[SirCastor]

Has anyone else run into this on their iPod? I've got a 4G 20gb, and I've bought some songs on iTunes, obviously. But I have songs that were in my collection before iTMS even existed, and every once in a while, one song has album art included with it. I didn't put it there. How did it get there?

Anyone know?

[ghporter]

I'm sitting at my PC now, but I think this will apply to the Mac version of iTunes as well-Look at the help file for "art." It gives a very nice explanation of how to add art to songs or albums.

Adding artwork to songs
Most of the music you buy from the iTunes Music Store comes with its own artwork. You can also add artwork to songs in your library.


You can add any type of image file that can be read by QuickTime (for example, BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, or Photoshop).


Note: You can't add artwork to WAV files. To add artwork to a song saved as WAV, convert the song to another format and then add the artwork.

To add artwork to one song, click the Artwork button in the lower-left corner of the iTunes window, then select the song that you want to add artwork to in your library or a playlist. Drag a still image file to the artwork box. (You can also copy and paste the image.)
To add artwork to each song in your library or a playlist, select a song in the list and choose File > Get Info. In the Artwork pane, click Add to add art to the current song (or drag the art file from your desktop to the artwork box), then click Next to add art to the next song in the list, and so on.
To add more than one piece of art to a song, drag more than one image to the same artwork box.
To add the same artwork to multiple songs, press the Control key and click each song you want to add art to, then choose File > Get Info. Drag the artwork that you want to add to each of the selected songs from your desktop to the artwork box.

The image you added appears when the song is selected or playing. You can also click the artwork to see it larger and in its own window.

I've found that there are a lot of places that host usable album/CD cover art-I've copied a few covers for my collection from sites in various places.

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally Posted by SirCastor

Has anyone else run into this on their iPod? I've got a 4G 20gb, and I've bought some songs on iTunes, obviously. But I have songs that were in my collection before iTMS even existed, and every once in a while, one song has album art included with it. I didn't put it there. How did it get there?

Anyone know?

What were they encoded with? The album art is stored in the song file itself. If you downloaded these songs from somewhere, I guess it's possible that they had album art attached to them that wasn't visible to you before iTunes got those capabilities.

[SirCastor]

I guess that might be in SpaceMonkey. The I never heard of tossing in Album art prior to iTunes. Some of these songs I've had since 2001ish.
Another thing, these aren't scans. They're high quality pictures, just like all the Apple ones. I figure they could have come off of Amazon, but they match the dimensions of the Apple things as well. Like I said. They're scattered. Ghostbusters, by Ray Parker Junior. Endangered Love from Veggie Tales, where as other stuff by the same artist has nothing.