Now that both the iPod nano and regular iPods have color screens to display album cover artwork, I decided to learn how to add cover art to my iTunes collection. Songs purchased at the iTunes Music Store already come with art, but not those ripped from CD or purchased at eMusic (or elsewhere.)
I had fooled around with doing this once or twice before, but didn’t find it intuitive. So to save you the trouble of figuring it for yourself, here’s a short tutorial.
1) Open iTunes and select an entire album (using the shift or control key to select multiple songs) and then right click to open the “Get Info” dialog box.
2) Open a browser window with the album cover art you want, and click and drag the image over to iTunes. Hover over the iTunes button in your task bar and the “Multiple Song Information” box will pop open.
3) Now simply release your mouse over the empty Artwork panel and click OK. Then respond “Yes” to “Are you sure you want to change the artwork for multiple items?” question.
Thanks so much hun ^.^ I hated that boring music note x
Thank you so much for this info! Helped me a lot, beats having to download a load of files that supposedly ‘does it automatically for you’
Thank you for helping me fine tune my husband’s new Nano in time for Christmas!!!
Awesome, thanks a lot. I have to admit I was quite skeptical at first, but it works well.
Poor li’l Ziggy. It must be a terrible existence being exponentially smarter than everybody else.
Thanks for the info, Barbara. It used to be simpler in earlier iterations of iTunes, with the “Drag Album Art Here” box in the main window, but I couldn’t figure it out for v.9.
Ziggy, I agree we’re being dumbed down, but you are a tool.
yes, thank you, this is not new information to me – i think anyone would be able to figure this out on their own, but im not disappointed as i know most people are complete idiots.
i have a problem, and since the internet is flooded with these BASIC tutorials, i wondered if anyone writing them had any idea of how to troubleshoot a real problem.
i go into the multiple item information box, i double click the artwork space, and select the .jpg, it displays it, and then when i press ‘ok’ nothing happens in the main library. this doesnt happen for all, or even most albums, just a very few.
no offense to the mouth breathers that didnt know about adding their own album art, i know some people are simply too involved with makeovers and wondering why machines cant be “smarter”.
“omg omg omg!!1! humanity is slowly becoming completely retarded, but i need my hilary duffZ cds crappy art!!”
OMG!
Thankyou so so much! It worked for me, because i had album artwork i didn’t want, and i could delete it and replace it with artwork that i did want!
hey i cant find theget info bar help !! thanks alii x
It won’t save! And I don’t know why! Even if I try to change the genre. Help?
It worked fine for me. Thank you so much for sharing this information!