On Oct 6, 2012, at 2:48 AM, cjw333 <[email protected]> wrote:

> I wrote up this post which might help you out:
> 
> http://cjw333.blogspot.com/2010/03/mystery-solved-embedding-images-into.html
> 
> although recently I seem to be having another problem with Quicksilver 
> showing iTunes album art properly.
> 
> I'm running QS v ß70 (3935)
> and v 2.1.6 of the iTunes Module
> 
> I'm in search of a fix.


The problems discussed were from 2009. A lot has changed since then, including 
a massive overhaul of the iTunes plug-in. None of those problems really apply 
any more. Music Videos are fully supported and all artwork is taken from the OS 
(specifically, the QuickLook system). In 2006, the OS didn’t know anything 
about album covers. Now it does, so the plug-in doesn’t need code to figure 
that out. I’m pretty sure this even applies to artwork that iTunes downloads, 
but inexplicably doesn’t stick into the ID3 Tags. Not that you’d ever want to 
store the artwork that way.

FYI, I just drag the artwork from http://www.slothradio.com/covers/ to the 
iTunes window. As you say in your post, doing this correctly embeds the artwork 
into the file.

As for artwork not appearing with the current release of the iTunes plug-in, in 
almost all cases, if you can see it in Finder and/or with QuickLook, you’ll see 
it in Quicksilver. If not, there was probably a recent change to those files 
that hasn’t worked its way though all the various places where icons are 
cached. I see random places where artwork doesn’t appear that I can’t explain, 
but in at least once case, running “Clear Custom Icon” (from the File Attribute 
Actions plug-in) has fixed that.

Off topic: You also complain that ratings aren’t embedded in the files’ 
metadata. Ratings are subjective and have more to do with the listener that the 
track. This is why iTunes (correctly) stores ratings in your library and not 
with the track itself.

-- 
Rob McBroom
<http://www.skurfer.com/>

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