iTunes Artwork with Curator

I have a huge nagging question: does Curator actually embed the artwork into the MP3 file or does it put it in that separate iTunes cover art folder? For people that just used an iPod/iTunes, it probably doesn't matter... but if you share your music cross-platform (like with a PC or XBMC via Samba), artwork will only show up if it's embedded. If curator actually embeds it AND gains the option to use other sources besides Amazon (I prefer Wikipedia myself), it would be well worth the money, IMO.

when will someone make something that downloads the cover art from discogs.com. This is an amazing and essential resource for any lover of obscure music, and almost always their cover art is large and good looking and usually includes the actual media as well and the back cover too. Also it would be amazing to get the info from there directly to my itunes. Almost makes me want to learn programing myself.

Actually, just click here to get it:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/music/albumartwidget.html

dude. just look for the iTunes cover art finder widget on the apple widget site! it's free and easy to use and it searches for the cover through the amazon database as well.

Damn cover art. I had roughly 20,000 songs before I started applying cover art to all of my music, but now I have close to 30,000 and there's still a lot to be done. Plus I have a lot of obscure punk and new wave stuff that Google can't find.

An app like this seems nice, but I feel safer doing it myself. Not only will I sleep easy at night knowing that everything is exactly how I want it, I'll also know that I will never, EVER have to do it again.

That said, who wants to do it for me?

Fishes,
narco.

I don't know why you folks make it so difficult. I just let iTunes fill in my missing cover art. For anything it can't find there's Google.

I've found the Amazon artwork to be subpar. I've been using cduniverse.com or artistdirect.com for all of my artwork. Would be nice to have a program like this, but with an option to go to other sites. For now, I'll stick with the manual option.

The first place I search for album art is Wikipedia. You can often find very nice quality cover scans there. Better than the majority of images available from Amazon.

I've gotten by with Clutter for years. It hasn't been updated in a while, but it's free and the source is available.

I've noticed in iTunes that unless the artwork is perfectly square, it doesn't cache/flow well, so I've resized and tweaked a couple dozen albums (of 326) by hand.

Curator is probably easier to use for Coverflow cleanup, but Clutter also lets you put CDs "on your desktop" for quick access, reminders, or just because they look pretty. And it's free.

Another source for decent quality cover art that I've recently discovered is rateyourmusic.com. You have to register to get to the highest quality covers, and sometimes they don't have anything better than Amazon, but sometimes they do!