Sort by missing cover art?

After ripping my CD's into iTunes I have about 17,000 songs. Of that, about 9,000 are missing album art. I tried using iTunes' automatic 'Get Album Art' option but that did not populate the art for the missing album covers.

My question is:
Is there some means to create a dynamically updating play list within iTunes for songs that are missing album art?

Ideally I would like to create a smart play list within iTunes of songs that are missing album artwork so I can have a finite list of songs that I need to address manually.

Thanks!

Dell Latitude D620, Windows XP Pro, XP Pro, SP2; 4GB RAM; 16,854 MP3 files

Posted on Jun 5, 2009 9:41 PM

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Jun 5, 2009 10:34 PM in response to robneptune

*How to find tracks without artwork*
To find all the tracks without artwork so that you can update them you can try http://www.stum.de/itunes-find-tracks-without-artwork/ for Windows or http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=trackswithoutartwork for Macs. Use Google, Amazon, Discogs etc. to locate relevant images. Ideally these should be square, 320x320 pixels or above and borderless to give the best results in the various menus.

I say 320x320 because I believe (from using TouchCopy) that it's the size used in the iPod cache so if you're going to crop or resize a smallish image you might as well work to that size. Otherwise 200x200 is probably a good minimum size. iTunes store art seems to be generally 600x600 which is probably a good maximum.

I've not, so far, been able to locate a script to automate the process of replicating art from a track that has it to other tracks of the same album without art (or work out how to write one) however if you have artwork for some tracks of an album, but not others, find the album in the main music folder, select a track with artwork, right-click (Control-Click for Macs) on the art & click copy, then select all the tracks of the album, use CTRL-I or Command-I to *Get Info* and then paste the image into the artwork box.

tt2

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