how do you give an unknown album in itunes a picture?
I want to give the unknown albums a picture so that when I'm listening to that music there is a picture of the artist or band on the screen. How do I do this?
iPod touch, iOS 4.2
3 replies
Manual Method 
1. Decide which songs you would like to add artwork to. Try searching for the album in iTunes. Click once on a song to make sure the album has no artwork.
Decide which songs you would like to add artwork to.
2. Locate the artwork. An excellent source is Wikipedia.[1] Wikipedia has an article on almost every album, and they include a picture of said albums. Click on the artwork for a larger image and drag the image to your desktop or right click and copy the image. (If you cannot find your the artwork on Wikipedia try doing an image search with a search engine such as Google Images.) Always use the full sized image, even if google says it's the same size. If you do not use the full sized image, the image will be blurry.[2])
Locate the artwork.
3. Highlight the song(s) in the album that are missing artwork by clicking on them. To highlight multiple songs click on the first song, hold down the shift key, and click on the last song in the album. To highlight multiple songs that are not grouped together click on a song and click on the other songs while holding down the ⌘/apple key on a Mac or ctrl on a PC. To highlight all songs in that window press ⌘/apple A (Mac) or ctrl A.
Highlight the song(s) in the album that are missing artwork by clicking on them.
4. Go to File and Get Info (or press ⌘/apple I on a Mac, ctrl I on a PC). A window should pop up labeled Multiple Item Information. Drag or paste the image into the box labeled Artwork. Under Album make sure all the songs have the same album name by typing the correct album and checking the box.
Go to File and Get Info (or press ⌘/apple I on a Mac, ctrl I on a PC).
5. Click OK and wait for the computer to finish adding the artwork.
Click OK and wait for the computer to finish adding the artwork.
6. Delete the songs from your iPod and re-add them if necessary. Note-you might not need to delete the songs from your iPod...under the music tab on your iPod screen, deselect the album artwork button, click Apply, then reselect the button and click Apply.
Delete the songs from your iPod and re-add them if necessary.
7. Kick back and enjoy the ability to scroll through your albums and identify them by artwork.
This looks like a very helpful reply, but I can't use it as I have a later version of iTunes. Is it possible to post a more updated solution (and also that the solution is for 'unknown album' and not an album that is just missing artwork)?
Cheers 🙂
EDIT: I tried to do this by using Get Info but it will not let me type in the artist, album name etc. or add album artwork
how do you give an unknown album in itunes a picture?