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Album Artwork As Screen Saver

Please forgive me if this has been answered or is a really dumb question - I am not a frequent Mac user who is trying to help out a fellow employee with his iTunes Album Artwork issues.

Working on a MacBook Pro (2.33Ghz Intel Duo, 2Gb/120Gb), he's having trouble getting recently downloaded album artwork to run in the screen saver. He can only select one folder to use as the screen saver - all the downloaded art is in a host of folder after subfolder so he can't just the select "downloads" folder in the Album Artwork folder. He can select the art that he's had on his system for a while, and the screen saver will display all of that, but not any of the downloads for his newer music.

Does he actually have to link the new, downloaded art to the tracks in iTunes before it falls into the folder that he can use for the screen saver? And if so, how can he tell what art is what, since they're all unreadable files?

Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you!

Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on May 22, 2007 1:46 PM

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May 22, 2007 2:04 PM in response to SRuelke

He can only select one folder to use as the screen saver
He doesn't need to select ANY folders to use for the iTunes artwork screen saver.

Mac OS 10.4 Help - Using iTunes artwork as a screen saver

1 - Choose Apple menu > System Preferences and click Desktop & Screen Saver.
2 - Click iTunes Artwork.
3 - To adjust settings for this screen saver, click Options.
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May 23, 2007 5:48 AM in response to Chris CA

When he selects iTunes Artwork in the Screen Saver, it only pulls from one folder. There are two folders within the artwork folder on the system (which each have many subfolders), and the Screen Saver doesn't pull from the downloads folder so all the recently downloaded artwork doesn't get into the rotation.
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May 23, 2007 8:06 AM in response to SRuelke

The screen saver gets the artwork of all songs in the iTunes library.

the Screen Saver doesn't pull from the downloads folder
What "downloads" folder?
If these songs are in iTunes and there is artwork for those songs, it will use that artwork.
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May 23, 2007 8:26 AM in response to SRuelke

Perhaps the fellow employee manually downloaded album art and saved each image to a different (non-iTunes) folder?
I've downloaded album art manually, when iTunes couldn't find the art on its own, but I saved the JPEG image to the desktop and then dragged into the iTunes window on the left (check the "show art" button in the lower left corner of iTunes). That should put everything in the proper folder.
The screensaver works fine for me, selecting from all album art in iTunes.
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May 23, 2007 8:30 AM in response to SDDave

I saved the JPEG image to the desktop and then dragged into the iTunes window on the left (check the "show art" button in the lower left corner of iTunes). That should put everything in the proper folder.
That actually saves the artwork directly into the song file itself, which is the only way iTunes used to do it.
Version 7 is when Coverflow was introduced and added the Artwork folder. Now it works either way.
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May 23, 2007 8:49 AM in response to Chris CA

Chris: thanks, I was not aware of those details. But:
(1) does the person have iTunes 7 or an earlier version?
(2) I see that Coverflow provides an alternate way to view saved album art, but does it also provide an alternate (safely integrated with iTunes & screensaver) way to save album art? I don't know the answer, I'm just asking to learn. Not sure how the mechanics of that would work.

Dave
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May 23, 2007 10:12 AM in response to SDDave

Which version of iTunes used is not really relevant. The screen saver looks at the iTunes database to find the artwork.

If you use the iTunes to find the artwork, it stores it in the artwork folder. You can paste the artwork directly into the music files as before.
Either way, the iTunes database provides the correct info to view the artwork either in the screen saver or in iTunes.
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Jul 21, 2007 1:09 PM in response to Chris CA

I'm in iTunes 7.3
I have lots of album art that shows in coverview and attached to song files. but the Itunes screensaver only pulls up 3 or 4 covers.
Some art is pasted in by me and iTunes has provided artwork too.

How do I get all of em to show in the screensaver??
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Jul 21, 2007 7:56 PM in response to gigaguy

Tried everything with Apple support today, including totally reformatting drive and clean install of OS. Same exact problem with iTunes Screen saver, same exact 4 album covers show up, no more no less. This is a bug with the software IMO. Getting nostalgia for Windows.
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