iTunes & missing art work

Posted by: badlyread on 01 November 2009

Hi All

Still ripping to the Mac Mini but have encountered a little, but annoying, problem. Some of my album art work is missing. I have checked the box for Apple (Gracenote) to do most of the work for me but the usual method of getting missing stuff is not working: Highlight tracks>get info>drag artwork to box and watch the blue line fill. Since going to iTunes 9.0.2 this does not work.

Any help much appreciated.

Neil

Posted on: 01 November 2009 by paremus

Neil

Which format are you using? AIFF, WAV or ALAC. I had this problem with WAV - converted the offending files to AIFF and album art work attached fine.

Cheers

Richard

Posted on: 01 November 2009 by badlyread

Using Apple Lossless. It was working fine if a little slow with the Screen Sharing, but working.

Posted on: 01 November 2009 by garyi

The little box you add it too, make sure its on 'currently selected' and not set to 'now playing'

You can determine this by a tiny triangle that sits just above it. Not great.

Posted on: 01 November 2009 by badlyread

Thanks Garyi that works. There is always more than one way to do things with Apple.

Posted on: 02 November 2009 by badlyread

Ok. So how do I remove the wrong artwork that iTunes has collected?

Regards

Neil

Posted on: 02 November 2009 by winkyincanada

Yeah, I managed to drag the new image to the little box OK, but it still keeps using the old one in cover-flow. I can switch between the two images in the little box using the tiny arrows above it, but it makes no difference to what is displayed in cover-flow.

Any help appreciated.

Posted on: 02 November 2009 by Eloise

To remove incorrect artwork in iTunes, highlight the tracks within the CD and right click (Ctrl-Click) and choose get info. Put a tick in the artwork box and click okay. All artwork will then be deleted.

Eloise

Posted on: 03 November 2009 by badlyread

That seems to work nicely.

Many thanks Eloise.

Neil

Posted on: 03 November 2009 by winkyincanada

Yep, worked for me. Thanks a lot, Eloise.