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How to paste cover art into iTunes 7 art database
Authored by: tjfarrell on Sep 26, '06 03:15:34PM

This approach was working for me - at least it quickly adds art to all songs in an Album - I don't know if it is doing it efficiently storage wise.

First - select the middle button from the set of view buttons next to the search window (top right of itunes window)

Next - get into browse mode - this can be done with the button with the "eye" icon, bottom right next to the eject button.

Your screen should now be split with "Artist" and "Album" columns across the top and selected song details at the bottom. In the top, select All Artists on the left side (since some songs on the one Album may have different artists). Then select the Album on the top right.

Now you should have all songs for that album listed at the bottom. The may be split over multiple segments if multiple artists are involved (and they are not marked as a compilation).

Select all the songs from the Album. Then invoke "Get Info" (Cmd-I). When (if) it asks if you if you really want to edit information for multiple items, select "Yes".

The multiple item "Get Info" dialog will now appear. It has an "Artwork" box. Drag or past your artwork into that box. If the album has multiple artists - you may want to consider marking it as a compilation and setting the "Album Artist" to the main artist, if any - to ensure the browser shows it as one album. Then select "Ok".

iTunes will work for a little bit and then you are done.

When you sync it with your ipod it will have to update all the changed songs.


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T. Farrell



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How to paste cover art into iTunes 7 art database
Authored by: Morphie on Sep 26, '06 04:00:37PM

This "works" but that is how cover art was previously, and as stated above it adds 200k-500k per song and eats up your harddrive (and iPod for that matter)

That being said, I am really looking forward to someone figuring out how to store something in the iTunes database. I think I'll take a look at it myself and see if I can figure it out, as I have lots of "not on iTunes" cd's that I'd love to have cover art for without using up lots of space to do so.



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