iTunes & WMP question

[Rÿcher]

I'll be getting a iTouch in a couple months and downloaded iTunes. How do I tell iTunes that I already have the album art on my computer for each respective song/album?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'll be getting a iTouch in a couple months and downloaded iTunes. How do I tell iTunes that I already have the album art on my computer for each respective song/album?

How did you attach the album art to the songs without using iTunes?

 

[Rÿcher]

When I stuck the CD in, somehow Windows knew what the album art already looked like or when I bought a song or two from amazon or elsewhere, album art came with it. When I play it with WMP, you can see the album art but when I try to associate it with the song or album on iTunes, I can't fund the image and I can't get iTunes to find it either.

see?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Here's a good site for album art:

Album Art Exchange

Failing that, I suppose Amazon.com would work. They've got art for pretty much every CD they sell.

 

[Rÿcher]

right but I've already got it on my confuser. I need to know how to let iTunes know they exist on my confuser so I don't have to upload them individually.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

right but I've already got it on my confuser. I need to know how to let iTunes know they exist on my confuser so I don't have to upload them individually.

I don't think that's possible. IIRC, when Windows Media Player is playing the songs, it's grabbing the album art on the fly; the art isn't being stored within the song file.

 

[MetroKid]

Find the album art file ( .jpg most likely)

Select the song in iTunes.

Right-click on the song and select "Get Info"

Click on the "Album Artwork" tab

Drag or paste the art work into the window provided.

Click "OK"

you know have album art associated with that song in iTunes.

You may also use this method for more than one song at at time by selecting more than one song.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I don't think that's possible. IIRC, when Windows Media Player is playing the songs, it's grabbing the album art on the fly; the art isn't being stored within the song file.

Some mp3s store the artwork inside the file. If you've ripped an album using Windows Media Player, the artwork is stored in the folder as hidden jpeg files.

 

[HaplessCrewman]

Here's another way you can get album artwork into iTunes.

Click on the Advanced tab.

Go down to the Get Album Artwork tab.

iTunes will search online for the artwork which matches what is in your music library.

Be aware - iTunes copies everything into it's own folders.

Even if you tell it where you have pre-existing artwork, if you drag it into iTunes, iTunes will copy it.

Hope this helps!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ You have to have an iTunes Store account to do that.

 

[Chaos Descending]

I use Easy CD-DA Extractor to rip MP3s. It has a feature to download album art from AMAZON and attaches the album cover to the MP3 file as metadata.