itunes questions......

I am tryin to get familiar with itunes. Question, if I try to get it to search for cover art it says I must have an account with itunes. Does this mean it will charge me for the art? Will it only find tack info if it has been bought through itunes?

you just need a mac account.. they will not charge you for recieving album art. it will find art work for all properly tagged files you import into itunes lib. but problem is it will not embed into the file itself. it stores the album art in the itunes music lib folder & coresponse the file w/ that pic. once you take the file out of itunes (no art)

Awe damn that sucks! Is there a way to embed it after it gets it for you?

Try mediamonkey!!!

Much better!

Hey Nicky, Does MM find album art? Does it also searck for track info if it is not ripped from a cd? I am not too worried about art but am trying to get all my years and genres filled for the ones that I have blank.

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not that i know of..
if you use itunes to embed album art. you are gonna have to embed yourself.

i use all these programs to get album art embeded to my files.

www.tuneupmedia.com
www.mixshare.com
www.mp3tag.de

for the files i dont find i just got to embed myself.

iTunes only seems to work (well) if you have full albums and all your tag information complete. The easiest way is to hit Amazon, Discogs, and even Walmart and just drag and drop the artwork in yourself.

Something similar to this: www.ilounge.com or just drag and drop from the web browser on the little Artwork window.

^^ that's what I do. Everytime I rip a cd, record or whatever I drag a jpeg from amazon or something similar.

lmgtfy.com

I was doing that for a while but eventually stopped. I'm going to start doing that again, now I've finally updated my Scratchlive and can see the album artwork.

Well I am trying Media Monkey as Kicky suggested and it is finding a good amount of them as well as the release yeay then I will just have to manually do the others.

Thanks guys!!

mediamonkey also has several powerufl 'plugins' that will automatically find album art for albums with none amongst other things. check out the mediamonkey forums

Thanks Nyce!!

id prob jump on media monkey if scratchlive could read their playlists..
i have a gold membership but every time i tried to use MM its seems fuckin complicated???

mediamonkey is an excellent media player with advanced library management. it lacks the simplicity that itunes has which is why it'll never be a main stay. with the success of the ipod and the itunes store, itunes has become an industry standard of playing digital music. i can see why serato chooses to support itunes. heck even final scratch 1.0 (2001-2002) read itunes libraries.

btw, serato can read the playlists mm exports, just not the library (it uses a real db...access).