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How do I "remove" artwork from iTunes?

My soon to be ex husband decided to put his face as cover art in iTunes. I was able to remove the album art from some individual songs but not from iTunes itself. I upgraded this past weekend to an Classic and was deleting some items from my iTunes library when I slipped and clicked on "Get cover art." Since I'm still a newbie with iTunes, i didn't give it a thought until I ejected my new iPod and saw his face floating at the side of the iPod window and on every album cover!!!! I successfully removed him from the albums but cannot for the life of me remove him as a display picture on my iPod nor can I remove him from iTunes altogether! Help! I will be so unhappy if I have to see his face all day!

Windows Vista, 120 GB Classic iPod

Posted on Apr 7, 2009 5:13 PM

22 replies

Apr 10, 2009 7:16 AM in response to turingtest2

I'm replying to this message again to let you know that I did what you suggested here and it did indeed remove my husband from my iPod and the coverflow on my iPod as well. In the message I posted at the end of this thread it shows what I did and that I still have my husband on iTunes but wish to remove the picture. How I do this, I don't know. The cache I found by doing a search my computer (album artwork entered into search window). I opened what I found and there are many folders but they're empty. At the end of the list was the cache folder but it was completely empty.

So the second part of my problem is still unresolved.

Apr 10, 2009 10:11 AM in response to FrustrationAbounds

Frustration: simple question, just how technically savvy would you consider your soon to be ex to be? Your situation is not typical, so... it would help if we know what level we are all dealing with.

turingtest2

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Apr 10, 2009 1:57 PM in response to FrustrationAbounds

Right click on the Album Artwork folder and select properties. How many files does it report? If you've successfully cleaned out all art there will many folders, but no actual files. Any files that do remain will be *.itc2 files which is the format iTunes uses for this artwork cache. As far as I'm aware the empty folders are related to albums that used to have art which has since been deleted and serve no useful function. My recommendation is simply to delete the Album Artwork folder & all it's subfolders. iTunes will then rebuild the cache as when it needs to. If you left embedded art in some files, for example, then scrolling slowly though the library in grid view will cause iTunes to scan the files and repopulate the cache with any art it finds.

Are you still seeing the picture somewhere in iTunes or are you just trying to be certain before proceeding?

tt2

Apr 10, 2009 4:06 PM in response to Stillgrass

Stillgrass,

A simple and yet excellent question! My soon to be ex was studying to be a computer engineer (software, hardware and graphic design). He is from another country and stopped to visit the USA for a while and hasn't gone back. He's always helping his friends with their computer troubles. I hope you understand that I do NOT want to call him for this matter nor do I desire him to come near my laptop ever again lol. I appreciate the help.

Frustration

Katrina S.

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Apr 10, 2009 11:08 PM in response to FrustrationAbounds

Oh hon, I understand.
Why do you think slipping on Get Cover Art did this, though? Get Cover Art gets images from the itunes store....usually.
I'd still like to know, if you restore your ipod to factory settings, if the image still shows up.

I'd assume not, but it's important to know.
Then if you add one song, does it show up.

Apr 11, 2009 10:04 AM in response to Stillgrass

To All,

Here's something i'm going to try but I'd like to know if it's going to mess things up....i'm going to put all my music from iTunes onto my iPod then delete everything from iTunes then hook up the iPod to download the contents to iTunes....is this cool?

Frustration

turingtest2

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Apr 11, 2009 10:49 AM in response to FrustrationAbounds

Here's something i'm going to try but I'd like to know if it's going to mess things up....i'm going to put all my music from iTunes onto my iPod then delete everything from iTunes then hook up the iPod to download the contents to iTunes....is this cool?

Not a good move... While it is possible to recover media from the iPod to iTunes it won't "clean" the tags in any way. If they are still infected with soon-to-be-ex's image then when you recover them to iTunes you'll be back where you started.

Do you still see the image anywhere in iTunes now, scanning through via Cover Flow, Grid View... etc.? If so where? Did you remove the Album Artwork folder as I suggested?

tt2

How do I "remove" artwork from iTunes?