Coverscout 2.3
Coverflow is a really great incentive to get album art for all your tracks in iTunes 7, but surely you don't want to do that manually. Sure, iTunes can download cover art from the iTunes Store, but what if some of your music isn't on the iTunes Store?Enter Coverscout, which was just bumped up to version 2.3. This little app searches several sources to find that album art that is just right. New in 2.3 are:
- Use an iSight to take a picture of a rare CD or album cover and Coverscout will convert it to album art for you
- Better searching
- iTunes 7 support
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
geoff said 11:57AM on 11-29-2006
$20? No thanks.
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David said 11:59AM on 11-29-2006
Findmycover.com + Copy+Paste seems much more convenient to me and doesn't cost anything
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NetworkShadow said 12:03PM on 11-29-2006
http://specere.net/ Menuet and/or Art Collector are both good options also and cost a good deal less.
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Guillermo said 12:21PM on 11-29-2006
Corripio is free and also fetches song lyrics: http://nclasssoftware.com/index.php/nClassSoftware/corripio/
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Spike said 12:24PM on 11-29-2006
uh, google images anybody?
seriously, 20 bucks, thats like 20 iTunes tracks.....
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Bruno said 2:42PM on 11-29-2006
$20 isn't a problem for a program you will continue to use. It's a fair price. However, what this software has in common with others is that the sites they search for usually are no better than what's already included in iTunes.
Amazon is a poor place to go look for Album covers in my experience. Sign up an contribute to RateYourMusic.com as they tend to have a lot more covers for harder to find albums (stuff you can't get from iTunes directly).
Of course finding the images still means you're left to manually add them. This is usually only a problem if you're doing an entire collection at once. It's possible, but if you start first with what iTunes can get, you can easily manually fill in the missing spots.
Make sure to use a script to imbed the iTunes-downloaded artwork into the tracks after iTunes does its thing - otherwise it's just sitting in the local iTunes cache.
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Jason said 3:55PM on 11-29-2006
Has anyone come up with a script or program that works like the auto download in itunes 7?
I want cover art but i dont want the art to be embeded in each music track. I want it like it is with itunes 7 version of coverflow. The art is saved in a folder and not in the music file itself.
thanks
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Jeffbbs said 3:23AM on 11-30-2006
In my opinion the best place for album art, especially for super rare stuff, is discogs.com. I wish someone would make something (an app, an applescript, whatever) that downloads from there. All of the covers are high quality (they don't let you post them if they aren't) and usually there are alternate covers, and backsides as well. Also, being a member updated, super completist style sight, every entry has loads of info about teh albums and occasionally about each track. While i am sure it is complicated, I wish someone could get that to load into my itunes tracks. It would save me months of sorting my music
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