Unusual iTunes 7 user

Question

I am posting this since I appear to be in the very SMALL minority of users that like iTunes 7. Also, I am not having near the problems that many are according to the posts.
I am using an HP PC with Windows XP Home. Currently, My library is about 100gb with 3+ of that being videos/movies. Really, I only have one movie, since I do not have a video iPod (yet). I just wanted to see how the movie thing worked.
I have to say that the new features in 7 are all ones that I had hoped would show up sometime. In particular, I LOVE being able to look at my collection via artwork. That makes my music so much easier to browse.
And the artwork retrieval has worked well for me. Perfect? No. But it has done fine. I have figured the work around for getting artwork in fairly easiy. Now, I will be thrilled when it just works, but for now, it is just so nice to be able to get artwork.
I used many of the "automated" 3rd party programs to help get artwork, and while they seemed fine, now that I can get better quality artwork I am much happier.
In fact, I am now going back and replacing "grainy" or low res artwork with iTunes cover art.
I guess my expectations were not very high with this realease. I tend to want to give Apple the benefit of the doubt. While 7 is not perfect, the problems I have had do not qualify for posting. The benefits far outwiegh my small issues.
What I really want now is a 16:9 video iPod! Now that would make me REALLY happy.
Thanks for listening and I look forward to all the responses telling me how crazy I am for liking iTunes 7!
Chris
HP   Windows XP   100gb library on external firewire drive.

Answer 1

Another tip I found on my own. Downloading artwork to the ipod. If you have put a cd in your music library and downloaded the artwork but the artwork is not showing up on your iPod after you copy the song file over, try this.
Have your iPod connected and click on the triangle next to the iPod's name so that iTunes shows all of the folders (music, movies, tv shows, etc.) below it. If you haven't already, go ahead and copy or sync the new song(s) to the iPod.
Just so people don't get lost, "iTunes music folder" means the music folder at the top of the window on the left side of iTunes, "iPod music folder" means the music folder directly under the iPod bar with the iPod's name.
Now:
1) Click on the iTunes music folder and find the song that already has the artwork attached to it.
2) Right click the song and select "get info".
3) Click on the "artwork" tab.
4) Click on the image in the window to highlight it.
5) Right click the image and select "copy".
6) Go ahead and click "cancel" to close the window.
7) Go to the iPod music folder and find the song on your iPod.
8) Click on the song to select it and then right click it to display menu.
9) Select "get info".
10) Select the "artwork" tab.
11) Click the empty image window to highlight it.
12) Right click and select "paste".
13) Click the "ok" button and now the image should show on your iPod.
If you want to use the same image for all of the songs on the same cd, highlight all of the songs, right click, check the box next to the artwork window and paste the image to the window.
Hope this works for you.
  Windows XP