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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?
Thanks

Posted on Dec 15, 2008 12:18 PM

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User profile for user: Zevoneer
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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User profile for user: Katrina S.
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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Adding album art to wav files for ripped albums not sold on Itunes

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