iTunes artwork strangeness
James Chokey
I've been running iTunes 4.0 on my iMac G4 (with 10.2.6). I like the
fact that I can have iTunes display the album cover so I've been going
and dragging-and-dropping images for all of the 9000 songs currently
in my library. That *had* been going well.
However, something happened yesterday evening that's made that
more difficult-- and the strange thing is that I don't know what might
have caused it!
I think my problem can best be illustrated by doing a before/after
contrast:
BEFORE: Whenever I'd select a song (i.e. clicking on it once with
the mouse), the image I'd already dragged in would display. (Or, if
there was no image yet, I'd see a little hyphenated square with a
message saying "Drag album artwork here". ) This would happen
regardless of what song was actually playing. In short, he artwork
displayed was determined by the song currently selected-- not by the
song currently playing
AFTER: This situation seems to have reversed. Now, iTunes only
displays the artwork for the song that is actually *playing*,
regardless of the song that was actually selected. Thus, if I
double-click on one song to play it, and then select another song, the
art work for the first song continues to display.
This is *very* inconvenient for a number of reasons, It especially
inconvenient when I want to *add* artwork to songs that don't yet have
it. Before, I could just batch-select all the songs on an album and
then drag the artwork into the box-- and that would take care of all
of
them. Now, however, I can't do that. Since the iTunes box only seems
to relate to the song that's playing (rather than to the songs
selected), I can only now drag-and-drop artwork into a song that's
currently playing! This means that if I rip an album with then tracks,
I have to start track one playing, drag and drop the artwork in, then
start track two playing, drag and drop, then shift to track three, drag
and drop, etc....
Obviously, I'd like things to go back to the way they used to be.
However, I have no idea how to accomplish that. This change just sort
of happened-- I didn't change any settings in iTunes or anything like
that.-- so I'm not sure how to reverse it.
As an experiment, I decided to have Software Updater update me from 4.0
to 4.01.... but that didn't change anything. It still only displays
the song that's actually playing and won't allow multiple
drag-and-drops of artwork any more. :-(
Any ideas as to what might have caused this or how I can go back to the
way things "used to be"?
-- Jim C.
James Chokey
In article <190620031942213496%jcdontyous...@sbcglobal.net>,
James Chokey <jcdontyous...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Doh! I figured out what had happened! Above the artwork window,
there's a little panel that allows you to choose between "Now Playing"
or "Selected Song". I switched from one to the other, without ever
realizing how... or that there was such an option.
So, problem solved and explained.
Sorry for wasting anyone's time with this...
Jim C.
Paul Antonissen
James Chokey <jcdontyous...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Click where it says "Now Playing" right above the artwork. That should
toggle you to "Selected Song".
> As an experiment, I decided to have Software Updater update me from 4.0
> to 4.01.... but that didn't change anything. It still only displays
> the song that's actually playing and won't allow multiple
> drag-and-drops of artwork any more. :-(
>
> Any ideas as to what might have caused this or how I can go back to the
> way things "used to be"?
>
> -- Jim C.
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James Chokey <jcdontyous...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
[...]
> AFTER: This situation seems to have reversed. Now, iTunes only
> displays the artwork for the song that is actually *playing*,
Click on the "Now playing" text to revert to "Selected Song" (and vice
versa).
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