice little program that will search and import album art from Amazon automatically.
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Hi, new here.
So I have an ipod nano 5th gen: 16GB.
I have ~1500 songs on it and have been facing a slew of interesting issues with my album art.
1. I prefer to add songs manually as I tend to want only some of an artist, genre, or similar, and I like the control it gives me. The problem that I've been having is that there is no efficient way to add artwork to the songs / albums on my ipod that I have ripped from CDs, and are already on my ipod. Going through all my songs and seeing if they have art would be tedious and time consuming, and the only better way to do this seems to be deleting songs off of my ipod and re-copying them. Normally, I would just delete all my songs and re-copy them all, and go do something else for half an hour or so, but there are some songs on my ipod that may not even exist on my computer anymore, and I can't get them again. Is there a better way to just synch songs with the ones in my library and update those that have had art added? (The synch button at the bottom of the ipod tab / window doesn't seem to do that.)
2. At one point, I tried manually adding artwork to albums using Wikipedia images / etc, and I know that many people like to put their own artwork for their albums. The problem I had is that adding the artwork directly to the album only updated the firts track, and the rest still had the big note on them. Is there a way to adress this and make it apply the picture to the whole album?
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See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
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I got this from another user, but it works wonders.
Go to Amazon, type in your search term in the Popular Music category. Locate the album you're looking for. Click the album cover image, which usually brings up a higher-resolution image. Right-click, hit Copy. In iTunes, right-click the song, then Get Info > Artwork, and hit Paste. Mission accomplished. You can actually select all the songs in the album and then go to Get Info > Artwork and it will add the artwork to all the songs. I hope this works for you. Good Luck!!

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Had this problem and think I have solved a work round although simple copy and paste we used to have would be so much better to have back - APPLE PLEASE NOTE! - sorry I think that deserves a shout.
I regularly add cd's to my library which don't have artwork on itunes so I search and used to be able to copy the image and paste straight into itunes but not with itunes 11.
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Locate Artwork, right click and "Add image to iPhoto library"
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Thanks for the quick reply Chris.
If I did sort album by year, it wouldn't work on my iPod. As for previously getting artwork with the correct title and then changing it. When adding music to my library, I tag it all first, and then click get album artwork, which always worked fine before. Also, I've done a fresh install of Windows before, reinstalled iTunes and added all my music (tagged with (XX) at the beginning) iTunes would automatically get the artwork. Now it's missing the artwork for 197 albums, so I don't really feel like changing them all manually...I guess I could use an older version of iTunes, but is this likely to be fixed in the future, as I'd rather have an up-to-date version of the programs on my computer.
And I know it's done A-Z, 0-9 for a while now, but I thought while I was posting about this I might aswell ask.
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Oooorrrr, if you're referring to getting an album cover into your iTunes (and eventually into your iPod when adding songs)..Amazon or google as was suggested (you can also click on Images when Googling) click on the album cover, drag and drop into the "Drag Album Artwork Here" space of iTunes. You can probably use the same procedure if you have your own images you'd like to add to each album/song...
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