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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+96Ok. you guys are losers. you all dugg me down but none of you actually clicked the link. dugg mirror frickin' automatically detects the referring link and sends you there. you don't need to put the whole url. try it next time.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -33/+79http://www.duggmirror.com
- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+42This tip is basically clearing all your existing album art and then hoping iTunes has replacement art for all your albums. If it doesn't you'll have to hunt down album art all over again.
- TomP, on 10/12/2007, -29/+53Is it me or is iTunes 7 less stable?
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Here's a little trick I used:
Click the arrow button beside the Album name in the list of songs. This will take you to the Music Store and show you that album. If it works, then they have the album, and the get album art thing will work for that album.
You may need to rename the album to make it match exactly what's in the iTunes store. You may also find that if you don't have proper track numbers on the songs, you get nothing. I had songs that were only track numbers "X" and would not get album art. When I changed them to be "X of Y", then suddenly I was able to get album art for them. - lysander, on 10/12/2007, -7/+22Talk about a big DUH with this one.
- phronko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I have a somewhat large library, and the "find album art" feature found art for less than half of my albums. Some are even pretty common ones (e.g. Abbey Road).
Either something is buggy about the feature, or it just doesn't have much art in its database, or this is an issue specific to Canada (sorta like the lack of TV shows and movies). - crackhammer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9TomP
Yea, I've noticed that the video player especially is less stable and laggy then before the upgrade. Apple forums are already talking about this and I hope Apple is working on a solution. - alawson75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@phronko: I think I saw a comment on another digg article explaining the Abbey Road absence, seeing as how no Beatles tracks are available on iTMS yet. Didn't make much sense, however, to see Apple's Showtime event footage with Steve showing off iTunes 7 with Abbey Road cover art.
-General Library Comment- I have over 10k tracks and it took quite a few hours to scour all the needed artwork before it began going out to pull any available artwork. Playback was hampered quite a bit on an AMD64 3200+ with 1gb Ram. Afterwards playback was smooth including any DRM'd video clips I tried. - zaph47, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@ phronko. the iTunes Music Store doesn't sell any Beatles, thus no album art.
- maxdefcon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I don't have a huge library, but for the CD's I ripped to iTunes, I updated the art and it worked without problem.
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To TomP: Is it me or is iTunes 7 less stable?
I haven't had any problems with iTunes 7. - cello, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I agree ... a lot of really common, perfectly tagged albums were art-less after Apple was done with them.
Amazon + click and drag + time = the only sure fire way - crackhammer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I bought a movie and can't really watch it without frowning - the video jumps or freezes while the audio keeps going. I'm not bashing iTunes at all, just throwing this out there to see if anyone has also experience this. And if you know of a fix... well I'll give you a free Starbucks coupon for your troubles :-)
- ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6wildleaf - RTFA. It automatically finds the artwork for albums/songs that are missing it. If your songs/albums already have album artwork, it will not update them. That is what the article is talking about.
- XorSystem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Has anyone done this with a large library? I have a semi-large collection that I keep crystal clean and updated, but having all the art consistent and clear would be nice.
I'm willing to try this but I'd honestly HATE to lose all my art and have to go through and do it all again... I'm going to wait and watch to see how other's have done. - Obvioustroll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@TomP - yes, it's less stable. It's already crashed on my AlBook; I seriously don't remember iTunes ever crashing before.
They've also made some gratuitously annoying UI changes. Where's Sauron's eye? I'm completely trained to click that to burn disks, refresh podcasts, etc.. - jessecollins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@Otto
Good call.
Yeah, iTunes does seem to be picky about the format and naming so far. - spaemo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Why must you have an iTunes account to make it work? It's ridiculous. There isn't a iTunes Store available at my country and even using my Paypal account I can't create one iTunes account because it checks if my credit card is american or not.
- Obvioustroll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Heads up!
This can result in you losing a lot of art work; I did it and ended up with lots of albums with no art - bizarrely, albums that I actually bought through iTunes were some of those that ended up with no album art. - dprior, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Just back up all of your tracks first. If you don't like the results, restore. No harm.
- DaTaylorM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@phronko I found that it worked for about 40% of my library. Better than nothing but still somewhat disappointing. Some of what it didn't find was also very common and had proper id3. Maybe it will get better.
- kwilliam71, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Uhh... personally I prefer the old (original) covers. Thanks anyway. ;)
- therealfoz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4wow.. this gets a big NSS from me.
(no sh*t sherlock) - poipoipoi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Also, you must have an iTunes Music Store account for this feature to work. That being said…"
boo. - DamageInc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3iTunes has also played music fine for me. Doesn't sound different that an other play (like WMP). And I tweak it a little with the EQ.
- mjpark, on 10/12/2007, -11/+14TomP:
It's just you that's less stable. Seriously though, I haven't had a problem with it in OS X, but in Windows, iTunes crashes every time I access the TV section in the store. - SyDIGG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Consider it as a labor of love.
- br0ck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@gonephishen: When I first clicked your link I got a '500 Internal Server Error' even after you posted your followup comment I got the error. Now it's working. Maybe that's why you got dugg down initially?
- bleaknik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I too have a very large iTunes library, but... after 20 Gigs or so, do you really care what about extra gig or two? Really. If it was an issue at all, we'd all have made DVD-R data dumps instead of storing it on an HDD. Right?
- astrosmash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It doesn't work for me, either. I suspect that it only works for American iTunes accounts right now.
- jeriqo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Problem is you loose all the album arts you previously had and the iTunes store doesn't have.
iTunes should re-download the album art if we specify it, even if there is already one. - katanna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ digger367:
iTunes won't charge anything unless you download something that costs money. You can sign up and download free stuff all for free... just don't purchase anything.
I don't know what "top up your account" means, but iTunes has two ways of buying music. One is where you have a shopping cart, and when you want to buy, you pay and download everything at once. #2 is "one click" (which really isn't one click), where you click "buy me" and it asks you if you are sure, and you say yes. It then charges you.
Note that even if you download free things from iTunes, you will receive a receipt in the mail... don't worry, it is for nothing (pun intended).
Matthew - DamageInc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It doesn't do this anymore. It writes all the art work to your iTunes Music Folder (My Music in My Documents by default).
- sw0rdfish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Also, if you do this, and custom Album Art you have, that iTunes DOES'T SELL you will lose, because the first step erases all your Album Art.
- bastardo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Doesn't work unless you have an iTunes store account =(
- DamageInc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I never added artwork to my library in the past, so I'm letting iTunes do it for the first time with my 16,000 songs. So far its working well, but there seem to be a lot of patches of albums with missing work, and I have to keep telling it to get the artwork. I think it will eventually download all of them (well, studio art atleast) seeing as how its only been about 12 hours since I upgraded.
- salazr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2rjcarr, it doesnt, now theres an album art folder in the ~/music/itunes/ and its just metadata for the files
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anything for Mac users?
- levi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The problem is iuTunes will only add the album art if the spelling of the artists and album match that in the iTMS. Its a nice idea but poorly implemented it needs to have the ability to update the entire id3tag not just the album art and be smart enough to recognize different spellings.
- mjar81, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2this tip is kind of a no brainer... except that i filtered it by non-purchased music (since purchased music already had the good artwork).
I did this the moment i installed iTunes 7. - mc4_a, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Next on Digg, how to lose weight by cutting off your arms.
This is a really bad idea that will cause more trouble than it's worth for any user that has maintained their own album art. Itunes will maybe find 50% of what I have which is less than the 75% I have already input. Hope you don't have any Beatles albums.
On an unrelated subject, I can't get the stupid firmware to update. - pjludlow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Like many have mentioned the new album artwork is now in its own folder rather than in the music file itself. I find this annoying (although the new artwork is better than what I had in many cases) because if I transfer the files to another machine I don't get the artwork with it. Yes it does save space, but that is cheap now so I'd rather have the iTunes artwork be embedded in the file.
To give you an example of how much this new way can save here's my observations. I have quite a few tracks/albums and to make it easier I'll round up to 20,000 tracks (not quite there by only off a thousand or so). Let's assume every track has album art. Now art adds .1 or .2 Mb per track so will multiply my total tracks (.2 x 20,000) and it comes out with 2-4 GB of total space used for album art. I don't find this bad at all considering the music files are over 100 GB. At most you are seeing the album art take 4% of your used space. Considering you can buy a 500 GB drive for around $180 this would mean your 4 GB just cost you about $1.50. This is not a big deal to me. - cdevroe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This site is hosted on Dreamhost. On a very large account. I'm fairly certain it is their fault that our site is down during our little stint on Digg. Sorry everyone.
- DamageInc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm not actually sure how it works with an iPod, as I have never owned one or personally used one (other than friends'). I would think it would just transfer that artwork folder to the ipod (the folder doesnt contain images, just tons of folder with .itc files) and then the ipod would read from there, like itunes does.
- cdevroe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think it is kind of 50/50. It is nice to have the music files associated with the album art, but it is also nice to have the music files as small as possible, so having the album art separate (especially those with multiple covers or inserts) is kind of nice as well.
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2WTF are all y'all talking about? I just got plenty of Beatles album art from iTunes.
- ostermei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe try editing those songs' info to put them under album title: "Unsorted" or something along those lines? I haven't tried it myself, but it seems like it should work.
- digger367, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i have a couple of QUESTIONS about itunes,
#1 Can you give i tunes credit card details and not spend ANY money?
#2 if you want to buy something, does itunes charge you when u purchase something, or do you have to top up your account in "allofMP3 style"?
Cheers - cell-gfx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Exactly. As I've used the Windows app for applying album art from Amazon on a lot of my CDs, I think I'll be avoiding this one. Assuming the iTunes store is even a remotely complete collection of album covers is not a good idea...
- eatmybabies, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1give coverscout a try, demo work well for me... no idea if it plays well with itunes 7 yet.
http://www.equinux.com/us/products/coverscout/index.html -
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