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dougbraz

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When I click on this (iTunes 10.6 currently), it not only tries to find some missing album covers, but also changes some that already there (painstakingly copy pasted from Safari). Is this correct - or how can I nullify this alteration of existing covers?
Thanks
 
dougbraz said:
When I click on this (iTunes 10.6 currently), it not only tries to find some missing album covers, but also changes some that already there (painstakingly copy pasted from Safari). Is this correct - or how can I nullify this alteration of existing covers?
Thanks
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At one point I used that feature quite some time ago and found that it changed a Led Zeppelin cover to a Dread Zeppelin (yes the cover band) album art. From then on I never trusted it and always downloaded art from the web. The only art I get from iTunes is that which comes with the songs from the iTunes music store.
 
GGJstudios said:
I prefer manually adding artwork of higher quality than iTunes provides. Album Art Exchange is a good source of high-quality album artwork.
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I also prefer manual artwork.

In addition to Album Art Exchange, I use Discogs.com. Admittedly, AAE has better-quality artwork, but Discogs.com has plenty of alternate artwork-- which is a lifesaver for those of us with electronic/dance music imported from Europe or elsewhere that has different cover art from the USA release.
 
Manually is the way to go. I simply do google image searches for my artwork. I try for at least 500 x 500 pixels and always make sure that the image is square (same pixels wide as high). Looks much nicer when everything is nice and square. But maybe I'm just anal.
 
Yup

Manual is the way to go..Shoulda learned that the FIRST time...
Thanks for the feedback. Will give Album Art Exchange a shot. I used to google mostly.
 
Instead of clicking on the Advanced menu command and updating my whole library (yipes) I always right click and only download one album at a time.
 
the most important thing to note about the 'Get album artwork' is that it doesn't add the artwork as metadata to the file which means the artwork will not display on non apple products and also makes backing up the files (with artwork) difficult.

whereas manually adding the artwork embeds said artwork in the metadata, works on everything and backing up the files are as simple as copying the file to your backup drive.
 
androiphone said:
the most important thing to note about the 'Get album artwork' is that it doesn't add the artwork as metadata to the file which means the artwork will not display on non apple products and also makes backing up the files (with artwork) difficult.

whereas manually adding the artwork embeds said artwork in the metadata, works on everything and backing up the files are as simple as copying the file to your backup drive.
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There is a simple script from Doug's AppleScripts that will embed the artwork for you, though, for those who like the simplicity of just letting iTunes do the work but still need the artwork to be portable.

jW
 
I use the find art work under advance on iTunes and it worked great for me. I added some albums that I have and I did not wanted to see the music symbol on my iPod or iPhone.
 
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