Comments for Adding Album Cover Art to iTunes

Adding Album Cover Art to iTunes

2005-09-12T19:38:17Z

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.

Comment from Ronae on 2008-12-25

2008-12-26T01:32:05Z

omg thnks it actually works and you don't even have to download anything!!!

Comment from Matthew on 2008-12-25

2008-12-25T15:36:48Z

Thank you so much! I couldn't have figured this out with your advice!

Comment from none on 2008-09-28

2008-09-28T20:40:09Z

try allmusic.com cant think of a better resource.

Comment from Morgan on 2008-09-07

2008-09-08T01:23:23Z

I 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!

Comment from Fernando Monteiro on 2008-02-10

2008-02-10T23:19:38Z

It do not work with IE 7, but works fine on Firefox 2.

Thanks !

Comment from Fernando Monteiro on 2008-02-10

2008-02-10T23:19:25Z

It do not work with IE 7, but works fine com Firefox 2.

Thanks !

Comment from sasquatch on 2008-01-03

2008-01-04T06:50:03Z

Maybe 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.

Comment from surfychik32 on 2007-12-20

2007-12-21T01:36:43Z

yeah 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

Comment from Nick on 2007-12-18

2007-12-19T05:15:07Z

http://albumart.org/

Here's a good resource for finding those album covers.

Comment from rjb on 2007-08-16

2007-08-16T14:13:42Z

To 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.

Comment from Mark on 2006-10-04

2006-10-04T12:59:02Z

I 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?