iTunes 7 will get album art but not insert it into the music file. it will store it in its own folder for (currently) exclusive use by iTunes and iPods.
This isn't much of a problem. You can easily manually COPY and PASTE the artwork from the main iTunes view into selected tracks to force it to store within the tag metadata of the files. Detailed instructions: http://twistedmelon.com/blog/sep2006.html For Windows, use CTRL instead of "Command" to copy and paste where instructed. If you have only a few albums worth of tunes this isn't very cumbersome. if you have a lot of music then you'll want to automate the process with a script. In Mac OS X you can use AppleScript and there are a couple of existing scripts to do the job. Get one here (inspired by above instructions): http://nslog.com/2006/09/24/itunes_artwork_in_id3/ Someone else will have to offer up a Windows-specific script/automated alternative. The two best sources for album artwork on the net (bar none) are iTunes and RateYourMusic.com To Rip in Windows, use EAC or AudioGrabber. To Encode to MP3 use LAME. Do anything other than the above for MP3 and you're wasting your time. For FLAC see http://Xiph.org -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com) | 'mira - Personal Control for your Apple Remote' (http://twistedmelon.com)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30715 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
