On Mar 24, 10:32 pm, Po-en Tsai <[email protected]> wrote:
> i have a imac g3 350mhz and all is well... maybe something to do with
> ur gfx card?
That's what it's looking like. See below.
>
> On 3/25/09, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The actual live screen? I agree, pretty cool but useless!
I agree.
>
> > The 'Get Album Art' command in iTunes only looks for album art in
> > tracks from the iTunes Store.
I have to disagree with this statement, however (unless maybe I'm not
understanding what you're saying). I don't have iTunes on any other
machine but the iMac. As far as I know, the Windows machine that is
sharing these MP3 files doesn't have album artwork downloaded for
these tracks. I don't download songs from iTunes store. I think
iTunes actually pulled in the Album Artwork when I told it to Get
Album Artwork. I know it took long enough. In the end it gave me a
list tracks that it couldn't find artwork for. While Cover Flow
wasn't working, the Grid View did show album artwork.
> > You can use other utilities to retrieve album art for non-iTunes music
> > from other sources, like Album Cover Finder <http://
> > amphonicdesigns.com/> or the three utilities here <http://tinyurl.com/d5ay6j
> > >.
Thanks for these links. I will take a look and see if these programs
can help me with my on going album artwork problem at home (one MP3
library on a Windows XP machine, Windows Media Player, WinAmp, and
Macs running iTunes -- tired of looking at incorrect album artwork.)
> > It could also have something to do with where the library is located,
> > yes. Is it an iTune library on the Win2K box or just a file share? If
> > it's an iTunes lib, you need to get the album art on the host machine,
> > not the Mac.
Looks like the problem wasn't the fact that the files were on a remote
Windows share. According to System Profiler, this iMac has the ATI
Rage 128 Pro video adapter with 8MB of VRAM. If I change the
resolution and color depth to anything but 1024x768 AND Millions of
colors, the Cover Flow feature works fine. I guess it's just that
it's sucking up too much VRAM with that combination (although
everything else works fine). On the plus side, it still looks decent
when set to Thousands and probably performs just a hair better.
Thanks again.
Lonnie.
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