Fusion Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 I currently keep all my music on my iPod. Most are CD's that I own that I have ripped that do not include the album art. Is there a way I can download album art to the songs themselves without doing the manual drag and drop method? While this method works, it is very slow. I have tried and application called FetchArt, but I received an Apple Script error for some reason. It had something to do with the database so my guess is that it is because the songs are located on the iPod. I will try adding an album to my Hard Disc Library to test this theory, either way though, it is not working. Ultimately it would be nice to be able to search and download the Album Art right through the 'get info' window along with editing the rest of the tag. Also, second question, can anyone confirm that when I add the art by drag and drop, is it adding it to some iTunes database or is it actually adding to the AAC tag? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted December 25, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 25, 2003 For MP3's, I know that it adds it to the file itself. I would imagine it is the same for AAC files. iTunes doesn't have a central repository for album art anyways, I think it's all stored in the individual files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threetonesun Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 Yeah, it stores the album art in the header of each song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtmcgee Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 sofa works rather well, but not really for what you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fusion Posted December 25, 2003 Author Share Posted December 25, 2003 Too late now. I did some searching and could not find anything close enough to what I was looking for. I ended up spending about 4 hours manually searching and dragging covers from amazon and walmart. Interesting fact, walmart, believe it or not, has the most high quality images of album art. Pretty impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threetonesun Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 Too late now. I did some searching and could not find anything close enough to what I was looking for. I ended up spending about 4 hours manually searching and dragging covers from amazon and walmart.Interesting fact, walmart, believe it or not, has the most high quality images of album art. Pretty impressive. Even better than the "see larger image" ones from Amazon? I thought those were about CD size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the evn show Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 Walmarts are considerably higher. It's actually a frightening though that wal-mart is capable of doing something well! (No offense to those who shop at wal-mart intended) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fusion Posted December 25, 2003 Author Share Posted December 25, 2003 Walmarts are considerably higher. It's actually a frightening though that wal-mart is capable of doing something well! (No offense to those who shop at wal-mart intended) That was my same reaction. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted December 25, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 25, 2003 Better than Buy.com's? I usually run then through photoshop to bring down the filesizes a bit, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fusion Posted December 25, 2003 Author Share Posted December 25, 2003 I decided to do a little random sampling. CD Covers - 454x454 @ 97dpi - 32kb Buy - 500x500 @ 72 dpi - 68kb Amazon - 300x300 @ 72 dpi - 36kb All Music - 200x200 @ 300 dpi - 8kb Walmart - 500x500 @ 72 dpi - 24kb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galley Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 Wal-mart's images don't look as good since they are only 72 dpi, which is why I stick with Amazon. If any Windows users need an album artwork downloader, then checkout Put Up Your Jukes. It fetches images from Amazon and Wal-Mart. It's freeware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the evn show Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 500 pixels is 500 pixels on your screen. On my powerbook screen they're going to be displayed at ~120 dpi, on a crumb 17" CRT at 1024x768 they'll be 96 dpi, and at 640x480 they'll be 72 dpi. The only time that's going to matter is if you print them and with modern printers hitting 5000x5000 that crumby little image would be a few millimeters square (very very small for you living in backwards countries that don't use metric units). They aren't suitable for printing so why bother. When I finally re-encode my music collection I'll be using 128x128 images for cover art. Large enough to convert to icons without being wasteful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shodan Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 I'm sorry Fusion but i see you've already done the job. By the way, you could use Mp3Rage to download album arts, it's very cool, and imagine? It get's them from walmart! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fusion Posted December 26, 2003 Author Share Posted December 26, 2003 I'm sorry Fusion but i see you've already done the job. By the way, you could use Mp3Rage to download album arts, it's very cool, and imagine? It get's them from walmart! :D But from what I understand because of the difference in the database from iTunes and the database on the iPod, that utility does not work if all the music is on the iPod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shodan Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 Mmmm I don't know really, since I use the "find album art" utility, and drag the picture manually on the Artwork zone in iTunes. I remember I've done it to files who are on iPod.... I think... :blush: I guess i'll have to try... :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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