[bluejam]

I've been getting my cover art from Amazon but they come with little 20% off labels in the lower right corners. Anyone know a better place to obtain album cover art for iTunes?

[mrkablooey]

yeah, click on the cover art which opens up a larger view w/o the 20% marker.

[Paranoid_Android]

Or just download the coolest Application ever: Clutter
Open up Clutter, open up iTunes.
Pick a song, play the song, and Clutter will automatically find the Album art. Then you fire up Preview, create a new document from the clipboard, and drag the icon in the top of the document window into iTunes Album art corner.
Not exactly "simple" but it allowed me to d/l album art for my 100+ CD's in record time.

[Pompous]

You can also copy the image straight from Clutter, get the info of the song you want that album artwork to go on, and paste in the "Artwork" box.

[Damien]

Even easier than that, which I disscovered after reading the FAQ (who'da thunk it?) is that you can just option-click-drag the image to iTunes artwork window. This way, you can avoid having to use Preview as a go-between as Paranoid Andoid suggest.

[mystery_stain]

Drag n drop is nice for one image at a time, but what about in bulk? I've been running Synergy, which I think does about ten cooler things than Clutter. Synergy's been collecting cover art for tunes played over the last few weeks and putting it into its own folder in Application Support. Now I see Clutter puts art into its own folder, so I stopped using it because it's redundant. Any way to tell iTunes to look where Synergy stashed all the art and get it from there? I'm not going to drag and drop all whatever hundred TIFF files it's got, one at a time.
I guess we have to hope iTunes gets its cover art act together so these other developers don't have to have their redundant solutions.

[SeaFox]

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I'm not going to drag and drop all whatever hundred TIFF files it's got, one at a time.

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I'm sure there's some OSX-related or file format reason for this, but...
Why do you have to drag them one at a time? Isn't that what Edit->Select All is for?

[Chris Breen]

Or just use the Copy Cover to iTunes command in Clutter's File menu.
Chris

[mystery_stain]

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Why do you have to drag them one at a time? Isn't that what Edit->Select All is for?

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Maybe I need the steps spelled out for me a little more specifically.
I have an Album Covers folder in Application Support/Synergy. There are 58 album cover TIFFs in it that Synergy has been collecting automatically from Amazon.
I tested what was suggested. I selected multiple covers and dragged them into iTunes "Drag Album Artwork Here." What happens is ALL of the selected covers are added to the ONE song that's playing, since iTunes handles multiple cover art images per album. If I drag the art into the box when it says "Nothing Playing," iTunes won't accept the art and it boomerangs back to the Finder folder.
It still looks like I have to do it one at a time. Are you saying that there is a way to drag all 58 covers and have iTunes automatically apply them to all the right albums? Do I drag it to a different place in iTunes? Do I select them a different way?
And in the meantime, how do you delete wrong cover artwork from an album since that was the result above?

[SeaFox]

Slightly off topic. Well not really given the original intent of this topic. Anyway I was over on Wal-Mart's website and I found they actually have a much larger selection than one would think from the store. I found album art for some albums I can't get a larger view for on Amazon. Plus Wal-Mart's large views are full size instead of 3"x3" like Amazon. Unfortunately, whoever is scanning the covers is using some auto contrast setting on the scanner so some of the covers have oversatuarted color or are too dark.

[stuartpurple]

In Amazon, get the enlarged picture of the artwork.
Play any song in the chosen album in iTunes.
In iTunes, select ALL of the songs associated with that particular album.
Drag the image from Amazon to the iTunes drag box.
When the artwork is being added to the song that is playing, it will skip as the picture is encoded into the sound file.
Hope this helps.
Stu.

[Fredrik_Pettersson]

If the file is encoded into the sound file, is the sound file changed and if so is there a way to change it back?
Thanks

[stuartpurple]

The quality of the tracks remains the same and can still be used normally. The images are hard coded into the MP3 or AAF file, so there is no way to separate them. However, once burned to an audio CD and re downloaded to iTunes, all image details have been erased.
This is not a huge problem. I have a P3 running 98 (I know). I burned an MP3 CD to transfer some tracks to see if it affected the playback in WiMP. It doesn't.
The image thing is a nice little tool, but the performance and quality are unaffected.
Stu.