Can't seem to find covers for new albums like Curtis and Graduation.

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What ever happened to ctrl+clicking/right clicking on a song and choosing "Get Album Artwork"?

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goldmine

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@Jerm: "Get Album Artwork" does not retrieve the available high-rez artwork, it seems.

(I did a test with the Innocence Mission's We Walked In Song. The art retrieved w/ "Get Album Artwork" was 600x600 pixels, while the art retrieve Josh's site was 1400x1400.)

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Is there any app out there that automatically browse my itunes and add the necessary artwork?

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I don't understand what problems you guys are having with iTunes and album artwork retrieval. I listen to some obscure shit and iTunes almost always retrieves correct and great album artwork now that their catalog has become really international and expansive.

Get your tags right in the first place?

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If you had to include "The," does that also mean you would have to use Apple's version of the album name?

In downloaded John Lennon's "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band" today, but Apple has it as "John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band (Remastered)," which I promptly changed... would that not work?

(On a side note, the download didn't even include album art for some reason- or else it didn't transfer to my iPod.

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P2d I don't see any app ever doing what you want because it would have to know every album ever put out, which would take a lot of (impossible) dedication from the programmer.
Alexander maybe your not as obscure as you would like to think you are, I have had to find and add art myself to lots of my iTunes collection, on top of that the point being made is that often iTunes art is very low res.

Gareth

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Actually, Gareth, there are programs that will go retrieve artwork automatically for those tracks missing it, at least for the Mac. Of course, if they can't find it, they can't find it and they move on.

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I've always found Amazon w/ a combination of Google image search to be the best way...Of course, this has also led to a corruption of my iTunes album art, rendering my iTunes cover screen-saver useless. Good times.

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OK, found the link for the artwork downloader:

http://www.fixtunes.com/mac/

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Oh trust me Gareth, especially for a US iTMS account, I listen to some obscure shit.

I think oldies and classical music tend to not be on iTMS and I will say that i have a hard time with album artwork for some oldies.

The album artwork I get from iTMS seems to be good enough quality of the iPhone.

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Judd are you not just reinforcing what Im saying? "Of course, if they can't find it, they can't find it and they move on."
There is just no way anybody is going to know every piece of music released and have the art for it.

Alexander I don't want to argue Im happy somebody is thinking outside the music box however. I have had a nightmare finding album art for artists like Jandek and the early Melt Banana discs I own, and they are some of the better known "lesser" artists I listen to

Gareth

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So it seems like there's a problem here with earlier works from lesser known artists. Amazon!

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Oh taking the piss, how refreshing

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How many kb do the 1400X 1400 images add to each song file size? times the number of tracks on an album...seems like one album of hi-rez can add at least 1-2MB per album...that could be up 100Mb per 50 10 song albums. While hi-rez would look nice on an AppleTV or monitor, however on my 4GB iPhone every kB counts. 100 Mb is two more albums or a pair of TV shows. I have 200 X 200 images (19k - 32k each) and they look fine on the iPod platform. Too bad iTunes can't store both and automatically select the image that fits the medium.

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actually -- believe it or not -- the best (i.e., highest quality) artwork on the net (aside from apple, of course) is walmart.com. yep, walmart.... better than amazon, and better than google (because walmart's cover art doesn't show up in google searches).

amazon's scans are often not perfectly square, or they're crooked or have random white edges, because they weren't aligned properly.

josh's search tool is fantastic. but if you find yourself needing to grab artwork on the net, look at walmart.com.

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why would you want large album art that takes up the already precious space on your ipod

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1) Why would you want large album art taking up what is already precious space on your ipod (are you really that vain)

2) if you just name your files correctly i.e. in the same manner as it is in the iTunes store, it will find it

Stop complaining about nothing.....get a life!

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If you dont get all your music from the iTMS and you have a very large library (my is over 60GB) it is a daunting task to try name every track/album in the exact same format as the iTMS so that you can get the artwork. So I have a lot of blanks, but I hate coverflow so it does not matter to me.

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