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RIHNOSAUR From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 362 posts, RR: 1
Posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 1028 times:

Hello,

I recently downloaded I-tunes 7 and I am still trying to get used to it (not an avid user by any means). Its the first time I have used it so bear with me.

It seems this version lets you create (and view) a list of the album covers corresponding to the music/albums you have on your local list. I must tell you though that I have no intention on buying music from i-tunes, the only reason I used it is to be able to input my music library/cd's into the my ipod (a birthday gift from my wife).

So when I try to "get the album art work" itunes warns me that in order to get it that I need to create an account with Itunes (which I do not care for). However I actually do have some images (electronic versions of the covers) of the albums I have......so the question is: is there a way to import these images or save them in a particular folder where I tunes will use it to display on the album cover view???

I figured many here on A net would have a good answer for this...

thanks for your advice in advance.....

PS...if what I want to do is not possible then ......that is lame .......I hate it when they try to make you get an account or buy stuff .....

thanks!!!

particles and waves are the same thing, but who knows what that thing is...

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Klaus From Germany, joined Jul 2001, 20861 posts, RR: 55
Reply 1, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1019 times:

Under MacOS you can simply cut & paste the artwork through the clipboard. Preferably select all titles of an album, invoke "Get Info" and paste the image into the artwork field. That stores it into all tracks of this album.

Very practical as well is the application Clutter by Sprote Rsrch. which makes it even easier to get the cover art for existing files.

Cabso1 From Canada, joined May 2005, 502 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1014 times:

You could try dragging the image to the album artwork viewer. Works for me on my mac.

QR332 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 1008 times:

I've used iTunes under Windows back when I used to use a PC, and you can just copy/paste artwork.

To make life easier, instead of using Get Info everytime just go to View and click on Show Artwork. All you have to do once this is done is copy the image you want and paste it into the white box in the bottom left corner of iTunes.

RIHNOSAUR From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 362 posts, RR: 1
Reply 4, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 970 times:

hi,

Thanks for the replies but unfortunately I am using the windows vista operating system, so although i have tried, I do not seem to be able to just copy and paste like you guys say you can with mac OS

Quoting QR332 (Reply 3):
go to View and click on Show Artwork

I am using itunes 7.... so when I try this and try to paste, it won't let me paste...It is very likely I am doing something very dumb..but could it be some sort of setting..

ahhh help......sorry every one...

thanks for the help...

particles and waves are the same thing, but who knows what that thing is...

AC888YOW From Canada, joined Jan 2005, 510 posts, RR: 1
Reply 5, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 952 times:

Paying for album artwork is just silly. Even if they charge a penny, I can't believe people actually pay for it. Here's one way of getting it for free: images.google.com

When you find the image you want, you should be able to directly drag it from your browser window into iTunes (bottom left corner of the iTunes window). If that doesn't work, save the image to your computer. Then you can go to the song properties and set the album artwork to the picture you just saved.

Klaus From Germany, joined Jul 2001, 20861 posts, RR: 55
Reply 6, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 950 times:

Quoting AC888YOW (Reply 5):
Paying for album artwork is just silly.

The album artwork from iTunes doesn't cost anything.

DeltaGator From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 6341 posts, RR: 16
Reply 7, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 946 times:

Quoting RIHNOSAUR (Thread starter):
So when I try to "get the album art work" itunes warns me that in order to get it that I need to create an account with Itunes (which I do not care for).

Just create the account and don't use it. I don't remember if they want you to add in a credit card but even if they do turn off 1-click buying so someone doesn't get sneaky on you and purchase something while your back is turned. It will also keep you from the urge to buy something you don't want.

Seriously, they don't charge for album artwork. Once you creat an account you can find the menu option for get album artwork and iTunes will go out and match the album name you have and if they carry the album it will update the file with the artwork.

Pretty simple...free...and worth saving time on adding it all in manually.

One caveat...if the iTunes store doesn't have the album (see the entire Beatles collection) they won't have the artwork. You also have to have the album name exactly the same as what it is in the iTunes store. A few warnings but still worth the help.

Quoting RIHNOSAUR (Thread starter):
is there a way to import these images or save them in a particular folder where I tunes will use it to display on the album cover view???

I've had trouble with that from time to time as well under Windows. Try playing those songs and see if the artwork shows up in the display.

For a while the artwork didn't show up when I copied it in. Then it did. And now it looks like the newest version (7.4.1) doesn't show me the artwork again until I play the song or file.

Quoting RIHNOSAUR (Reply 4):
I am using itunes 7.... so when I try this and try to paste, it won't let me paste...It is very likely I am doing something very dumb..but could it be some sort of setting..

See above. It appears to be a bug of some sort within the Windows version of iTunes.

Another thing to try is select all the songs for an album (CTRL-Click them) and then get the properties. A different properties screen will appear that will show a small window where you can paste the artwork and apply it to all the selected songs.

Quoting AC888YOW (Reply 5):
Paying for album artwork is just silly. Even if they charge a penny, I can't believe people actually pay for it.

Get your facts straight and don't spread misinformation. You don't pay for album artwork from iTunes.

"If you can't delight in the misery of others then you don't deserve to be a college football fan."

RIHNOSAUR From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 362 posts, RR: 1
Reply 8, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 933 times:

Thanks to all for the responses so far

Quoting DeltaGator (Reply 7):
I've had trouble with that from time to time as well under Windows. Try playing those songs and see if the artwork shows up in the display.

When you say "that" it reads like you believe I know what folder to put the music in.....However sadly I don't, so I guess I need to start by finding out where is that folder......I guess I was trying to say that I do NOT know where to put the images so that Itunes can link them to the songs...do you know where they should go.??

I really don't mind doing it manually....I can do it every so often during weekends one album at a time...its just that I don't know how to do it...

The whole dragging and dropping does NOT work in vista.. (or at least in vista + itunes7) ...I have tried it multiple times....there must be a different way...

I do have to try out the going to the songs properties... do I just right click the song in the library list to go to the song properties or do I have to invoke a menu up top (while the song is highlighted)...sorry ..I feel completely stupid for asking this...but I just don't have the patience with Itunes I think...

thanks DeltaGator.....

cheers

particles and waves are the same thing, but who knows what that thing is...

DeltaGator From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 6341 posts, RR: 16
Reply 9, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 927 times:

Quoting RIHNOSAUR (Reply 8):
The whole dragging and dropping does NOT work in vista.. (or at least in vista + itunes7) ...I have tried it multiple times....there must be a different way...

I've never tried Drag and Drop so you might be on to something there. What I do is get the properties for the file. Right click on the song in the Library to get the properties sheet for that file. Go to the artwork tab and paste in the artwork. You may be able to drag it in here but I don't know since I've not tried it. I find the artwork I want to put in there (usually can find album covers on Amazon) and copy it from that webpage and then right click and paste it into the field. You may or may not see it there but after you press OK you should then be able to play the music file and see the artwork in the display at the bottom left of the iTunes window.

Sign up for an account and save yourself a fair amount of time copying files into the properties sheet of a file or files. I have something like 16,000 files on my iPod and using iTunes to get the artwork saved a lot of time. I still had to go manually edit many of them but it was far less than doing it all manually.

"If you can't delight in the misery of others then you don't deserve to be a college football fan."

IFEMaster From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 10, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 924 times:

Just use TuneSleeve; it takes most if not all of the work (searching for artwork, copying and pasting etc.) out of adding artwork:

http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=34113

AC888YOW From Canada, joined Jan 2005, 510 posts, RR: 1
Reply 11, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 912 times:

Quoting Klaus (Reply 6):
The album artwork from iTunes doesn't cost anything.

Gotcha. I've never had to use that feature on iTunes because I always elected to find it myself. When the original poster said

Quoting RIHNOSAUR (Thread starter):
I hate it when they try to make you get an account or buy stuff .....

it lead me to believe that they actually charged for these images so I tried to save him a couple of bucks since he is obviously not a computer expert.

Quoting DeltaGator (Reply 7):
Get your facts straight and don't spread misinformation. You don't pay for album artwork from iTunes.

Looks like I pissed off the iTunes police. The trouble is that I never said they charged for it, did I? I only wondered why anyone would actually pay for such things if indeed they did charge a fee.

So get your accusations straight and don't go around being a jagoff.

DeltaGator From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 6341 posts, RR: 16
Reply 12, posted (5 years 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 905 times:

Quoting AC888YOW (Reply 11):
Looks like I pissed off the iTunes police. The trouble is that I never said they charged for it, did I? I only wondered why anyone would actually pay for such things if indeed they did charge a fee.

Your quote was as follows..."Paying for album artwork is just silly. Even if they charge a penny, I can't believe people actually pay for it. Here's one way of getting it for free: images.google.com"

You are assuming that they charge for it based on misinterpretation of the question on your part because you didn't read for comprehension in the original question or the first responses. No iTunes Police present in my house. Perhaps in Klaus' place but not mine.

Quoting AC888YOW (Reply 11):
So get your accusations straight and don't go around being a jagoff.

Get your facts straight and you won't be accused of spreading misinformation on something you apparently didn't understand from the get-go.

Lighten up Francis. You're taking it too personally. I meant no disrespect though I can see how it might have come across that way.

[Edited 2007-09-10 21:52:10]

"If you can't delight in the misery of others then you don't deserve to be a college football fan."

RIHNOSAUR From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 362 posts, RR: 1
Reply 13, posted (5 years 8 months 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 797 times:

So coming back to the topic at hand:

Is it possible to drag and drop using Itunes 7 + vista or not...

I certainly can't do it in my set up ...could anyone confirm this...or am I the only one with Itunes 7 and vista Here (not trying to throw a hisy fit just wondering)??? or am I not using itunes correctly(maybe some stupid setting)???

In summary, is the only way to get artwork : to sign up in Itunes (I understand that I do not need to necessarily buy music to get the artwork)

cheers

particles and waves are the same thing, but who knows what that thing is...

Klaus From Germany, joined Jul 2001, 20861 posts, RR: 55
Reply 14, posted (5 years 8 months 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 785 times:

Quoting RIHNOSAUR (Reply 13):
I certainly can't do it in my set up ...could anyone confirm this...or am I the only one with Itunes 7 and vista Here (not trying to throw a hisy fit just wondering)??? or am I not using itunes correctly(maybe some stupid setting)???

I can't say, really... under MacOS it works both with drag&drop and through the clipboard; There are also additional utilities which help you grab covers from Amazon or other sources (also for free as from the iTunes Store).

[Edited 2007-09-24 19:56:42]

DeltaGator From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 6341 posts, RR: 16
Reply 15, posted (5 years 8 months 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 771 times:

If you follow my instructions in Reply 9 about copying and pasting pictures you'll be good to go. Copy the pictures from Amazon, your PC, or anywhere and paste them into the properties for the file or multiple files. It's really quite easy and apparently can be made even easier if using additional tools that have been mentioned by others.

"If you can't delight in the misery of others then you don't deserve to be a college football fan."

DeltaGator From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 6341 posts, RR: 16
Reply 16, posted (5 years 8 months 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 744 times:

For what it's worth I am not allowed to drag and drop artwork onto either the Now Playing section of iTunes or the actual song name itself in the library window above. I tried it with both music and podcasts and no luck. I get the circle with the slash through it denying me. I would think this would be a limitation of iTunes and not XP (which I am using) or Vista which you are using.

That said, go back and look at reply 9 from me to get things done. Sign up for an account and then go to the menus at the top and select Advanced and then select Get Album Artwork from that menu. For stuff that is not in the iTunes shop or you have the album name wrong you can do the cut and paste like I detailed out. You can also use the various tools that have been suggested though I'm guessing having the right album name will help with those as well.

Good luck. It took me a couple of hours one night but I got my catalog all fixed up with the right artwork and I have about 11,000 songs to deal with.

"If you can't delight in the misery of others then you don't deserve to be a college football fan."

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