I wanted to move my music from my Windows media player library to my new iTunes library, and while the songs seem to be moving over fine, the album art was all lost in translation. Is there an easy way to recover them?

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I wanted to move my music from my Windows media player library to my new iTunes library, and while the songs seem to be moving over fine, the album art was all lost in translation. Is there an easy way to recover them?

Hi, all. I'm new to Apple, and wanted to transfer my music library from Windows media player to iTunes. I hit the import folder button and selected the music folders. While the music seems to be moving over just fine, I seem to have lost all of the album art. Is there a simple way to recover them?

Windows 7

Posted on Nov 21, 2011 8:58 PM

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Answer 1

zsnow

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Nov 21, 2011 8:59 PM in response to awesomesaucesquared

In iTunes, go to Advanced in the menu bar and then select Get Album Artwork. Any song that is in the iTunes store will get its proper artwork.

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Answer 2

Nov 22, 2011 5:49 AM in response to awesomesaucesquared

What format was the music in? It would be either MP3, WAV, or WMA, it could in theory but in your case unlikely be also in AAC or Apple Lossless. iTunes does not support artwork in WAV files.

When music is added to Windows Media Player from a CD, typically the album artwork is not put in the music files itself but is instead stored as separate JPEG files in the folder the music file is in, this might explain things. I have not tried WMP12 but with older versions the quality of the album artwork was very poor so getting new artwork from the iTune Store as described by zsnow would be a better choice anyway as the iTunes Store has artwork at 600x600 pixels which is (was) three times as good as WMP.

If the iTunes Store does not do all the tracks and you still need to do some, you can either look for the JPEG files I mentioned and use those, or use Google to search for images and copy and paste them in to iTunes.

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