Will Get Album Artwork delete manually imported artwork?

I just imported a ton of art manually and would hate it if Get Album Artwork deleted them. Anyone know?
Also, what happens if you manually import artwork and then iTunes later has it in inventory. Will iTunes replace existing manual imports with iTunes art?

that was my next question as I'm finding some of the iTunes art not as good as others, and I have found better than they have. Since in these circumstances, since iTunes does have art assoc with my album, I'm wonding if overwriting iTunes will cause iTunes to overwrite me

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I have been manually adding artwork to my songs. When I click the Show Artwork check box, it doesn't show the cover art. For example some greatest hits albums have different cover art per track. ITUNES picks one of the cover art and shows it for the entire album grouping.
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Hello all.
I've just bought an iPod Classic and transferred all my albums (600 or so) from my old Creative Zen. The iPod picked up about half the album sleeves. On the Creative, I also had one genre, "music" and the iPod has created about a million genres (well, 66). It's also mixed up some compilations.
So, no probs: I work out what Ctrl I does and the album artist things then try to change thge genres / import album sleeves / tidy up compilations.
However: nothing happens. The best I can say is that it's like it's read only, and won't let me do anything. Any ideas?
Just so you know: I'm doing this on the PC in iTunes with the iPod disconnected.
I have highlighted all the tracks on an album to change genre, ticked the box, tried adding "album artist" but as soon as I press ok, nothing happens.
With the album sleeves, I downloaded an image from Amazon, highlighted all the tracks and pressed Ctrl I, then dragged the image into the relevant box. The image appears in the box, but when I press OK nothing happens.
I also tried dragging the image to the box in the iTunes screen where there's a musical note. I get the "no entry" sign on the cursor saying it's not allowed.
I downloaded the software from the Apple site.

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1. <<Are they are on the iPod only or also in the main iTunes library?>>
They're in both. I imported all the files from the old Creative into iTunes and then onto the iPod.
2. <<right-click on it and select Show in Windows Explorer>>
Nothing happens! Right click, Show in Windows, nothing doing. However, the Neil Young tracks referred previously bring up an error message about track being missing when I try and get properties. Even though they're the ones I can find . . ("The song could not be used because the original file cannot be found")
3. <<Chances are they've been imported via another account>>
Sorry - all through one laptop. It's brand new, as well.
4. <<look in the iTunes Music folder again but instead of looking for an artist folder, find the "Compilations" folder>>
You're probably ahead of me by now - there is no compilations folder. I went through all the folders. There's only on album for each artist despite there being several for most in the library. I thought this could be it but then Incubus had managed to accumulate two.
5. As to your other question, if you can not change anything in the ID3 tags for the songs (including the Compilation tag above), likely it is just a problems with an incompatible ID3 version being used.
Ha! Thought this might the answer. Some of the tracks were originally on an earlier Creative Zen so were loaded on software that's three or four years old.
I opened the iTunes library and viewed as a list, Ctrl A to select all, Advanced, Convert Id3 tags . . .and got "the songs may be right protected or the wrong type". <Sigh>.
It will apparently let me convert them all to AAC but I don't know what that will do . . .
Do you think it's worth deleting all the files and starting again?
I actually imported all the albums off a remote hard disk - I backed up the Creative regularly - though that should be the same as all the files being on the C drive I would have thought.
However, all the albums were done the same way - I backed up the Creative then transferred the whole lot so it should either all work or all not work.
I could either import them directly from the old Creative MP3 (it still works, it's just attached to an electronic drum kit) or can I convert them as I import them from the remote hard disk?

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Hi there, I'm scanning the artwork that comes from my CDs to add them to the songs. I'm noticing that when I do it, the song file size grows. Which sounds logical. At the same time I understand that what happens to the song-files when the artworks are downloaded automatically from the iTS is different (I'm not sure here, I'm just guessing): The songs don't really grow in size as the artwork doesn't really go into them. What I understand is that they are stored somewhere else and the songs just refer to them.
If this is true, well, I see an obvious advantage, the songs stay the same size and probably it's faster to play them and display their artworks.
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I artwork already is embedded in the song files, iTunes won't get artwork from the iTunes store.
You could delete all artwork and then get the ones from the iTunes Store, but this is a bit tricky. If the artist or album isn't available at the Store, no artwork is downloaded. So you end with nothing for those albums.
I would consider getting assistance from a script to save the existing artwork first.
The first one which came in mind is Save Album Art to Album Folder.
It saves the artwork from the selected tracks to the folder where the song file resides or to a chosen folder. But it saves the artwork of all tracks, not just the album.
Another, more attractive option is to save the artwork using Export Artwork to iPhoto.
This one has an option to save only one piece of artwork of an album.
After you saved the artwork, select all tracks (Command-A) and 'Get Info' (Command-I). Check the checkbox at 'Artwork' and click OK.
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After a while, iTunes will have downloaded the artwork for (hopefully) most albums. You then can add missing ones from your iPhoto library.
Which method you choose, it will take a lot of time depending on the size of your library.
Ideal would be a script that saves the artwork, deletes it from the song file, requests the Store for artwork, deletes the saved artwork if artwork is downloaded or adds the saved artwork if no artwork is downloaded.
However, such a script does not exist (yet) as far as I know.
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You must be using iTunes 7.0.x
You must have an iTunes Store account.
The song, artist and album names must exactly match the ones at the iTunes Store, although recent experiences showed to me that minor mismatches still will download the correct artwork.
M
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I just bought a CD and I imported it into I-tunes and was unable to get album art work? This is a brand new CD. Any suggestions?

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Go online and find a picture of the CD. (Amazon usually works well for this)
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Can I merge or combine 2 "album artwork" folders? I have saved music onto an external server from 2 computers but the artwork that I have manually imported remains in the default folder in the music/itunes/"album artwork" folder on their respective PCs.
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if you can't find the album covers you want from iTunes you can get them from various other sources. I find this site is a good source of artwork: CD/Album Cover Art Search from SlothRadio.
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If you have a scanner you can create your own artwork files by scanning the CD cover itself, this is particularly useful when you are dealing with rare recordings.

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