September 12, 2005
Adding Album Cover Art to iTunes
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 colllection. 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.
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Posted by Barbara J. Feldman at September 12, 2005 12:38 PM | Comments (19)
instead of dragging you can double-click in the artwork area to pop-up file selector dialog
Posted by: dink on June 25, 2009 9:02 AMTHX so MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: mohak on June 1, 2009 10:42 AMthank you soooo much!!!!! it was really irritating not having art for some cds.
Posted by: casey on May 17, 2009 9:45 AMthx a million I just wish itunes was smart enough to be able to get the cover art itself even if you don't purchase it through itunes even when all or most of the meda data is there...
Posted by: dan on May 14, 2009 9:30 AMTHANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH! this worked for many of the tasks I had previously done... one by one. I have many opera CDs and frequently the genre is wrong or the Itunes puts a different title on the 2nd disc. This and the artwork tip has saved me hours already!!!! thank you. Mille Grazie!!!!!!
Posted by: Susan on April 7, 2009 10:49 PMThankz A Million, this really works no jokes!!!
Posted by: Cardo on March 26, 2009 5:56 PMthnx it worked
just used google images
OMG THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!! OWE U SO MUCH FOR THAT INFO!
Posted by: Brenden on January 11, 2009 8:40 PMomg thnks it actually works and you don't even have to download anything!!!
Thank you so much! I couldn't have figured this out with your advice!
Posted by: Matthew on December 25, 2008 7:36 AMtry allmusic.com cant think of a better resource.
Posted by: none on September 28, 2008 1:40 PMI figured out a workaround to get album images thanks to Nick's recommendation of http://albumart.org/
Find the image you want and save it as a JPG onto your desktop. I then opened Word and inserted the image into a document so that i could copy the image then pasted it into the "Get Info" section as the original poster describe. On the little info tab that pops up, select album art and then right click to allow for the paste. Worked great!
Posted by: Morgan on September 7, 2008 6:23 PMIt do not work with IE 7, but works fine on Firefox 2.
Thanks !
Posted by: Fernando Monteiro on February 10, 2008 3:19 PMIt do not work with IE 7, but works fine com Firefox 2.
Thanks !
Posted by: Fernando Monteiro on February 10, 2008 3:19 PMMaybe this is new, but you can drag + drop images from websites! No need to actually download the files, and it seems to work with ease. Where I had problems with local files, I just found the same image online and dragged the image from Firefox into the appropriate iTunes field. I'm running WinXP and iTunes 7.5.0.2.0, if you were having troubles.
Posted by: sasquatch on January 3, 2008 10:50 PMyeah i've tried this many time with lots of different songs but THEY JUST DONT WORK! Like even with the album in the bottom left of the screen it says "Drag Album Artwork Here" i do that, itunes freezes for a second and then the album wont appear!
PLZ HELP! oh yeah a good site with albums is amazon.com
http://albumart.org/
Here's a good resource for finding those album covers.
Posted by: Nick on December 18, 2007 9:15 PMTo mark, and anyone else who comes across this... Amazon is a good source for getting album covers, but sometimes artists put the image on the CD.
Posted by: rjb on August 16, 2007 7:13 AMI tried that, it kinda works. The only problem is that the artwork is pretty blurry. I guess the original image is too small. How do I find web sites with clearer images?
Posted by: Mark on October 4, 2006 5:59 AM