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Fix iTunes 7 art for video/audio with identical names Apps
Album art in iTunes 7 is full of surprises. I found that if you create a video from a DVD (with a tool such as Handbrake) then add it to your iTunes library, you may have an artwork problem if the DVD has the same name as an album.

I ripped U2's Rattle and Hum DVD today to iPod format, then added it to my iTunes library. It showed up in the Movies library, but, even after I added the DVD cover as artwork, the iTunes Cover Flow display was showing the CD album art (I also have the CD in my library.) I guess iTunes is simply looking at the album name to determine which graphic from its local cache (~/Music -> iTunes -> Album Artwork) to display. Even though the art panel at the lower left of the iTunes window showed the correct art, the Cover Flow graphic was incorrect.

The fix is simple: just change the album's name. In this case, I changed "Rattle and Hum" to "Rattle and Hum " (note the trailing space). The correct art now displays in the Cover Flow view.
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Fix iTunes 7 art for video/audio with identical names
Authored by: d3laws on Sep 27, '06 10:36:59AM

I got another surprise when trying to add cover art to videos. I had some of the kids videos I had earlier ripped I now wanted to place in iTunes. They came up with default album art from the first frame of the movie...not very interesting, nor informative for the kids.
When I tried to paste in artwork as usual for sound files in some cases it worked and then it started to corrupt the video file. I now have to rip the DVDs again.
Has anyone come across this, or have a better solution for replacing the default artwork?



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Fix iTunes 7 art for video/audio with identical names
Authored by: jomy on Sep 27, '06 02:30:25PM
I ripped U2's Rattle and Hum DVD today to iPod format, then added it to my iTunes library.
Can I get a copy of that?

Just kidding : )

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