iTunes Mystery

[Michael73]

In cover flow view the default artwork for my movies is useless. I've been going through the tedious process of right-clicking on each title, 'Getting info,' going to the "artwork" tab and manually adding in the dvd artwork for each title. If anyone knows a faster way in iTunes, please let me know since I have like 300 titles to go.

Anyway, the mystery is that in about 1 or 2 out of 10 cases the artwork tab is grayed out (as is lyrics, which I don't care about). Why? And, can it be un-grayed so I can add the artwork for it? How?

 

[GGJstudios]

Did you try searching for "artwork" in iTunes Help?

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[Michael73]

Did you try searching for "artwork" in iTunes Help?

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Yep. That didn't work. It searches for album artwork but doesn't find or add any artwork for the movies.

I also tried selecting all the movies, right-clicking and choosing "Get Album Artwork" and it says, "Processing Album Artwork" but then never shows up in cover flow view or anywhere else I can find.

I wonder if this is related to the fact that when I add albums and movies to my library that I don't import them into the library itself, I only reference their location on a separate drive?!?

 

[GGJstudios]

I wonder if this is related to the fact that when I add albums and movies to my library that I don't import them into the library itself, I only reference their location on a separate drive?!?

No, it shouldn't matter where the items are located. It may be that iTunes treats artwork for movies differently than it does music. Personally, I prefer the manual method of adding artwork, as the artwork that iTunes automatically downloads is of lower quality. I know it's time consuming, but I've manually added artwork to my library of more than 1,800 albums and the end-result is well worth it to me.

 

[Kwill]

Perhaps one of Doug's Scripts might work for you.

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=embedart