[vapspwi]

I haven't really been following this topic since immediately after iTunes 7 first came out, so apologies if this is something that's already been discussed into the ground. A quick Google search returned mostly stuff from a year or two ago.

I like the way iTunes can automatically fetch album art and link it to all the tracks on an album from a database, without having to embed the artwork into (and increase the filesize of) every song.

Last I checked, though, there was no way to import your own scanned album covers in that same way. You had to embed the artwork into the song files, which I don't want to do.

Has there been any change in this - a change in iTunes, or some app that's been developed, that will let you manually associate album art the same way that iTunes does it automatically? This seems like a rather obvious thing to do, so I'm surprised that the capability isn't already there.

Is there some mechanism by which these kinds of "feature requests" can be submitted to Apple?

Thanks for any info.

JRjr

[kjbee]

you can pick the art of itunes can't find it.

in itunes, ctrl-click on whatever song, and go to GET INFO. click on the ARTWORK tab. from there, can you drag whatever file you want (internet, something you scanned, picture of your cat) to use as album art. If you hi-lite a whole album/group of songs and do this, you will associate that artwork with all of those songs at once.

hope that helps! i know i hate having a song show up without art - i wish their "no art" icon just looked like a CD in a case or something instead of the funky music note.

[vapspwi]

Originally Posted by kjbee 

you can pick the art of itunes can't find it.

in itunes, ctrl-click on whatever song, and go to GET INFO. click on the ARTWORK tab. from there, can you drag whatever file you want (internet, something you scanned, picture of your cat) to use as album art. If you hi-lite a whole album/group of songs and do this, you will associate that artwork with all of those songs at once.

Unfortunately, that's the thing that I don't want to do - that method embeds the image into each song. So if you put a 50k image in each of the 10 songs on an album, you've used half a meg more storage, which isn't a lot, but it does add up.

When iTunes finds artwork for an album, it stores a single copy of the artwork and just creates a pointer that associates each song on the album with the artwork. Using the example above, the image would show up for all 10 songs on the album, but only one copy of the image would be stored, so you'd only use 50k of storage. That's a lot more efficient.

What I'd like to be able to do is manually associate images with albums and have the images stored using the same scheme that iTunes uses for images it finds automatically.

JRjr

[kjbee]

ahh i see. well then, bump, because I hadn't thought of that excess storage issue.

[frankthetank966]

why does it take so long to get the album work?

[all2ofme]

Has anyone else noticed that the stuff that gets added when you use "Get Album Artwork" is lovely and crisp? It's better than anything I've made (or downloaded) myself by a mile, regardless of the res.

It's odd, though - if you take the Apple-supplied art out of iTunes, clear the art in iTunes and then put it back in, it looks like crap in comparison. I'm trying to work out what's happening - anyone else got any ideas?