Album art and iTunes 4

Harvey J Cohen

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Apr 29, 2003, 1:53:18 AM4/29/03

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Hello all ..

A quick question. In both Real Player Jukebox and Windows Media Player
for XP (on that unliked WIntel-XP platform), one gets Album art
(directly downloaded into the album folders when using WMP). With
iTunes 4 now able to display something, how can one tap into whatever
databases WMP and Real Player tap into to get these images?

Just wondering ..

CDDB (Gracenote) doesn't seem to have that capability ..

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Cathy Stevenson

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Apr 29, 2003, 12:39:09 PM4/29/03

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In article <280420032253186788%hjc...@adelphia.NOSPAMnet>, Harvey J
Cohen <hjc...@adelphia.NOSPAMnet> wrote:

> Hello all ..
>
> A quick question. In both Real Player Jukebox and Windows Media Player
> for XP (on that unliked WIntel-XP platform), one gets Album art
> (directly downloaded into the album folders when using WMP). With
> iTunes 4 now able to display something, how can one tap into whatever
> databases WMP and Real Player tap into to get these images?
>
> Just wondering ..
>
> CDDB (Gracenote) doesn't seem to have that capability ..

If you are into album covers, there is a nifty book - "1,000 Record
Covers" (Michael Ochs, ed.)

Cathy

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Andy Perry

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May 10, 2003, 4:11:45 AM5/10/03

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In article <280420032253186788%hjc...@adelphia.NOSPAMnet>,
Harvey J Cohen <hjc...@adelphia.NOSPAMnet> wrote:

> Hello all ..
>
> A quick question. In both Real Player Jukebox and Windows Media Player
> for XP (on that unliked WIntel-XP platform), one gets Album art
> (directly downloaded into the album folders when using WMP). With
> iTunes 4 now able to display something, how can one tap into whatever
> databases WMP and Real Player tap into to get these images?

You can go to allmusic.com and then drag the album art from your browser
into iTunes 4. Be sure to select all the tracks in the album by
shift-clicking before you do the drag, if you want the album art to show
up for each of those tracks.
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Kevin Michael Vail

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May 10, 2003, 5:35:47 PM5/10/03

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In article
<AndPICKLESrew_PerLETTUCE...@nnrp03.earthlink.net>,
Andy Perry <AndPICKLESrew...@Brown.edu> wrote:

> In article <280420032253186788%hjc...@adelphia.NOSPAMnet>,
> Harvey J Cohen <hjc...@adelphia.NOSPAMnet> wrote:
>
> > Hello all ..
> >
> > A quick question. In both Real Player Jukebox and Windows Media Player
> > for XP (on that unliked WIntel-XP platform), one gets Album art
> > (directly downloaded into the album folders when using WMP). With
> > iTunes 4 now able to display something, how can one tap into whatever
> > databases WMP and Real Player tap into to get these images?
>
> You can go to allmusic.com and then drag the album art from your browser
> into iTunes 4. Be sure to select all the tracks in the album by
> shift-clicking before you do the drag, if you want the album art to show
> up for each of those tracks.

The program Synergy ($5 shareware) gets the album art and displays it in
the floater that shows which track is currently playing.
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