iTunes 7 Artwork without disclosing credit card details
roger.v...@yahoo.com
put a credit card on file.
I dislike DRM, I dislike iTunes. I won't ever spend a penny there.
This is crazy. They are giving away iTunes downloads with coke & diet
coke..
Has anyone had good results retrieving album artwork?
Jim
> So to get the artwork for 'free' i have to open an iTunes account and
> put a credit card on file.
>
> I dislike DRM, I dislike iTunes. I won't ever spend a penny there.
So don't. Simply registering a credit card doesn't cost you anything.
> This is crazy. They are giving away iTunes downloads with coke & diet
> coke..
>
> Has anyone had good results retrieving album artwork?
Worked pretty well for me. Tends to favour American album art but otherwise
it's ok. Bit hit and miss though, so if you have a lot of stuff that has
the metadata filled in by the CDDB it may or may not find it.
There's also a widget that will grab stuff from Amazon. Can't remember
the name now but I posted the link a few days ago.
Jim
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>So to get the artwork for 'free' i have to open an iTunes account and
>put a credit card on file.
I opened an account with my card, then removed my card from my account
straight away. I get the free tracks and artwork no problem.
deKay
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> So to get the artwork for 'free' i have to open an iTunes account and
> put a credit card on file.
>
Nope. Use another program. There are dozens out there. Of course, many
of them want you to pay...
> I dislike DRM, I dislike iTunes. I won't ever spend a penny there.
>
Good. Then don't.
> This is crazy. They are giving away iTunes downloads with coke & diet
> coke..
>
But not to you as you need an account.
> Has anyone had good results retrieving album artwork?
>
Many people.
They also give away itunes downloads every week _if_ you have an
account. AND, you don't have to drink coke to get them.
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Woody
> So to get the artwork for 'free' i have to open an iTunes account and
> put a credit card on file.
Do you? I didn't. Maybe it was because I already had an apple ID.
> I dislike DRM
Me too.
> I dislike iTunes. I won't ever spend a penny there.
I like iTunes. Don't feel either way about the iTunes store, although I
won't spend money there.
> This is crazy. They are giving away iTunes downloads with coke & diet
> coke..
Why is that crazy? You don't have to use them if you don't want.
> Has anyone had good results retrieving album artwork?
yes. Works pretty well.
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PGG
> > Has anyone had good results retrieving album artwork?
>
> yes. Works pretty well.
Not for me. I've just obtained an external drive and copied using some
tar voodoo the entire contents of my iPod to the drive and re-imported
back into iTunes, with the artwork thing enabled just to see what it
did.
The results were variable. Some albums were totally incorrect - one
self-titled album by an obscure act with a common English word as their
name was replaced by something completely different that contained the
word. Some other albums were replaced with artwork of compilations of
the same name.
The worst case, though, was what happened with a number of jazz albums.
Titles on Atlantic, Columbia and Blue Note had their cover designs
taken from re-issues which had the original artwork covering only a
quarter or less of the cover, the rest containing a generic 'Classic
Album Series' type artwork.
Many albums couldn't be found at all. Others were replaced with artwork
from those 2-on-1 CD reissues - I always amend those kinds of CDs to
act as two seperate albums in iTunes.
Woody
> Woody wrote:
>
> > > Has anyone had good results retrieving album artwork?
> >
> > yes. Works pretty well.
>
> Not for me. I've just obtained an external drive and copied using some
> tar voodoo the entire contents of my iPod to the drive and re-imported
> back into iTunes, with the artwork thing enabled just to see what it
> did.
>
> The results were variable. Some albums were totally incorrect - one
> self-titled album by an obscure act with a common English word as their
> name was replaced by something completely different that contained the
> word. Some other albums were replaced with artwork of compilations of
> the same name.
Indeed. It isn't foolproof but it is better than it was before, where
you had to do it with a flakey applescript or manually.
> The worst case, though, was what happened with a number of jazz albums.
Quite right too - you can't get enough bad things happening to jazz
albums :-)
> Many albums couldn't be found at all. Others were replaced with artwork
> from those 2-on-1 CD reissues - I always amend those kinds of CDs to
> act as two seperate albums in iTunes.
still better than nothing. It is easier to get rid of the ones that are
wrong.
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Flavio Matani
> PGG <pa...@mu0yc3.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> > The worst case, though, was what happened with a number of jazz albums.
>
> Quite right too - you can't get enough bad things happening to jazz
> albums :-)
>
Does that include big bands? I think Peter C is going to get on your
case soon... :P
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Woody
> Woody <use...@alienrat.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > PGG <pa...@mu0yc3.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > The worst case, though, was what happened with a number of jazz albums.
> >
> > Quite right too - you can't get enough bad things happening to jazz
> > albums :-)
> >
>
> Does that include big bands?
hell yes.
> I think Peter C is going to get on your
> case soon... :P
Well, that will be a first :-)
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