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Grab iTunes artwork for any song in the music store
Authored by: allanmarcus on Sep 15, '06 11:42:45AM

I think iTunes 7 doesn't store the art in the tacks; it stores it separately and is dynamically linked based on the Album name. This means you don't store the art multiple times (once for every track).



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Well, this is a little annoying
Authored by: lionel77 on Sep 15, '06 04:11:33PM

Just confirmed this, the album art you get through iTunes 7's "Get Album Artwork" feature is indeed not written into the actual music files (unlike the covers you put into iTunes manually). I think this is really a retarded idea. Those covers from the iTunes Store are something in the order of 60-70k, so it really does not make much difference in terms of file size. Not embedding the covers, however, can cause a lot of inconveniences when you are moving tracks between machines.

Fortunately, there is a relatively simple way to manually embed the images: just do right-click->copy on the cover preview field, select all the tracks that belong to the album, and then do another right-click on the cover preview field and choose 'paste'. Voila, now the image is written into the tag of the actual music files on your hard drive.



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Small correction
Authored by: lionel77 on Sep 16, '06 12:55:11PM
just do right-click->copy on the cover preview field, select all the tracks that belong to the album, and then do another right-click on the cover preview field and choose 'paste'.
Actually, just pasting it into the cover preview field is not sufficient (if the old cover is still in there). Instead you want invoke a "Get Info" dialog (via command+i) after you've selected all the tracks and paste the cover into the artwork box there. Sorry for this inaccuracy.

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