This may sound petty, but with 400-some albums, I'm finding that it's a major pain to highlight each album and drag a picture into the album artwork box. I have pictures of all my album artwork saved in a folder with each album, but for some reason iTunes won't allow the artwork to transfer in with the songs. Is there a way around the old drag-and-drop?
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iPod Easier way to import album art?
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I had a program once that went through and automatically got all of the album art for every album, the only problem is that on more obscure albums it made mistakes and got the wrong art, so going back to fix it was just as much work as it would have been to drag and drop the art from Amazon or whatever.
Clutter worked great for me. Do a search on www.versiontracker.com for it.
Program worked great for me!!
Program worked great for me!!
I use Tag & Rename http://www.softpointer.com, and iAlbumArt http://ialbumart.ipod-sync.com/troym said:
Sigh. Yes, my library lives on the Dell.
Neither are anywhere as nice as Clutter.
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prostuff1 said:
Although I don't think (could be wrong) it's fully automatic. You have to go through each album and click "add art". But it gets the art automatically from amazon, and you can confirm it's the right cover before adding.
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I went through and did this last night. Spent over 5 hours dragging and dropping in album artwork from amazon. Now that it's up to date I can't imagine it'll be that big of a problem.
I went through and did this last night. Spent over 5 hours dragging and dropping in album artwork from amazon. Now that it's up to date I can't imagine it'll be that big of a problem.
balamw said:
Can you use Clutter to import all album art at one time or do you have to play each song and then import it?
Unless you have thousands of albumns, why not just drag and drop? By the time you get done finding and testing all the options it might have been quicker.
on a related note
Does importing the album covers take up a great deal of space? For instance, I drug in some 400x400 .jpgs does iTunes parry it down to a smaller file size when it cuts down the size of the actual .jpg?
Does importing the album covers take up a great deal of space? For instance, I drug in some 400x400 .jpgs does iTunes parry it down to a smaller file size when it cuts down the size of the actual .jpg?
As far as I have been able to tell it includes the file verbatim, i.e. if you make it a 1MB image, the file size goes up by 1M. I just tried it. I added a 720kB image to a 10.3MB file and the file grew to 11.4 MB!zakthemack said:
I try to keep my images to ~50KB.
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