How do I put album pics on my nano?

I need help, I dont have a clue about how to store album covers on my ipod nano

Posted on Sep 19, 2005 9:50 PM

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Sep 20, 2005 3:01 PM in response to Dana Harge

You have to add the artwork BEFORE you download your music to the Nano.

You select a song in iTunes (or a whole group of them) and in the lower left hand corner an ADD ARTWORK BOX appears. All you do is drag the JPEG image to the box and it will be attached to the song(s).

Then, you move the songs to your iPod, as usual. The artwork should appear when you play the song. (You'll notice, however, that because of the size of the Nano's screen, the artwork is going to be pretty small. It's almost not worth the effort.)

Enjoy.

Larry

Sep 21, 2005 11:52 AM in response to Dana Harge

Take a deep breath....feel better?

In iTunes get info on a song you want to add an album cover to. Click on the artwork tab.

Now go to amazon.com in Safari and find your album you want to use the artwork from. Click on the album art for a bigger picture.

Position the browser and iTunes on your screen so you can see both windows and drag the artwork from the browser into the iTunes artwork window. Click the OK button in iTunes' info window.

You just added artwork!

Transfer that song to your iPod and enjoy the show!

Sep 23, 2005 6:09 AM in response to Dana Harge

You need to attach the album art to the songs in iTunes first. The art is part of the song file on your computer, it is not something that is only on the Nano. In other words, you can only display art on your Nano if the song file in your iTunes library has the art attached first.

First, open iTunes and select a song. If it already has album art attached, it will display in the box at the lower left of the screen. If there is no art attached, the box will say "drag album artwork here". In that case, you need to find a picture of the album art (note, iTunes will not automatically go and find the album art for you when you put a CD in - you have to find the art and attach it yourself or find a program that does it for you). You could scan your CD artwork, or find pictures of album covers on the web at places like Amazon.com. Once you find an image you want, then attach it to the song in iTunes by dragging it to the box, or by right clicking the song, selecting "Get Info", and adding it in the "Artwork" tab. You have to add the artwork to each song (you can group add for songs from the same album).

Once you have the artwork, sync to the Nano and the artwork should be transfered. Also make sure in your iPod preferences that you have the "Display album artwork on your iPod" box checked. That should be it. The artwork should show up next to the song info on your Nano's screen, and you can view the art full screen whila a song is selected by pressing the center select button a couple of times.

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