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Adding cover art to iTunes4 the easy way
Authored by: scribbleed on Apr 29, '03 03:58:20PM

Here's the best way to use Clutter:

1. Make a Smart playlist to show just Track Number 1. The playlist will then show all the 1st song of all your available albums.
2. With Clutter running, play the songs.
3. Clutter will try to get the album cover and save it in ~/Library/Images/com.sprote.clutter/CDs.
4. Some covers might not be found; some wrongly saved if there are more than one cover found (you have to choose manually); some not saved even when found (don't know why but very few).
5. You can let it run through all the playlist, such as overnight and with luck, a majority of your albums will have the cover jpgs, and hopefully the correct ones.

To save the cover with your itunes file, choose Library, then choose your album. Ensure that you Edit/Show Artwork (Command-G), so that the cover space will appear on the bottom left. Select the first song, then Command-A to select all the songs. Drag the jpg from Finder to the space and it will add the picture to the songs.



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Roundabout way to add album art using Konfabulator "iTunesy"
Authored by: robmoggach on Apr 29, '03 05:27:46PM

A bit convoluted but for those of you with Konfabulator, I use
the following approach to extract the album artwork. The
Konfabulator widget iTunesy displays Album artwork for the
current album. If you look at the Package Contents for the
widget, there's a cache folder within which is a file called
"myWebImage". This is a jpeg image of the current track. Drag
it to the album artwork box in iTunes or copy it out of the folder
and rename it. Obviously, make sure you have the "now
playing" option displayed...
Nice because, iTunesy does the searching for you. (worked for
about 75% of my albums...)

Maybe the author of the widget or someone else could post an
applescript to do this automatically?

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robert moggach



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