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how to fix your itunes artwork - download squad live and let dry: hang your dirty laundry at greendaily.com aol my aol mail make aol my homepage aol m&f engadget tuaw joystiq tuaw wii fanboy diy life download squadweb how to fix your itunes artworkposted nov 30th 2006 6:00pm by jason clarkefiled under: audio, design, fun, internet, photo, windows, macintosh, web services, apple, freeware, how-tosi recently learned a little trick that helped me to fix the artwork that was associated with the songs in my music collection. over the past few years, i've used a number of different artwork importing tools, with varied results. although for the most part everything was fine, i began to find that the images that were coming up for some of my songs were completely incorrect. at first it didn't concern me too much, but when it reached a point where one in five songs had the wrong album art, i started to get annoyed. my first thought was that since itunes now affords the ability to automatically import high-quality album art images, i might as well take advantage of that fact. so i finally jumped through the hoops that apple makes you jump through (namely, signing up for an itunes store account with a valid credit card - no matter, since i don't intend to buy anything), and i was finally able to check the little option to automatically download missing album art. of course, although this will help me gather up the missing bits, it does nothing to fix the ones that are currently wrong.no matter, i though, i'll simply use the right-click option (i'm a windows user - i'm not sure what the mac equivalent is... something like command-shift-capslock-tab click while patting your head and rubbing your belly at the same time - okay, sorry... that was uncalled for) to clear downloaded album art. feeling proud of myself for thinking of it, i promptly highlighted my entire music collection (might as well fix 'em all at once, right?), and chose clear downloaded artwork from the context menu. unfortunately, here's what i saw: crossing my fingers, i clicked the clear downloaded artwork button, only to find that the vast majority of my album artwork (including the wrong stuff) still existed. crap. now what? i couldn't believe that there would be no way in itunes to clear embedded album artwork from an mp3 file. it took some digging, but i finally figured it out. maybe i'm the only person that is interested in this particular feature of itunes, but it took me a while to find it, so i'm writing it up here in the hopes it helps someone else. the secret is to choose get info from the context menu, rather than clear downloaded artwork. this doesn't seem entirely intuitive, but trust me on this one. try it with one song, if you like, just to see what i mean, but i promise it also works if you select a bunch of songs. if you select one song, simply click on the artwork tab (the last one), highlight the image and click the delete button. if you're selecting a group of songs, it will ask if you want to edit information for multiple items (choose yes), then you get a more generic dialog, that looks like this: notice the checkmark in the checkbox beside the big artwork box. i did that for you - you're welcome. so here's the deal, and it's the part i had the hardest time wrapping my head around, but it works. the trick is to check this box, like i just did here. when you click ok, having this checked will remove all associated album artwork from the songs you selected. depending on how many songs you had selected, this can take a bit of time, since it's chugging through all of your songs removing the image from the song file. but when you're done, you've got a nice clean set of song files, and itunes will now dutifully download the appropriate artwork for each file as you play it. of course, now you can right-click and choose "get album artwork" for the set. in my experience that will work for some of the songs, and it's worth doing... but you'll want to leave the option checked to automatically download missing artwork, just in case it misses some.tags: album art, album artwork, albumart, albumartwork, embedded album art, embedded artwork, embeddedalbumart, embeddedartwork, fix itunes artwork, fixitunesartwork, itunes, itunes artwork, itunesartwork, mp3 art, mp3artpermalinkemail thislinking blogscomments [46] related headlines amazon album art widget for mac os x's dashboard (122 days ago - 4 comments) itunes and illegal downloads love artie (569 days ago - 4 comments) tunesleeve - album art importer (345 days ago - 4 comments) itunes alternatives (6 days ago - 26 comments) itunes 7.5 released (9 days ago - 12 comments) reader comments(page 1)1. yipee this worked. thanks for ending a completely frustrating situation.strayposted at 12:41am on dec 1st 2006 by straylight2. yeah, i've done this many times and it works a treat. good call sharing it.posted at 12:41am on dec 1st 2006 by magichew3. i've been using the itunes art importer for some time now, and i have been very pleased with the results.posted at 12:42am on dec 1st 2006 by dave provost4. being methodical about this really helps. every time i aquire a new album the first thing that i do is to go to amazon and get the album art, and then make sure that everything is tagged correctly. now i have a beautiful music collectionposted at 12:42am on dec 1st 2006 by kyle5. along these lines:is it possible to find 'album' title while just having the song title and artist information. i have thousands of mp3s that are from my pre-anal-retentive days (3+ yrs ago) when all i cared about was song title and artist...now i cringe every time i open itunes and see songs without album titles or album titles that say something like '**ripm@st3r**911**l33t!'.help please!posted at 12:42am on dec 1st 2006 by asm6. i don't know if it's a bit offtopic here, but:assume i have a big collection of mp3, sorted in folder by artist\album and each folder has its own "folder.jpg"is there any way to import cd covers into itunes (i.e. convert the folder.jpg) in order to see the cover art in itunes and -hopefully- on my ipod nano? or, if not,how do i get proper cd cover art in itunes (using windows os) without having an itunes account?thanks..posted at 12:42am on dec 1st 2006 by salvo7. @3: you might want to try musicbrainz. it will go through your files and correct tags with help of their server. of course, it requires you checking if every album is ok, but it does the job.posted at 12:43am on dec 1st 2006 by therat8. itunes art importerhttp://www.yvg.com/itunesartimporter.shtmlit searches amazon for the cd cover.posted at 12:43am on dec 1st 2006 by slash9. you write for a tech blog. shouldn't you know that macs come with two-button mice? posted at 2:49am on dec 1st 2006 by paul10. yeeaaaaahhh! (what he said)im like in year 8 and i already knew this stuff.so now i feel special.good job, itunes can be so stupid/confusing/gay.posted at 5:24am on dec 1st 2006 by macman11. don't know if it's a bit offtopic here...how can i import "folder.jpg" into itunes -or- how can i download cover art into itunes without an itunes account (i have no credit card)?is there anyone of you geeky people that can help me? ;-)posted at 5:56am on dec 1st 2006 by salvo12. how ironic that you posted this, as i just figured this out earlier this week after multiple google searches. the album artwork feature takes up quite a bit of space when you are quickly running out of room on a 40gb ipod.[quote]5. along these lines:is it possible to find 'album' title while just having the song title and artist information.i have thousands of mp3s that are from my pre-anal-retentive days (3+ yrs ago) when all i cared about was song title and artist...now i cringe every time i open itunes and see songs without album titles or album titles that say something like '**ripm@st3r**911**l33t!'.help please![/quote]i am not sure if there's software out there that will scan your music collection in itunes to correct this. i just manually edited my collection and used http://www.gracenote.com/music/ to find the proper missing info when i needed it.posted at 9:17am on dec 1st 2006 by moovyphreak13. right-click on the macintosh is.... right-click.... same as in windowsposted at 9:24am on dec 1st 2006 by james14. yeah, the click comment was uncalled for - you're right. if it wasn't for us "weird" apple people you wouldn't even be using itunes. worse still, you might have a zune.posted at 9:53am on dec 1st 2006 by macnerd15. i also use wikipedia for album art. amazon has smaller jpegs for the most part. the cool thing about wikipedia is that really obscure stuff will often show up. amazon is great if all your tunes are relatively common. one other searching tip for those indie tracks: search by the actual file name in google. sometimes you get lucky. the good thing about itunes 7 is that you can scroll through the cover art and see what's not right. the itunes music store often will pick the most recent or common cover for a track, not necessarily the correct one. this happens most often with greatest hit collections and other compilations. posted at 10:41am on dec 1st 2006 by zweirad16. i wouldn't recommend doing using itunes to add/manage artwork as it only adds the artwork to it's own database, and not to the actual mp3 itself.this will cause users problems further down the road if they switch to another mp3 player (zune maybe?) or if they want to use another media player like wmp11.adding the art via another app is advisable:http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2006/10/24/1002/posted at 10:52am on dec 1st 2006 by everton17. re adding artwork without an itunes account. do the same thing described above to get into a particular song's (actually pick the whole album) artwork, but double-click on the big thumbnail box for album artwork. that'll open a dialog box, asking you to navigate to an image on your hard drive. find the image you already have, and presto.posted at 11:30am on dec 1st 2006 by gtd wannabe18. are you using vista? or is that xp with a theme. either way, i like. could you please let me know how you got windows to look like that. (unless the procedure involves right clicking, i use a mac mouse...)posted at 2:26pm on dec 1st 2006 by eric19. "everton" is completely mistaken. itunes has the facility to embed album artwork directly into .mp3 files. i've been using that feature for years.posted at 2:41pm on dec 1st 2006 by jeff benson20. i use google image search, just put in artist and album and you'll get a nice selection of album art covers. then click "see full size image" and right-click "save as" to a folder, mine's d:/itunes/albumart. works every time.also windows media player will fix your tags and rename your files, even on files you didn't rip on your own computer. just right click on the song and select "get album info".posted at 5:40pm on dec 1st 2006 by niklasnext 20 comments view posts by categoriesaudio (690)beta (123)blogging (569)business (1222)design (713)developer (861)e-mail (419)finance (109)fun (1491)games (458)internet (3642)kids (114)office (422)os updates (449)p2p (132)photo (412)podcasting (152)productivity (1126)search (113)security (444)social software (762)text (420)troubleshooting (19)utilities (1455)video (798)voip (114)web 2.0 (221)web services (2745)companiesadobe (154)aol (28)apache foundation (1)apple (408)canonical (11)google (1072)ibm (29)microsoft (1099)mozilla (376)novell (12)openoffice.org (35)palmsource (11)red hat (16)symantec (13)yahoo! (286)licensecommercial (572)shareware (176)freeware (1577)open source (717)miscpodcasts (5)features (249)hardware (167)news (1014)holiday gift guide (13)platformswindows (3082)windows mobile (334)blackberry (25)macintosh (1851)iphone (41)linux (1357)unix (65)palm (163)symbian (104)columnsask dls (2)analysis (15)browser tips (248)dls podcast (4)googleholic (135)how-tos (74)dls interviews (15)design tips (13)mobile minute (51)mods (67)time-wasters (309)weekend review (7)imaging tips (28) resources send us news tips contact us advertise corrections? problems? rss newsfeeds feeds by category sponsored links download squad bloggers (30 days)#bloggerpostscmts1brad linder178252chris gilmer4743ted wallingford2724jason clarke1205christina warren1046grant robertson927ian smith808dolores parker729lisa hoover3110sue polinsky3411alex hung10 download squad tags photos ipod microsoft productivity video browser web2.0 firefox socialnetworking youtube developer search im vista onlinevideo web2 ajax googleholic yahoo add-on windows piracy apple audio mac design email amazon music facebook business itunes lawsuit mobile photo iphone blogging rss downloadsquad online mp3 windowsvista ads digg pc gmail google blog web security most commented on (60 days)itunes alternatives (26)eee pc tips: a crash course in linux (24)get your @live.com email address today (23)verizon fios customers getting searchjacked (16)troubleshooting 101 : how to fix the family computer and save your holiday (16)using thunderbird with gmail imap (12)another one bites the dust: demonoid is dead (12)google hacks helps you find what you're looking for (10)no more blocked attachments (10)install windows live wave 2 a few hours early (8) recent commentsmiro on miro 1.0 released: it's not joost, but it is open sourcealexandre jourdain on excel 2007 can't do math (unless 850 * 77.1 = 100,000)kojo87 on task killer: end pesky windows tasks without opening task managerxaero on no more blocked attachmentsangelg1028 on hot news! 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