Zoomed Album Art

Anybody else miss the ability to see a larger version of the album art with the new nano?
With previous iPods you could click the center button on a track and cycle through the volume, scrubber, album art, lyrics and ratings. The nano g3 cycles through volume, scrubber, ratings, shuffle, and lyrics. All show the full track layout except the lyrics which are displayed full-screen. It'd be nice to be able to see the album art full-screen as part of the cycle, unfortunately it's not the way they implemented it. It'd also be nice if there was more than one image in the album art, that you could cycle through all the images.
Does anyone else think it'd be useful to see larger album art in the cycle?

It's the first thing I tried to do in the new software of the nano and Classic. I couldn't believe that feature was gone. Especially when the album as shown in the main ID screen is no longer full face view but 'skewed' as in AppleTV. How do we get a plain large album cover image?

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Zen Vision M problem, album art is not showing

I am embedding the album art into the ID3v2 tags, as i assumed that it would show up when browsing my albums. But the art is not showing up and i have no idea why.
I had another problem which seems that my Zen is reading ID3v tags, a lot of my music was not being recognised, even with v2 tags, and was only recognised when i filled in the v tags also. Does anyone have suggestions as to whats going on here? It is a Zen Vision M 30gb, with the latest firmware, and i use Tag & Rename to edit tags and add the art, Im also on Vista if that changes anything.
Thanks in advance.Message Edited by Ninjabachelor on 0-28-20070:20 PM

Hi Boxy !
For now, you can't zoom in the Album Art, but it can be a new feature on a future firmware. To hack it somehow, you have to mess around the system folder which is inaccessible...
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Album art mixed up on Ipod 5G

Hello,
I have a 5g ipod and recently finished riping over 200 CD's to Itunes. I added album art to every song on every disk . My Ipod is displaying the album art but it is displaying the wrong art on many songs. Sometimes it shows one art image on the small version next to the song info and then when you click through to the full screen version you get yet another image. All these songs art looks fine when viewed in Itunes on my PC. I spent tons of time getting these on there and now at least 40% are crap on my ipod. Anyone else have this problem?

. My Ipod is displaying the album art but it is displaying the wrong art on many songs. Sometimes it shows one art image on the small version next to the song info and then when you click through to the full screen version you get yet another image.
You do know you can have more than 1 piece of art for each song?
Go to the album anbd open the first song.
Get INfo and Artwork.
There is a little slider under the artwork which zooms in/out. Move it to see if there is more than 1 cover. If so, just select it and hit delete.
Also, when putting artwork in, find it and copy it to the clipboard, select the ablum, make sure the Album Artorwork box (bottom left of iTunes) displays Selected Song, then paste into this box. Easier than doing it one at a time for same album.

Zen Vision:M and Album Art

So I know it has album art and I should be happy about, and I am. But I wish I could zoom in! Has anyone found a way, or is there a hack! Please do tell?

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Albumart.py - displays mpd album art

I love ncmpcpp but, sadly, it does not display all the beautiful album art I've collected. So I wrote this little Python script (75 lines) that does just that.
Here's a demo: http://a.pomf.se/wlozbq.mp4
It monitors mpd and searches for an image in the directory of the currently playing file, but you have to tell it mpd's music directory (MUSICDIR). You set PATTERN as how your album art is named, in globbing format. In my case that's Folder.* for Folder.jpg or Folder.png
It also needs a default image (DEFAULTIMG) in case it doesn't find any album art.
It then displays that image and scales it to the window size. The image proportions are kept, so it might fill some space with a background color that you can set (BGCOLOR).
Close the window to quit.
It requires python-mpd2 from the AUR, python-pillow and tk. I'm not an enterprise programmer so forgive me if the code is shitty. In any case, it's simple and light.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Requires python-mpd2, python-pillow, tk
from tkinter import Tk, Frame, Label
from PIL import ImageTk, Image
from threading import Thread
import mpd, sys
import glob, re
# Required variables
MUSICDIR = "/home/rolf/Music/"
PATTERN = "Folder.*"
DEFAULTIMG = "/home/rolf/.icons/defaultimg.png"
BGCOLOR = "#1c1c1c"
# Frame class that draws an image and zooms it to the window size
class ImageFrame(Frame):
def __init__(self, master, imgPath, *pargs):
Frame.__init__(self, master, *pargs)
self.img = Image.open(imgPath)
self.origImg = self.img.copy()
self.bgImg = ImageTk.PhotoImage(self.img)
self.bg = Label(self, image=self.bgImg, background=BGCOLOR)
self.bg.pack(fill="both", expand="yes")
self.bg.bind('<Configure>', self._resize_image)
def _resize_image(self, event):
s = min(event.width, event.height)
self.img = self.origImg.resize((s, s), Image.ANTIALIAS)
self.bgImg = ImageTk.PhotoImage(self.img)
self.bg.configure(image=self.bgImg)
def change_image(self, imgPath):
self.img = Image.open(imgPath)
self.origImg = self.img.copy()
self.bg.event_generate('<Configure>', width=self.winfo_width(), height=self.winfo_height())
# Connect with mpd server
try:
client = mpd.MPDClient()
client.connect("localhost", 6600)
except(mpd.ConnectionError):
print("Could not connect to MPD. Exiting.")
sys.exit(1)
# Function to look for albumart according to PATTERN in MUSICDIR/<song's directory>/
def get_albumart(song):
albumArt = DEFAULTIMG
if(song != "STOPPED"):
aaDir = re.sub(r"[^/]*$", "", song["file"])
for albumArt in glob.glob(MUSICDIR + aaDir + PATTERN):
break
return(albumArt)
# The window
root = Tk()
root.title("album art")
imgFrame = ImageFrame(root, get_albumart(client.currentsong()))
imgFrame.pack(fill="both", expand="yes")
# Function that monitors mpd for changes and if so, makes the ImageFrame redraw
def poll():
currentSong = client.currentsong()
while True:
client.idle("player")
previousSong = currentSong
currentSong = client.currentsong()
if(client.status()["state"] == "stop"):
currentSong = "STOPPED"
if(previousSong != currentSong):
imgFrame.change_image(get_albumart(currentSong))
# Start shit up
Thread(target=poll, daemon=True).start()
root.mainloop()
Last edited by doggone (Yesterday 13:48:34)

Since that simple script of r6 was so helpful for me, I thought it only fair for me to provide my tweak to it.
Mods:
* Fetched from albumart.org
* Uses directory path for search information
* downloads larger image instead of thumbnail
* works with find -exec {} to auto populate all directories
Here is a link to my simple write up
I just run the following in the root of my music directory
find . -type d -exec ./get_coverart {} \;
And a copy of the script
#!/bin/bash -e
# get_coverart.sh
# This simple script will fetch the cover art for the album information provided on the command line.
# It will then download that cover image, and place it into the child directory.
# The term "album information" is really the relative path of the final directory.
# get_coverart <relative-path>
# get_coverart Tonic/Lemon Parade
# get_coverart Tonic/Lemon\ Parade
# get_coverart Tonic/Lemon_Parade
# To auto-populate all directories in the current directory, run the following command
# find . -type d -exec ./get_coverart "{}" \;
dpath="$1"
encoded="$(perl -MURI::Escape -e 'print uri_escape($ARGV[0]);' "$dpath")"
# Skip already processed ones
if [ -f "$dpath/cover.jpg" ]
then
echo "$dpath/cover.jpg already exists"
exit
fi
echo ""
echo "Searching for: [$1]"
url="http://www.albumart.org/index.php?srchkey=$encoded&itempage=1&newsearch=1&searchindex=Music"
echo "Searching ... [$url]"
coverurl=`wget -qO - $url | xmllint --html --xpath 'string(//a[@title="View larger image" and starts-with(@href, "http://ecx.images-amazon")]/@href)' - 2>/dev/null`
echo "Cover URL: [$coverurl]"
wget "$coverurl" -O "$dpath/cover.jpg"
Last edited by Skidd (2011-03-10 03:53:35)

ITunes 10.0.7.21 shows a white box instead of artwork for most of my albums. Many of these are albums I purchased on itunes. Also when I hit get album art it deleted the artwork it already had form many albums and says it cant find it.

OS is Windows 7
I updated iTunes the other day and I decided to run "get album art" and instead of finding artwork, it made some of the artwork I already had show up as white squares, or disapear entirely. The ones that are white squares show up under the get info, but not in itunes. I did click in view for show al artwork, no luck. Many of these albums I bought from iTunes. The ones that the artwork was deleted some albums I can buy on iTunes, but already owned, and iTunes found the artwork before, but now cannot. Some are albums that I spent many hours finding and adding the artwork myself. I am very frustrated. I cannot find the time to manually install artwork for thousands of songs.
My work computer is Windows 8, so I really don't want to hear windows vs OSX argument. My company won't switch to mac because you like it better, so I just need a solution to my issue. iTunes it has always worked better for me on my work PC than my macBook, I dont know why, but I don't take two laptops with me when I travel so I have my iTunes library on the PC that has to come with me. This is the first time an update has screwed things up for me.

Well my first guess was wrong. The line that failed is the one that writes out the image to disk. I've not revisited the code for that script for ages, but it seems I did add in an extra test for missing files a little while later, then forgot to upload the change. I can reproduce the error message if I deliberately rename a file to confuse iTunes so that seems the most likely reason for your problem with the script. I've uploaded a new build of CreateFolderArt which should work better.
See FindTracks for a tool to repair broken links. You should probably get that issue fixed first.
I know what SPSS stands for but that is all I know about it.
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How can I display all album art of my library in iTunes

All my music tracks in my library contain the respective album art within their ID3-tags and it is perfectly displayed in the lower left corner window when I select or play a track.
What I really would like to do is to browse through my library using the album art, not the text-based endless lists (title, album, interpret, genre etc.), then click on a cover, see the tracks and select one.
Is there a feature in iTunes already that can do that or a plug-in somewhere in the market ? (I do not need a tool that collects album art like eyejamz, but a tool to display the art I already have)
Thanks a lot for any feedback
bigfoot9
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Bakergirl,
You can use iTunes to remove the beginning or end of a song (or both) by setting the Start and Stop times.
But to remove a section from the middle and keep the rest, you will need an audio editor such as Audacity.

How can I quickly get the same album art for all tracks on an album without manually doing them one at a time?

I am having trouble with album art linked to each track. My library is ripped from my own cd's and ITunes only provides some of the artwork from a find artwork search. The rest must be found and added one at a time manually from web. This process is tedious and time consuming for me. Is there a file in iTunes related to each album that I can just drop the art once and it shows up linked to all the tracks from that album when they play? I've tried selecting all songs from an album and dragging the artwork to the artwork window once in hopes of all tracks getting the artwork at the same time with no luck. Any advice for this paltry artwork dilemma would be appreciated. If Cassidy & Greene still owned this ******* child of SoundJam I know I would not be having this problem! HaHa...Thanks for any advice/help with this problem.

Thx 4 quick reply alexbird. Your method will work and after a little experimenting so will this: Just go to the album art view option and highlight the album you want artwork for. Drag the artwork from your album art web search page to bottom left hand album art window in iTunes and just drop it there. A small progress window then appears showing each album track adopting the dropped artwork one by one. It only takes 10-15 seconds for all of the tracks on your album to adopt the new artwork. I then went back and removed unwanted artwork(from the albums that had it) track by track from the get info menu. This goes pretty quick as you just pick track>get info>artwork>highlight art>delete>ok for each track.
This drag/drop to the album art view page has been the simplest and most effective way I have discovered to manually import album artwork into iTunes so far. Hope this helps someone else out there. Any other methods or suggestions to do this task added to this thread will be duly noted. Thx... Oh, I am currently using iTunes 10.5.1

After i downloaded IOS5 most of my album art on my iPod touch is missing, but its still on my computer.

some of the album art for the songs i recently downloaded from itunes is there, but almost everything i've downloaded from itunes in the past has no album art. how do i get it back?

Another thing to try: uncheck the "Sync Music" checkbox in your iPod pane in iTunes, sync and allow iTunes to remove the tracks, then rechec the "Sync Music" checkbox and resync. That fixed the problem with missing and incorrect album artwork on my iPad with iOS 5.
Regards.

A late majority of the album art on my iPod Touch is mixed up.

I put a CD in my laptop to import it to iTunes. I unplugged my iPod and all the album art in my music (all of which I had purchased on iTunes) was mixed up. Say, a Lady Gaga song still played Lady Gaga but the album art was one of my Katy Perry songs. I've tried restoring all settings but it's still messed up. I need help, please.

You are not alone. 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/delete all music and resync
To delete all music go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage>Music>Tap edit in upper right and then tap the minus sign by All Music
- 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: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

Album art thats om my itunes wont show on my iphone 5

Certain album art that appears on my itunes will not show on my iphone no matter how many times I sync it.
Does anyone else have this issue? Is there a solution to this?

Does it have album artwork On itunes
itunes>right click on a song>get info,first click artwork if thats ok then click options and check if everything is ok

Why is my album art downloading to the wrong music?

When I am syncing my iPhone, I am getting an error (-54) at times. I am also seeing the wrong album art downloading with the incorrect music. Whenever I use a song for my alarm, I see music that I do not have checked to be on my phone showing up and it always has the wrong album art. Please advise. Thank you so much!

The only way I was able to get the album art correct was to hook my iPod up to my laptop and then go into iPod Preferences and check the box that says hide Album art. I then updated my iPod and all my album art was wiped off my iPod. The next step is to go back into preferences for the iPod and enable album art again and the next time I updated...BINGO, all my artwork was put back correctly. It took a little work but I'm happy with it!

Unable to optimize album art on my iPod and then display the art on my iPod

When I optimize album art it gives me an error message "unknown error (-50)"
I would like to fix that. Any pointers?

get the order number from itunes account "Purchase History" & then send a mail to itunes store from following website. www.apple.com/support/itunes/ They will provide you exception to redownload because its Apple's problem

1 CD, compilation CD, 16 artists, 16 album art displays (of same picture)

I have a CD of 16 songs, a "best of" CD, and when I import it to iTunes, everything is fine save for the album artwork. When I put iTunes in album art view, I see 16 entries. Now I have seen this before on other CDs where I would just make sure the title is consistent, the artist name is consistent (in this case, I am using "Various Artists" and then putting the individual name in Album Artist"). I also checked "Compliation" in the "info" banner. I re-imported the CD using iTunes thinking that would make a difference but it hasn't.
This is the only CD in my collection I have not been able to fix. Other fixes, as I have tried above, have worked for several similar problematic listings.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Rob - When you selected "Compilation" - did you have all of the tracks selected? If so, when you checked the Compilation box, did you make sure it said "YES"?
The Multiple Item Information pane is a little tricksy - checking the box doesn't necessarily select anything - what it does is tell iTunes to change the information. For example, you want to delete all album art - you would do this by checking the tickbox next to the Artwork box and closing the Info pane. That will tell iTunes to update each of the Song Files and delete all applied artwork. Same thing with Compliation - just ticking the box without changing the selection may result in the opposite of what you intended.
Hope this helps,
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Compilation artwork instead of original album art

I've found the "Get Artwork" feature on the new iTunes (7) to be pathetic. I say this because while I was trying to get artwork for a song (in this case a song from a Kylie Minogue album titled "Kylie") instead of giving me the album from 1988 it gave me artwork for a compliation cd titled somewhere along the lines of "Kylie Minogue Greatest Hits". I've spent hours perfecting my 4,000 song library to the point that every detail of every song (year, track #, artist, etc.) is 100% accurate. The most important part of these songs for me is the album artwork. And I take extreme pride in having the original album art, not just a stupid compilation made just a few years back but the artwork like it was on the original when the music first came out. this is very significant in the case of original albums that are no longer in production. long story short i'm ****** that the "Get Artwork" feature is corrupting my files with incorrect artwork. there should be a feature that let's you decide if you find acceptable compilation artwork in place of the original if apple can't find it. i'd rather have no artwork then a wrong artwork or compilation artwork. Has anyone else had this type of problem before? please respond if so, it would be nice to know i'm not the only one.
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Thanks Léonie. That's definitely an improvement over 2 pictures. I normally prefer the "white mosaic" option, as it uses less ink. I've never had this issue on older versions of iTunes. Any idea why it's printing two pictures and how I could delete one of them in order to utilize the "white mosaic" option? This is what it looks like, straight from iTunes when I hit print. I learned the hard way that if I go in and delete the artwork from every indiviudual song and then hit print, I only get 1 image. But that seems very time consuming and illogical. And thanks again.

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