Adding album art to wav files for ripped albums not sold on Itunes

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Adding album art to wav files for ripped albums not sold on Itunes

I am ripping cds in .wav format and trying to add artwork to albums. Here is what seems to be happening. If Itunes sells the album on itunes then it attaches the album art when I rip it in wav format. If they do not sell the album then there is no album art and I can't find a way to add it....(no artwork tab for wav files) ......however, if I rip the same cd in one of apples formats then I am able to go to the artwork tab and add the album art. The reason I am using wav is because my receiver will play wav via USB without itunes if I want and also both Windows and Apple play wav files. Any ideas?
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Posted on Dec 15, 2008 12:18 PM

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Answer 1

Zevoneer

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Dec 15, 2008 12:34 PM in response to karllutz

WAV files don't support artwork so you can't manually embed artwork into a WAV file like you can with other formats. When artwork is downloaded from the store it's not embedded into the file, it comes down in a proprietary format and is stored in an album artwork folder. The artwork is then referenced to the WAV file which gets round the fact that WAV doesn't normally support artwork, unless you are using iTunes to fetch artwork in this way you can't add an image to the WAV file.

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mleghorn

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Feb 23, 2009 8:35 PM in response to Zevoneer

OK, so what's the solution? I have my entire CD collection ripped into iTunes as wav. Is there some 3rd party hook into the process that iTunes uses to download art into the album artwork folder?

Thanks,
Mike

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Katrina S.

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Feb 23, 2009 11:58 PM in response to mleghorn

Your itunes library has to list the track name, artist, and album title for the WAV file exactly as it is listed in the iTunes store.
WHen itunes finds the match it downloads the art to a folder named Album Artwork.

Move that WAV file to another PC, and the artwork will be gone.

If you want tracks with embedded artwork, consider using MP3 files.

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karllutz Author

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Dec 15, 2008 12:52 PM in response to Zevoneer

Ok, thanks a ton for the help

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Zevoneer

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Dec 15, 2008 12:54 PM in response to karllutz

You're welcome, take care.

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