iPod album art - please help

I use Album Cover Finder if I need to look up album art. I know that it has a feature to automatically sync album art with your iTunes library, but I've honestly never tried it. I just do everything manually.

Edit: It seems you can only using the syncing feature in the purchased full version. No wonder I've never tried it.

For a while I just did it by hand...googled the album and took the art from it. Earlier today I found this. Quicker but not very accurate. Granted the stuff it missed was obscure European techno, I already had my mainstream stuff done so I have no way to vouch for that. Good site though, it worked as advertised and well for free.

I tried a couple of programs but either they weren't very good or they somehow added 2-3mb per album by adding a 20k jpeg to 10 tracks. I went manual, and although it took a while, it was worth it. Correct art at correct sizes.

I use Clutter.

Err if your using 10.4 then use the amazon art widget.

Just do a search on apples widget pages.

Simply play a track, click on the widget.
It gets the album art and then click apply.

Very simple Very fast.

Album Art - a similar but different problem

I had the same problem with album art, so I just went to google and did it manually - doesn't take that long.

But I've got the problem now where, the album art sits correctly, for each album in I-Tunes. But when it transfers them to the Ipod, it scatters them randomly, where now, I have Snow Patrol's art on The Pixies. And The Pixies album art on Kaiser Chiefs. Do you have any recommendations on how to fix it?

Because I-Tunes IS correct - all the album covers are correct per album. It's only when they're transferred to the Ipod that it screws up.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Shane

MacRumorUser said:

Err if your using 10.4 then use the amazon art widget.

Just do a search on apples widget pages.

Simply play a track, click on the widget.
It gets the album art and then click apply.

Very simple Very fast.

Click to expand...

i like this widget also... easy, fast, effecient...

MacRumorUser said:

Err if your using 10.4 then use the amazon art widget.

Just do a search on apples widget pages.

Simply play a track, click on the widget.
It gets the album art and then click apply.

Very simple Very fast.

Click to expand...

This tool is good for most stuff you might have. I ran into trouble using this where it would bring up something way off base. (For example, it pulled up some classical album for one of my older limp bizkit albums.)

I ended up just sorting everything by album, and doing it manually. It only took a few days doing an hour or so at a time till I got bored. I've got about 6000 items...so it isn't horrible.

I'd say try the amazon thing, and if it works, rock out with it and get it done quick...