Question about iTunes

NRen2k5

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Dec 7, 2006, 5:12:18 AM12/7/06

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How do I import Album Art from my hard drive (not from iTunes or Amazon)
for an entire album at once rather than for just one track?

Andrew Templeman

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Dec 7, 2006, 7:05:34 AM12/7/06

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NRen2k5 <nom...@email.com> wrote:

> How do I import Album Art from my hard drive (not from iTunes or Amazon)
> for an entire album at once rather than for just one track?

You use drag and drop.
Select either the album name in browser view, or all the tracks of the
album; then 'get info' /Cmd-I accept the warning that you are changing
info for multiple items - that's what you want to do! Drag the Image
from the finder window or desktop to the artwork panel of the dialog.

You could also set the mini art viewer to 'selected' rather than 'now
playing' and drag the artwork there.

--
Andy Templeman <http://www.templeman.org.uk/>

Mitch

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Dec 7, 2006, 8:28:33 PM12/7/06

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In article <4ORdh.5589$4A....@wagner.videotron.net>, NRen2k5
<nom...@email.com> wrote:

> How do I import Album Art from my hard drive (not from iTunes or Amazon)
> for an entire album at once rather than for just one track?

Select all of the tracks you want
Get Info or command-i
Paste into the art box

It's the same as for a single track, you just select several to begin
with, and the art appears in a different part of the dialog.

If you use the Browse view, you can select all of the tracks for an
album by selecting the album name.

Chris Boyd

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Dec 7, 2006, 11:44:39 PM12/7/06

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NRen2k5 wrote:
> How do I import Album Art from my hard drive (not from iTunes or Amazon)
> for an entire album at once rather than for just one track?

Hold down shift, hilight all tracks in the album. Right click go to
Get Info, double click on the Artwork space, go pick your album art out.

NRen2k5

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Dec 8, 2006, 7:23:26 AM12/8/06

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Will this be editing the tags in the MP3's themselves (and thus
embedding the artwork into each MP3), or will it be making the changes
only in the iTunes db?

NRen2k5

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Dec 8, 2006, 7:26:30 AM12/8/06

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Will this be editing the tags in the MP3's themselves (and thus

NRen2k5

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Dec 8, 2006, 7:27:11 AM12/8/06

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Will this be editing the tags in the MP3's themselves (and thus

NRen2k5

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Dec 8, 2006, 8:27:18 AM12/8/06

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NRen2k5 wrote:
> How do I import Album Art from my hard drive (not from iTunes or Amazon)
> for an entire album at once rather than for just one track?

Another question while I'm at it... what would be the best PC software
to convert DivX movies to play on an iPod?

Chris Boyd

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Dec 8, 2006, 12:43:50 PM12/8/06

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It embeds them in the song files themselves.

Chris Boyd

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Dec 8, 2006, 12:45:03 PM12/8/06

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When I had my PC I found Videora iPod Converter very useful:

http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/

Andrew Templeman

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Dec 8, 2006, 1:36:58 PM12/8/06

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NRen2k5 <nom...@email.com> wrote:

I am pretty sure it updates the tags, because it copies the files over
to an ipod again and updates the modified date.

In fact I can be sure of this now, because the artwork goes with the
track when I move it between my machines.

NRen2k5

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Dec 9, 2006, 8:02:36 AM12/9/06

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Okay, I sort of suspected that.

My current tagging software (MP3Tag) can already handle embedding album
art so if that's what I'm doing then I might as well use MP3Tag. It's a
shame to waste a few MB of space doing that, though. foobar2000 (with
Album Art Panel) associates an image file with a whole album of music
rather than embedding it into every file.

Oh well. What's a few MB on an iPod anyway? :)

NRen2k5

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Dec 9, 2006, 8:03:59 AM12/9/06

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Thanks. Started using it and am quite satisfied.