Do we have to find Album art on our own.

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Do we have to find Album art on our own.

When using Windows Media player I put a CD in It checks the ID3 Tags gets all the Songs names and the Album Art and puts it in the corner.

Why doesn't iTunes do this, it gets the names automatically But not the Album Art ***?

So far I've been adding album art per album

And I still Haven't seen a Simple Tutorial Online on How to Drag an Drop 1 Album Cover PIc and have iTunes see it for every Song of that Album, I've had to do this one song at a time.

Posted on Sep 13, 2005 4:21 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 13, 2005 7:05 PM in response to Alex Rubio

Apple will only provide artwork for music you actually buy from them - otherwise they are opening a huge can of worms providing you artwork for a CD of your own.

I use Amazon.com, and drag and drop the album artwork from there to provide the artwork for my iTunes.

To update a whole album at a time, simply shift click all tracks of that album, then drag the artwork into iTunes - it updates all tracks with the album artwork.

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Answer 2

starry

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Sep 14, 2005 12:06 AM in response to Alex Rubio

If you ctrl + shift to highlight all of the songs then drag and drop the album cover, you can set the album cover for the entire album at once.

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Answer 3

Sep 14, 2005 2:50 AM in response to Alex Rubio

There is also a free program called iTunes Art Importer that works with iTunes to find the artwork from Amazon.com and add it to the file. You basically start the importer (which also starts iTunes), select the song or songs from the same album, click the find button, select the correct art, and click another button and it will attach the artwork to the songs. Fairly quick and easy.

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Answer 4

Sep 14, 2005 2:59 AM in response to starry

Starry (and Chris),

You don't need to select the tracks, if you select the album name in the "Browser" window (click the eye in the top right corner) you can drop the picture and it will be added to all the tracks for that album.

JJ

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Answer 5

Sep 14, 2005 1:52 PM in response to Dave Williams

Hi, how do I find iTunes Art Importer?

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Amul Arya

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Sep 14, 2005 2:15 PM in response to Alex Rubio

If you are using Windows, then I think the iTunes art importer would work for you (Don't know where to get it, I would just google it).

If you are using mac, search google for a program titled "FetchArt". This script works with iTunes and OS X and does the same thing iTunes importer does.

BTW, if you don't have the album names listed the program will still work but may download the wrong artwork.

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Answer 7

starry

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Sep 14, 2005 2:37 PM in response to Amul Arya

you can also use album cover art downloader: http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/projects/albumart/
if you're using windows.

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