album art question

Hold down the option key on your keyboard, and while holding it down select the "Go" menu in your Finder menu on top of your screen (Finder File Edit View Go), and NOW the hidden Library folder can be selected. Keep the Go menu selected and toggle the option key and you will see the Library appear and disappear. SELECT Library in the "Go" menu, go to the "iTunes" folder inside the "Library", create a folder inside the "iTunes" folder and name it "Scripts" and place all your iTunes Applescripts inside this folder.

Alternatively:

To install the files/folders, drag the iTunes Apple Scripts to your[username]/Library/iTunes/Scripts/ folder.

As of OS X 10.7, the user's Library folder is hidden by default. To make the Library folder visible simply hold the Option key and click on the Finder's Go menu. Select "Library" from the dropdown menu. Then navigate to the "iTunes" folder it contains.

If there is no folder named "Scripts" there, create one and drag the files into it. AppleScripts placed in this folder will be listed in the iTunes Script menu. You do not have to install the .rtf/.rtfd documentation file in the "Scripts" folder, but it's as convenient a place as any.

All

Sorry to have hijacked this thread.

I have found the artwork tedious with my large library amongst other attributes which is where Dougscripts are great to help.

I agree that embedding the artwork in the file is great but without automated scripts like Doug's then it doesn't always work.

Timbuktu,

Thank you very much, finally cracked it.

I think that instruction should be added at the top of the thread as a tip.

Best regards

Mark

Check the reviews on MacUpdate. It is my preferred site for all of my software needs. It looks like it has a very low rating and it's not worth the money.

TuneUp is crapware in my opinion: I tried it two years ago and it was horrible, I bought it again two months ago and again I had to uninstall it because it made a mess of everything.

Did you check out what I proposed: it embeds.

Not on my system. Apple made this change quite some time ago, and I did not hear that they changed the way iTunes manages artwork again (which is by storing it inside the artwork folder). I noticed that it will now fetch artwork just for the selected files, which is very nice, but I'm not sure when this was implemented as it used to be an All-Or-Nothing artwork deal. Still, it does not embed the artwork into the mp3 file, it simply puts it into the artwork folder and iTunes will display it in its various viewing schemes.

Open the Apple fetched artwork mp3 file with any other music player and you will notice that there is no artwork associated with the file. Then manually add the artwork and open the file again and voila, there is the artwork.

This is also true for transfering the file to your iPod under manual file management, the artwork is not showing up on the iPod. Try it for yourself.

Create a smart playlist to collect all tracks with missing artwork (album artwork is false, mediakind is music), then select all tracks, right click and select "get album artwork" from the drop down. This will only download artwork for the selected tracks into the album artwork folder and link them with the corresponding album in iTunes. You have to be signed into the iTunes store to do that.

I did what I explained. The Artwork is now IN THE MP3 file. I copied some of the mp3's so made to another disk and they still have the artwork in it (I did not play with iTunes of course to test it, but another app). I have synced the mp3's to the iPad and the iPhone and there also all artwork is arrived. Mountain Lion (12C3012).

Scott,

use the "clear downloaded artwork" function - you'll have to select your entire library unless you can narrow down the list - which will then only remove the ones you previously downloaded thru Apple. To make it easier to track your non-embedded artwork, select all the tracks in your missing artwork playlist and use the "create new playlist from selection" function. You will then have a static playlist of all current tracks with missing artwork.

As you said, it is entirely up to you how much time you want to spend to keep up with embedding artwork.

Lex,

using "get album artwork" in iTunes will not embed the artwork and hasn't since about version 7 or 8, not sure how you accomplish this by not adding additional steps, as your description is exactly how you use this feature. And how come I cannot find one reference on this forum or any other supporting your theory as there are many users still managing their artwork manually. See here and on Time Tech forum, and those were just the ones on top of my search explaing the workings of artwork in iTunes rather well.

Hi all

This maybe a bit disjointed as my home phone/broadband line was taken out last night. Getting online is awkward mobile.

The App Store has Tracksift by Doug Adams that effectively searches you library for missing artwork.

Nice addition to the iTunes arsenal as it does other things too.

He also has Dupin and Dupin Lite which helps with duplicate tracks too. This includes duplicates from different albums by the same artist.

That is what I use and with the working scripts (thanks Timbuktu) I can finally get my library consolidated how I want.

Hope this helps

Mark