Possible to use album art as desktop?

Is is possible to have ITunes display the album artwork for the current song as the desktop pattern. A utility or addition to ITunes to do this would be a nice feature.
- Elrond

I go to Amazon (or any other place that has the album cover I want) and look up the album. Right mouse click on the picture and select "set as background"!
I have a rather nice piccie of Tom Waits at the moment!
You might have to do it a couple of times with different sized pictures to get decent quality - but it takes nan-seconds to do! And the possibilities are endless!
MESH Windows XP

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I recently upgraded my iPod Touch G4 with IOS 5. However, I cannot use album arts to select my songs any more. Every time I try to do it, the screen will freeze and jump back to the normal Apps screen. What can be possibly wrong?

Does anyone has the same issue after IOS 5 upgrade?

I have experienced the same issue with my 32gb 4g touch since upgrading to IOS 5.
The problem seems to be caused by very large album art graphics. When the album art screen freezes and the ipod jumps back to the apps screen the ipod app is actually crashing (presumably caused by a memory issue).
The short term solution I found is to simply reduce the size of the album art graphics files used (via itunes). Since I have reduced the file sizes of my album art the ipod app has not crashed.
There does still seem to be an issue with the smoothness of the cover flow app which is much more laggy and jerky since the ios5 upgrade - this was reported during beta testing so hopefully apple will address this issue.

Flashing Album Art on Desktop

I have just encountered a perplexing problem. In another application (PhotoStudio) today I was examining various keyboard shortcuts. iTunes was open. Apparently, one of those shortcuts enables an iTunes feature that searches for the current track and floats any associated album artwork on the desktop. It goes away only when iTunes has been quit.
But even when it's not open, the desktop (Finder?) continues to look for artwork. The desktop area where the artwork would be places flashes very briefly -- maybe .25 second -- every 5 seconds.
Any suggestions?

Thank you for your response, but the issue is not so simple. Album art is embeded for sure. I've edited all the tags properly. I do know smth about it, believe me)) And the album art IS displayed, BUT only if I open Music+Videos or Nokia Music apps and within these apps, not on the desktop. But I want the album art to be displayed ALSO on the desktop (+lock screen, if possible) while music is playing in backgroud mode. It is just the issue of design, and I wonder if I could somehow contact developers to fix this. I think, this would only popularize Windows Phone and would make the desktop more bright and dinamic.
To make it clear I attach two screenshots.
You can see the same track playing. Album art is displayed in Music+Videos app
BUT it is not displayed on the desktop (only artist name on the grey backgroud; I've circled it red)
So I want album art to be displayed on the desktop TOO. Is it clear now?
Thanks in advance
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Is it possible to associate album art to playlist and not the album?

I've created some US versions of Beatle albums with a playlist. Is it possible to assign US album artwork to the playlist while not affecting the UK album art associated with the song?

No.
tt2

Find and using album art

I took the album art off of Amazon to put in iTunes for music that the iTunes store doesn't sell. All that Amazon art is blurry. Is there a higher res album art source? Is there a better source for album art, more options?
Some of the albums create a separate album cover for each song on a album rather than each album so in "cover flow" each song is listed separately. Do you know what causes that?

I use art from Amazon. It can be hit or miss getting something high res, but most of what I've gotten has been fine. Did you click on the smaller image and let it open a larger image in another window? Be sure to copy the larger one.
On the multiple covers issue...make sure your tags are correct on the songs. I recommend you retype the name of the album and repaste it in the appropriate field on the songs. Sometimes empty spaces can be hiding in there and cause problems. Also...check and see if some tracks have an album artist while others do not. Is the album a compilation? If so, mark it as one. It can also depend on the what view you're using in iTunes. Which view are you set on?

Refresh iTunes album art fails in DM6

Hi,
I'm trying to import iTunes album art into Desktop Manager 6 and about halfway through, the process fails. I've checked the log files and found this info that might be relevant:
22:34:02.020|ERROR|9|Rim.Desktop.Media|19038|Beginning Album Art caching process...
22:34:19.408|ERROR|9|Rim.Desktop.Media|19044|Attempting to parse iTunes version: 9.2.1.5
22:38:53.920|ERROR|9|Rim.Desktop.Media|18005|EXCEPTION: System.OutOfMemoryException -- MESSAGE: Out of memory. -- STACK: at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename, Boolean useEmbeddedColorManagement){CRLF} at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename){CRLF} at Rim.Media.Images.ImageUtilities.GetThumbnail(IFilePath path, Int32 width, Int32 height){CRLF} at Rim.Media.Images.ImageUtilities.GetThumbnail(IFilePath path, Int32 width, Int32 height, Boolean useOriginalSize, Boolean useOriginalBitDepth){CRLF} at Rim.Media.Images.ImageUtilities.GetScaledImage(IFilePath filePath, Int32 width, Int32 height){CRLF} at Rim.Media.Source.iTunes.ITunesArtCacheWorker.OnDoWork(){CRLF} at Rim.Desktop.Services.Tasks.Task.RunOneOperation()
22:38:53.921|ERROR|9|Rim.Desktop.Media|18005|EXCEPTION: System.OutOfMemoryException -- MESSAGE: Out of memory. -- STACK: at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename, Boolean useEmbeddedColorManagement){CRLF} at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename){CRLF} at Rim.Media.Images.ImageUtilities.GetThumbnail(IFilePath path, Int32 width, Int32 height){CRLF} at Rim.Media.Images.ImageUtilities.GetThumbnail(IFilePath path, Int32 width, Int32 height, Boolean useOriginalSize, Boolean useOriginalBitDepth){CRLF} at Rim.Media.Images.ImageUtilities.GetScaledImage(IFilePath filePath, Int32 width, Int32 height){CRLF} at Rim.Media.Source.iTunes.ITunesArtCacheWorker.OnDoWork(){CRLF} at Rim.Desktop.Services.Tasks.Task.RunOneOperation()
22:38:53.930|INFO |9|Rim.Desktop.Media|0|TASK: [Art Cache Worker], STATE: Progressing, TRANSITION: none, OPERATION: Void OnDoWork(), ERROR: System.OutOfMemoryException: Out of memory.
at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename, Boolean useEmbeddedColorManagement)
at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename)
at Rim.Media.Images.ImageUtilities.GetThumbnail(IFilePath path, Int32 width, Int32 height)
at Rim.Media.Images.ImageUtilities.GetThumbnail(IFilePath path, Int32 width, Int32 height, Boolean useOriginalSize, Boolean useOriginalBitDepth)
at Rim.Media.Images.ImageUtilities.GetScaledImage(IFilePath filePath, Int32 width, Int32 height)
at Rim.Media.Source.iTunes.ITunesArtCacheWorker.OnDoWork()
at Rim.Desktop.Services.Tasks.Task.RunOneOperation()
22:38:53.930|INFO |9|Rim.Desktop.Media|0|TASK: [Art Cache Worker], STATE: Failed, TRANSITION: none, OPERATION: none, DURATION: 291933
The log points to a possibly corrupted album art image, but it would be desirable if the Desktop manager could simply ignore that exception and resume the import. Has anybody else encountered this problem?

After having no itunes media sync issues with my 238 albums, other than album art for "Greatest Hits" albums getting mixed up, i have found that DM 6 gets the album art correct, but will not sync approximately 238 of 1500 files. Who knows how to fix this one. I am through with RIM, Blackberry and DM. I don't understand why they can't get this stuff right.

HT3798 On iPod 160gb - how can I view album art full screen like in the menu half screen or photo slideshows?

I remember responding to an apple customer satisfaction survey in 2009, when I purchased my iPod Classic. I suggested it should be possible to have album art viewed in full screen like in photo slideshows or how album art is presented on half the screen when the menu is navigated to the 'music' list. Does anyone know if apple has created an iPod Classic software update which includes this glaring omission?

The progress bar is not the iPod disconnecting from the PC but rather the iPod reading in the library database from it's hard drive. It's safe to disconnect when told to.
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Cover flow into album art and how to control iTunes from another app.

Hi all 2 areas of concen, one is coverflow/ album art and the other is itunes controller:
I have searched but cannot find the answer to this:
1) I have some songs with album info already, and I used iTunes to get the album art for coverflow etc. ... some songs from the same album did not have the album category filled in, I go back and fill it in: now how do I get iTunes to recognize the album art so it shows up for the newly corrected songs?
2) In coverflow, iTunes picked the wrong album cover, can I manually fix it/pick the right one?
3) will coverflow only show album art for those albums recognized by iTunes, or will it use album art that I get from other sources and add manually? And what will show up in my ipod?
and lastly
4), is there anyway to control iTunes without switching apps (if I am working in Word or safari and want to skip a song, etc)...is there an overlay controller?
TIA
Gina
new macbook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Copy the entire folder from one drive to the other, change the path that iTunes is using to access the library.

Is it possible to use xml publisher with xml document as data source ?

I have an application that have to publish document from xml document that are not part a oracle 10g database but will be stored into Oracle Berkeley XML database insteed. Is it possible to use server and/or desktop to publish these documents ?
I test the desktop edition using the source xml document but it render no data when the template is executed (vizualization)
I installed the server edition and i'm not able to declare xml document as a data source
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A fact is that XML Publisher server edition is not very adapted to an XML file datasource. In order to use it, you should use an HTTP datasource, with the URL of your XML document (that you should place on a web server...). The problem is that this URL is fixed and point always on the same reference...so XML Publisher server edition is not very good for that use.
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How do I use album artowrk as a screen saver for atv gen2?

I can't seem to find a way to get my album artwork to display as a screen saver for my apple tv. I can get my pics from iphoto with no problem.

Welcome to the Apple Community.
You'll need to create an album of your music artwork in iPhoto, the Apple TV doesn't have the facility to use album art in a screensaver.

Album art only shows up as black squares

Ever since the last iTunes update I've been unable to use album art. I usually just Google the album cover and copy + paste it into iTunes, which has worked fine for years. But all of a sudden when I try to paste the image all I get is a black square. Anyone else have the same issue? What can I do?

It was a bug in the 10.4.0.80 build which has been fixed in 10.4.1.10. Update to the latest version and all should be well, although you will still need to repair any of the black/blank images you have now.
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I am unable to update my album art since I commenced using match (and after upgrading to Yosemite). How can I 'unembed' old cover art and replace?

I am unable to update my album art on my iMac since I started using Match (and after upgrading to Yosemite 10.10.3). A message advises that it's not possible to removed old artwork if it's embedded. How can I 'unembed' old cover art and replace?

Normally artwork recovered with iTunes is stored as a separate artwork file and iTunes refers to that file to display artwork when you click on a track. However, if you then copy the file to another player the artwork file is left behind and the track will not display the artwork on the other player. To get around this it is possible to embed the artwork in the music file itself so it always travels with the file. Artwork can be embedded by you or files from third party sources may arrive with embedded artwork. iTunes apparently now won't replace artwork for such files. You can accomplish this by completely deleting artwork for a file or set of files in Get Info, then getting iTunes to fetch artwork which will then be set as a reference file rather than being embedded.
I use an old iTunes so unless you are using an ancient iTunes it won't help for me to give you great details. To erase artwork I simply get info on a series of files and check the box next to the artwork box without adding any artwork and close. To do it for single file I Get Info, go to the artwork display tab and click delete. Here's a Windows reference for a newer iTunes (but the "old Get Info" reference is for early iTunes 12 and no longer works with newer):I cannot delete embedded album artwork in iTunes 12

Wrong album art when using PC library

I have a new iPad 2. I also have iTunes running on a PC.
On the PC, all of the album art is correct, but when I connect over Wi-Fi to my iTunes library on the PC from my iPad using the Music app, some of the albums have the wrong art work. Most are correct but some albums (which works out to quite a few) show the art work to other albums in my library.
Also, when I connect to my iCloud library from the iPad, all of the albums have the correct artwork. So, the problem only occurs when I connect to my PC's library from the iPad.
Any ideas how to fix it?
Is there a way to force the Music app to forget what it thinks it knows about my PC library so that it'll have to start from scratch?
I'm using iTunes Match on both the PC and the iPad.
I've searched the web and found some other people complaining of the same thing but always with different scenarios and the rare times a solution is suggested it doesn't seem to apply to my scenario.
iTunes v.10.5.1.42, on PC (Win 7, x64)
iPad v.5.0.1

I think I just figured out one way of forcing the Music app to start over with the library. Log into a different account, reboot, and start the Music app. Then log back into the correct account, reboot again, start the Music app, and connect to the PC library. It should start from scratch.
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The album art appears to be correct now.

My iPod 4G, after reset and iOS 6 install, now has only some album art after syncing music. Even music directly downloaded from iTunes is missing album art. (I'm using iTunes 11.0.1 on Windows Vista)

My iPod 4G, after a reset and iOS6 install, after I recopied and synced music, is missing most album art. Even songs directly downloaded from iTunes are missing album art. I'm using iTunes 11.0.1 on Windows Vista. My iPod isn't full. Whenever I go to "On This iPod" and add album art and sync, nothing happens. Please help :/

Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all music and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

Thanks all for the great advice. Another question. If I use Entourage on my desktop Mac to access an email address I use on there, is it possible to be able to access my email on that same email address on my iPad either with or without Entourage?

Thanks all for the great advice. Another question. If I use Entourage on my Mac desktop to access my mail using an email address I have on there, is it possible to access my emails on that same email address on my iPad, either with or without using Entourage. Is there an Entourage app, or something I could use? Thanks...

Simply add the email account to Mail, no need for Entourage.
One word of warning, though, iPads tend to become community property (meaning anyone who uses your iPad can access your email). That is why I have zero email accounts on my iPad.
I use Entourage on my desktop as well, so going back and forth between Entourage and Mail (whether on your iPad or iPhone) is no problem.

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