Best album artwork resolution for iPod touch?

well I think I would go 480 at least, that might even be overkill but that is still a small file. I bet it gets resized anyway before it goes in.

Apple use 1425x1425px themselves for album art, my rule of thumb is jpgs at around 80k are sufficient.

I personally use this to find get missing artwork:

http://www.fixtunes.com/mac/

If you imagine your Touch screen placed on your monitor then you basically want that as a min. resolution..

thx for the link! great program

Personally, I find that 500x500px looks great on my 1920x1200 display AND my iPods, including the touch. This way, the album art looks perfect on both.

I find most of my good-quality artwork at Amazon.com of all places. What they don't have (and it is not much), I find by searching in Google and then by clicking on "images" at the top. Narrow it down further by selecting "Medium" or "Large" in the "Images: Showing" drop-down box. FYI, make sure to get a photo that is a perfect square when possible; it is a personal pet-peeve of mine to be flipping through Cover Flow and seeing misshapen album covers...I replace them immediately.

240X240 looks perfect. No need to go bigger than that. You'd just be wasting vital memory space. I use this little free utility to import my artwork, it works like a charm:

http://www.yvg.com/itunesartimporter.shtml

you mean space on the meta deta or for the actual HDD space? If metadata, I though iTunes automatically resizes it's resolution so it doesn't take the space of anything bigger