As you may be aware, you can't sign in to iTunes anymore with iTunes 10 (at least not as far as I can tell) - are there any alternative solutions to grab album art on PPC? I'm using an iMac as a music server and it kinda sucks not having artwork.
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iTunes 10 Album Artwork alternative/solution?
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I don't recall ever having to be signed in to the iTunes store with my Apple ID just to get artwork.
Can't you just select songs and then go to File>Library>Get Artwork?
Like you, I want, if not need sleeve art for everything in my library, because I also deejay and I’m highly visually oriented in how I locate music. I curate my own library from hard media sources (CDs, transcribing from vinyl in high-bitrate, and so on). I also use iTunes 10.6.3 across all my Macs, save for my solo G3.
What I do is more manually involved than acquiring artwork from Apple, but it works: I copy/paste correct artwork from sources like Discogs and resources like 45cat-dot-com (which also has secondary areas for CDs, albums, and 12-inch singles).
It’s not as automatic as what you’re accustomed to, but this also gives me the fine-tuned ability to select the correct artwork for certain releases whose sleeve art differed, depending on where it was issued (e.g., a European issue I may own may use different sleeve art than what was released for North America, which is what iTunes artwork might favour, seeing how I’m located in Canada), or when (noteworthy for titles which were re-issued, and which use different sleeve art or period-incorrect sleeve art as part of the re-issue re-packaging/re-promotion).
Unfortunately, no:
I was hoping to not have to do this! It's what I did before iTunes had the album art function and I'm quite used to it, but it was nice to just press the button and fix anything that was a bit weird afterward. Shame really
This is what I do too - however, never understood why adding a 10kb thumbnail to a track can increase it's size by nearly 1Mb in some cases?
My guess is it’s the way Apple allocates ID3 metadata space, as containers, for embedded graphics — the container being a set size either per-image, or for all metadata-embedded images. I used to include additional art like sleeve reverse and disc/vinyl label in that metadata, but dialed it back to just one image to make sure sleeve art display played nice across different, non-iTunes players.
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I was hoping to not have to do this! It's what I did before iTunes had the album art function and I'm quite used to it, but it was nice to just press the button and fix anything that was a bit weird afterward. Shame really
Real talk, tho: do you really think Apple’s iTunes store is gonna have vapourwave and plunderphonic metadata for artists like… マクロスMACROSS 82-99?
I've always left the extras in the album folder, some of which are substantial - the Bedroom Cassette Masters series that I appeared on come with 200Mb pdf "booklets."
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750 CDs ripped to my iTunes / Music library and I can't think of one single album where I didn't import the album art myself. For me, just like you, it's very important. Which is why I took direct control of the process right from the start, rather than let some 'bot' dictate the album art for my ripped CDs.
I use easyTag (can be build from Macports) to edit the tags and use sacad (smart automatic cover art downloader) for the actual cover, it only download front cover witch is perfect for me. I use to use both from linux but I suppouse that it will work on MacOs X or macOs since it only depends on python 3.6 or better.
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