missing iTunes artwork

Posted by: sjw on 09 December 2011

I wondered if anyone had come across a nice bit of software are that can missing album artwork for iTunes and pop it in- i've tried find album artwork in iTunes but there are still quite a lot of gaps

ideally free!

 

thanks

Posted on: 09 December 2011 by Richwleeds

I use Album Artwork Assistant

 

I know others use Cover Scout

 

Just google and you will find the free downloads of each

 

They are for Macs though

Posted on: 09 December 2011 by sjw
Will try and thanks
Posted on: 09 December 2011 by King Size

Or you could simply highlight the relevant album tracks and copy and paste the album art from amazon, allmusic or similar. 

Posted on: 09 December 2011 by Massimo Bertola

King Size,

your avatar is super! Very nice pic of a dog - yours?

Max

Posted on: 09 December 2011 by Iver van de Zand
Dear Swj,

The best way to go is probably go the manual way,meaning that you search for the albumArt picture, save it and add it to the tracks manually in iTunes. You will quickly notice that this is the most reliable way for prevending from missing album art. Iver
Posted on: 09 December 2011 by sjw
Threes 150 gb and growing of music despite doing add album artwork there's quite a lot of gaps so the manually option is something to avoid!
Posted on: 09 December 2011 by Iver van de Zand
I understand swj, but I have been in a similar situation like you. My squeezebow "saw" only 30% of the aftwork which was "found automatically" by iTunes ...... The only way to really embedd the artwork into (!) the track is adding it manually. In all cases the artwork is stored like a separate file being linked to by iTunes. The latter process just doesn't work so properly. Cheers, Iver
Posted on: 09 December 2011 by King Size
Originally Posted by maxbertola:

King Size,

your avatar is super! Very nice pic of a dog - yours?

Max

Hi Max,

Thank you, i love the pic too and yes he is mine (although he prefers to think of me as his personal butler).  His name is Brady, he's a Pembroke Welsh Corgi and was about 6 months old when the pic was taken.

Cheers,

Chris

Posted on: 16 December 2011 by sjw

album artwork assistant worked great and thanks!!

 

sadly the sonos doesn't see them tho- given the number of people who use iTunes this is a bit silly in the extreme !

 

 the sonos site suggests some sort of script on their site which doesn't seem to work with snow leopard. Sonos tech support europe were to be frank clueless and barely poke neglish - i had to repeat the email address 20x

 

With10000+ songs their suggestion to do something manually was stupid in the extreme

 

any ideas please?

 

thanks

Posted on: 16 December 2011 by paaj

I think I found this applescript to be pretty useful: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/...s/ss.php?sp=embedart, had a similar situation with repositioning the library a few times.

First check for album covers using iTunes, then run it by following instructions...

 

I forgot if it actually worked (but I think it did), and only used iTunes so didn't check on other devices. 

 

Posted on: 17 December 2011 by sjw

bought cover scout- seems fine thanks