What's the best way to import artwork into iTunes?

[jrankin]

I've got hundreds of CDs to rip into iTunes, and I need to know the best way to get the album artwork in, too. Doing it manually through Google or amazon.com is unappealing--any thoughts on the best scripts or programs to get this task done?

[jsw]

iTunes Catalog (http://www.kavasoft.com/iTunesCatalog/) would have been my recommendation, but it's been crashing all the time lately for me - possibly due to iTunes updates. However, it used to work well, and perhaps there's been an update I've missed.

[dotnina]

Clutter (http://www.sprote.com/clutter/) works, though it doesn't work too well for me. It can't find artwork for most of my songs, and I have pretty mainstream songs. Clutter, however, is free. When you're playing a song, it'll automatically hunt down artwork. It also has this neat feature where you can put a picture of the album cover on your desktop, then click on the picture for quick access to songs from that album.

There's Export Artwork (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ipod_itunes/exportartwork.html) as well, but this seems to have a bug where, if you have multiple albums from the same artist, it will only fetch ONE album for all of those songs. This is kind of annoying. It's shareware, so I don't know if that's just a way of annoying you so that you'll buy the software.

[jsw]

If you do it manually, note that you can select the entire album's songs, then import it once to all the songs, instead of one at a time to each song. Of course, you probably already knew that.