Can't find album artwork for AC/DC Back In Black
SpreadTooThin
However for some reason non of my AC/DC CDs have art work.
What gives?
Tom Harrington
"SpreadTooThin" <bjobr...@gmail.com> wrote:
iTunes can only find album art for albums that are sold at the iTunes
store. AC/DC is not sold there.
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SpreadTooThin
Where will I find a black bitmap image?????
Clever Monkey
> Try copying and pasting from Amazon.com's entry for the album.
>
Amazon (maybe just amazon.ca?) recently munged their images so they are
a smaller picture in a largish white frame. Less than useful.
Use Google image search. There is an Applescript available from Doug's
Applescripts that hooks into Google find album images based on album and
song name. Works well for me.
The iTunes 7.0 art thingy has done nothing to my library (that I can tell).
Steve Maser
Somebody pointed me to "Clutter" and it worked pretty well for stuff
that isn't sold in iTunes.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18699
Google is your friend for finding stuff that isn't in Amazon either
(ie, out-of-print vinyl recordings, etc...)
- Steve
nospam
> Babaganoosh wrote:
>> Try copying and pasting from Amazon.com's entry for the album.
>>
> Amazon (maybe just amazon.ca?) recently munged their images so they are
> a smaller picture in a largish white frame. Less than useful.
>
> Use Google image search. There is an Applescript available from Doug's
> Applescripts that hooks into Google find album images based on album and
> song name. Works well for me.
>
http://www.discogs.com/artist/AC%2FDC
all in one place, just click on the image in the album entry for a
larger one, sometimes more than one.
Andy
Geoff Welsh
> Babaganoosh wrote:
>
>> Try copying and pasting from Amazon.com's entry for the album.
>>
> Amazon (maybe just amazon.ca?) recently munged their images so they are
> a smaller picture in a largish white frame. Less than useful.
>
looks fine enough:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002JS6.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
GW
Clever Monkey
<http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002JS6.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1056632304_.jpg>
The above link is what you get when visiting from amazon.ca.
Note the funny white border. Looks like hell in iTunes.
Geoff Welsh
it only takes a few seconds to crop it down:
from web browser: right-click; save-as whatever
Open image in Preview. Drag mouse to highlight black square, do
Edit/Copy then File/New from clipboard.
Or just don't go to Amazon.ca
GW
Barbarossa
> > > I updated all my album artwork with the new verison of
> > > iTunes... However for some reason non of my AC/DC CDs have
> > > art work. What gives?
Tom Harrington wrote:
> > iTunes can only find album art for albums that are sold at
> > the iTunes store. AC/DC is not sold there.
"SpreadTooThin" <bjobr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Where will I find a black bitmap image?????
Barbarossa:
Why is it that people seem to have such difficulty finding
album art? I have some 3,800 odd album covers, and believe me,
some of them really are ODD [*cough - 'Cannibal Corpse' - cough*]
Al one has to do is type or paste: ac/dc back in black
or: "back in black" into Google and hit: Images.
I prefer images of 300 X 300 pixels up to a max of about 500 X
500 IF I CAN FIND THEM, but sometimes the art just isnšt very
large and often of poor quality.
I checked the AC/DC image at Amazon and found that although
it was of a decent size the color was a bit off. I think this
was due to poor photography causing glare on the album. It
happens a lot.
I dragged the art to the Desktop and opened it with
GraphicConverter (5-star Mac Toolbox All Time Hall of Fame
Shareware - $30) and used the sliders in: "Picture: Simple
Brightness/Contrast ..." to turn the Brightness down, and the
Contrast and Saturation up. It took just a few seconds and the
resulting image looks great for iTunes.
I've done this hundreds of times for dull or faded images so
they are at least legible on an iPod.
And yes, there are some really obscure albums out there that
simple have no art at all posted anywhere on the web so I have
resorted to using images of the group or artist instead.
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Clever Monkey
All I was saying is that I noticed one of my usual places for album art
was munged. Given a library of several thousands of songs, all ripped
prior to iTunes 7, I am not going to do any such thing as edit each
album art image by hand.
That would be exceedingly stupid.
> Or just don't go to Amazon.ca
Yeah. I got that.
It's where my browser takes me when I type "am" in the address bar. I
actually have a script that finds art via Google Images. I only go
elsewhere by hand when that pans out. Now that I see that .com does not
munge the art for some reason, I'll adjust my finger accordingly.
Geoff Welsh
> All I was saying is that I noticed one of my usual places for album art
> was munged. Given a library of several thousands of songs, all ripped
> prior to iTunes 7, I am not going to do any such thing as edit each
> album art image by hand.
>
> That would be exceedingly stupid.
>
>> Or just don't go to Amazon.ca
>
> Yeah. I got that.
>
> It's where my browser takes me when I type "am" in the address bar. I
> actually have a script that finds art via Google Images. I only go
> elsewhere by hand when that pans out. Now that I see that .com does not
> munge the art for some reason, I'll adjust my finger accordingly.
I only have like 100 songs in iTunes, but a lot of them are not
available so I was looking into getting images from Amazon.com around
the time you first posted. I found I still had to crop a few.
After the initial /fun/ of using cover browser view, I went back to list
view anyway.
what realllllly pisses me off in iTunes is that if I miss the check box
when deciding a song I want to hear, it Selects it; meaning I have to
Unselect it or it will play again later before the next song I check.
Also, after you screw that up, try stopping a song. Jeez! Pause,
uncheck, unselect, STILL plays song I don't want to hear. Uggh.
I think it'd be easier to burn my purchased songs to disc and go back to
using my CD player. At least it HAS a stop button.
GW
Paul Sture
Geoff Welsh <geoff...@some.rr.com> wrote:
>
> what realllllly pisses me off in iTunes is that if I miss the check box
> when deciding a song I want to hear, it Selects it; meaning I have to
> Unselect it or it will play again later before the next song I check.
> Also, after you screw that up, try stopping a song. Jeez! Pause,
> uncheck, unselect, STILL plays song I don't want to hear. Uggh.
> I think it'd be easier to burn my purchased songs to disc and go back to
> using my CD player. At least it HAS a stop button.
That behaviour drives me nuts too. A couple of weeks ago I was recording
onto audio cassette. When I played it back, I found that whatever iTunes
had decided to play all by itself was there in the background of my
recording. Sigh.
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Paul Sture