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iTunes 11 - any way to add Album Art

Pasting album art appears to have been disabled in ITunes 11

- Big issue for those of us that manage folders rather than allow iTunes to organise as cannot Get Album Art and now way to fix and change an error across diff CD singles, Promos etc., 7" artwork (front, back etc).

- By contrast found the 'Show in Windows Explorer' option that opens up a window of the folder for my track(s) that would have rocked for getting at the images I wanted to cut and paste

Is there a workaround, planned fix in a iTunes 11. release?

Don't mind using another product to paste into the files if iTunes 11 will synch and pick up updated art

Thanks

modlang51

Windows 7

Posted on Dec 2, 2012 5:53 AM

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kernowguy

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Posted on Dec 2, 2012 7:05 AM

Had this problem and think I have solved a work round although simple copy and paste we used to have would be so much better to have back - APPLE PLEASE NOTE! - sorry I think that deserves a shout.

I regularly add cd's to my library which don't have artwork on itunes so I search and used to be able to copy the image and paste straight into itunes but not with itunes 11.

Work around I have found is as follows.

Locate Artwork, right click and "Add image to iPhoto library"

Locate album in itunes. Right click and "Get Info".

Double click on the artwork frame and will open window showing your files.

Open photos and locate your saved artwork photo.

Select and click open.

Click OK on the Multiple Item information window and itunes will update the tracks on the album with the artwork.

It worked for me so hope it does for you.

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Aug 23, 2013 8:01 PM in response to modlang51

I'm facing the same issue here. Thing is, could adding an album artwork fail for me because I imported the Audio CD using the .wav format? I've tried several times, different methods; none seem to work.

Oct 21, 2013 5:02 AM in response to modlang51

I found you can't copy and paste artwork if songs are 'wav.' files. They needed to be 'MP3.' files to enable the paste to work and show up on i tunes.

turingtest2

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Oct 21, 2013 6:03 AM in response to Popontour

.wav files won't take embedded artwork. Sometimes you get lucky and iTunes will "download" the appropriate image and hold it elsewhere, but .wav is the least best option in general since none of the tag information gets embedded and the file size is larger than it needs be. Use Apple Lossless or AIFF for CD quality rips.

tt2

jyjle

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Jan 7, 2014 8:06 PM in response to modlang51

There's a lot of songs which iTunes would miss applying an artwork automatically. Besides, I don't like the requirement of having an iTunes Store account in order to use the automatic artwork find function.

You can search the web for third-party software that does that. If you are on windows, I would recommend Tenorshare Music Cleanup.

It is designed to help you fix the problem of duplicate music tracks in iTunes library. It helps you remove duplicate songs on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and other iOS devices. Besides, it also allows you to clean up local music library. It is the easiest way to maintain a clean library as well as save gigabytes of valuable disk space. What's more, the program has the ability to scan audio tracks and automatically get songs information, such as Artist, Album, Composer, Tracker Name.

Feb 12, 2014 10:01 PM in response to joefromnc

This copy paste method worked a treat. Thanks.

park1jy

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May 3, 2014 8:00 AM in response to RedRobbo

Thank you, this solved my conundrum!

Apr 6, 2015 2:39 PM in response to kernowguy

Thank you. Your solution works!

Apr 6, 2015 9:09 PM in response to apexgeo1987

"apexgeo1987May 26, 2013 9:14 AM Re: iTunes 11 - any way to add Album Art
Re: iTunes 11 - any way to add Album Artin response to modlang51

For all the people that cant seem to do any of the methods mainly the one where the get info paste process doesnt work.

What you need to do is go to the mp3 songs that you want the artwork for select all of them.

the right click and see if the read only box is checked.

if so uncheck and do the copy paste method and it will work."

only thing that worked.

Dec 27, 2015 1:01 PM in response to Alafolie29

Holy poop!

This is my first time to post on any kind of forum or discussion of any kind in the whole wide Internet, but I just want to say: this "cmd+c/cmd+v" tip was a HUGE help to me. Thanks!

iTunes 11 - any way to add Album Art