How does iTunes Album Artwork work in iTunes 8? Is store artwork embedded?

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How does iTunes Album Artwork work in iTunes 8? Is store artwork embedded?

I know that with music I add artwork to manually, the artwork is written to the ID3 tags of the music, embedded.

I want to know if with iTunes 8, is artwork obtained from the iTunes store also written? I suspect so because in Finder, the quicklook preview of purchased music show the album art.

If so, hooray!
If not, how do I write them in permanently so they stick on whatever computer/device i copy them to?

MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo (Late 2006), Mac OS X (10.5.7), 3 GB RAM

Posted on Jul 5, 2009 7:08 PM

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IdrisSeabright

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Jul 5, 2009 7:14 PM in response to heytaxi

Artwork that is found and added through iTunes is not embedded. You would need to cut and paste the artwork into the Get Info box or by using third party tagging software in order to embed it.

It's possible that there exists a script to take the iTunes added artwork and embed it. You might try looking at Doug's Scripts:

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/index.php

Best of luck.

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heytaxi Author

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Jul 5, 2009 7:15 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

This is with iTunes 8, right?

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Jul 5, 2009 7:21 PM in response to heytaxi

Yes and it has been the case since iTunes started adding album art which was sometime back in iTunes 7.x. Some people prefer things not to be embedded because only one instance of the artwork is stored for the entire album so there is some (minimal) space saving.

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