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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / October 2006Finding iTunes Album Cover Art
I'm not having much luck getting iTunes album cover art from Apple or Amazon (too many old, Eastern European classical CDs that neither iTunes Store nor Amazon have heard of). However with the new views in iTunes 7, it would be nice to have more than about 1% of my albums having cover art. Does anyone have any suggestions about methods for getting cover art? Scanning the original CDs would be pretty painful (plus I'd have to buy a scanner). I have contemplated taking close ups of the CDs with a digital camera so I could put them into iPhoto, and then drag the photos to iTunes. Since the CDs are classical, I am not even totally convinced I need the original covers. Something generic might be fine. For example, a painting of Mozart for all the Mozart, and some appropriate text over each one might be just as much use as the original covers. Has anyone else had the same problem, and already found a solution?  Signaturehttp://www.ericlindsay.com > Since the CDs are classical, I am not even totally convinced I need the > original covers. Something generic might be fine. For example, a > painting of Mozart for all the Mozart, and some appropriate text over > each one might be just as much use as the original covers. > > Has anyone else had the same problem, and already found a solution? Hi I don't have any cover art at all on my iTunes 7.0.1. I listen to classical music and so the browser is full of music simply copied in from my CDs. However reading your post it has occurred to me that if you want a picture for the cover art space maybe you could just use a portrait of the composer from somewhere on the web. Wikipedia has an entry for most composers, at least I haven't yet found a composer they don't have an entry for. Anyway if you go to the relevant Wikipedia page there is very often a picture of the composer there. W. A. Mozart is looking quite chipper here don't you think? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart> There isn't always a pic though, Elliot Carter hasn't got one, poor fellow :( <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Carter> You could have Alfred Schnittke in profile if you like: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Schnittke> P.S. Hooray for polystylism! SignaturePatrick Brighton, UK In article <NOwebmasterSPAM-28885F.20415315102006@freenews.iinet.net.au>, > I'm not having much luck getting iTunes album cover art from Apple or > Amazon (too many old, Eastern European classical CDs that neither iTunes > Store nor Amazon have heard of). However with the new views in iTunes 7, > it would be nice to have more than about 1% of my albums having cover > art. > Has anyone else had the same problem, and already found a solution? Let Google (or your search engine of choice) be your friend. Do a search on your album title, or artist or composer and either browse through the results or click on the Images tab, you may be surprised at what you find. I do it almost daily, sometimes several times a day. > Let Google (or your search engine of choice) be your friend. Do a search > on your album title, or artist or composer and either browse through the > results or click on the Images tab, you may be surprised at what you > find. There are a few Dashboard widgets and AppleScripts out there that can automate this search somewhat as well, searching Google for the currently selected or currently playing album. > > Let Google (or your search engine of choice) be your friend. Do a search > > on your album title, or artist or composer and either browse through the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > automate this search somewhat as well, searching Google for the > currently selected or currently playing album. I've been trying out 'Clutter' for this. It searches Amazon by default, and will search Google on request. When you find an image you like, you can simply paste it into the Clutter window, which would work for photos or scanned images too. http://www.sprote.com/clutter/ SignaturePaul Sture > I've been trying out 'Clutter' for this. It searches Amazon by default, > and will search Google on request. When you find an image you like, you > can simply paste it into the Clutter window, which would work for photos > or scanned images too. > > http://www.sprote.com/clutter/ I like this one, it takes much of the drudgery out of finding album art. Signature^Ï^ > I'm not having much luck getting iTunes album cover art from Apple or > Amazon (too many old, Eastern European classical CDs that neither iTunes [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Has anyone else had the same problem, and already found a solution? I use the Amazon Art widget for that. The AlbumArt widget was nice as well, but doesn't seem to work anymore. Furthermore, the Discogs widget and the iGoogle widget are great helpers for this. But there are several other programs on the market. Search for "Album Art" at osx.hyperjeff.net/apps or macupdate.com. SignatureSZ > > I'm not having much luck getting iTunes album cover art from Apple or > > Amazon (too many old, Eastern European classical CDs that neither iTunes [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > But there are several other programs on the market. Search for "Album > Art" at osx.hyperjeff.net/apps or macupdate.com. Thanks for the hints, but so far they are not actually solving the problem of finding album art. As I mentioned, I had tried Apple and Amazon. I failed to mention that I had also tried Google (hard to structure relevant searches that didn't exclude too much) and later Google Images (slightly better). I just tried The Widget Factory's Amazon Album Art widget (which I hope is the one you mean). I noticed the LiquidX Album Art widget had several comments that it didn't work with iTunes 7.01, so I didn't try that. Of the first 16 albums I tried, the widget found 5 covers, of which 4 were for the wrong album (3 of them not even the same artists). It did find one Deutsche Grammophon cover correctly. It basically seems to provide a faster way of discovering that you can't find a cover. I guess that is better than a failed search I did manually, so I thank you for pointing out that widget to me. The problem seems to be the sources. Amazon rather naturally doesn't have many album covers from 1990's classical music CDs of (mostly Eastern European orchestras) distributed by outfits like Pilz and Orbis. I did slightly better checking eBay, but as I recall, out of 800 potential hits I looked at, I only got about 12 relevant covers (for the 200 CDs I was seeking). May try testing every album art program available, to see if one happens to fit my CDs better than the rest. Further hints would be welcome. Signaturehttp://www.ericlindsay.com > > > Does anyone have any suggestions about methods for getting cover art? As long as we're on cover art: What is the incantation for making the new iTunes NOT ask, every time it starts, whether I want to connect to their source of cover art? In the past 10 years or so, a lot of programs have picked up the idea of offering not to show a message over and over forever, but if itunes is offering anything of that sort, they've hidden it pretty well. SignatureDan Drake dd@dandrake.com http://www.dandrake.com/ porlockjr.blogspot.com > What is the incantation for making the new iTunes NOT ask, every time it > starts, whether I want to connect to their source of cover art? > In the past 10 years or so, a lot of programs have picked up the idea of > offering not to show a message over and over forever, but if itunes is > offering anything of that sort, they've hidden it pretty well. Hidden? First Preference panel has an option "Automatically download missing artwork" ... leave it unchecked. SignatureAdrian > The problem seems to be the sources. Amazon rather naturally doesn't > have many album covers from 1990's classical music CDs of (mostly > Eastern European orchestras) distributed by outfits like Pilz and Orbis. > I did slightly better checking eBay, but as I recall, out of 800 > potential hits I looked at, I only got about 12 relevant covers (for the > 200 CDs I was seeking). I'm afraid that this works better with pop music than classical music. SignatureSZ > I'm not having much luck getting iTunes album cover art from Apple or > Amazon (too many old, Eastern European classical CDs that neither [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Has anyone else had the same problem, and already found a solution? I do use www.allmusic.com when some cover art is harder to find and the Amazon search plugin doesn't work. They also tend to have slightly better resolution pics than Amazon which makes a difference with CoverFLow. Of course, you have to generally search the album/artist [and make sure you look beyond just Discography - go to Singles and Compilations too] Signaturesi vis pacem para bellum > > I'm not having much luck getting iTunes album cover art from Apple or > > Amazon (too many old, Eastern European classical CDs that neither [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > [and make sure you look beyond just Discography - go to Singles and > Compilations too] You can also try Corripio. I have a collection of 60 Classical CDs that I bought in Spain and iTunes can never find appropriate cover art. With Corripio I have about a 90% success rate in finding something appropriate. I do have a scanner, so for the other 10% I just scan the covers. Don If iTunes could not give me the artwork for my cd's, I either scanned in my CD covers and added them manually, or I googled the CD and got the artwork there. In article <NOwebmasterSPAM-28885F.20415315102006@freenews.iinet.net.au>, Eric Lindsay <NOwebmasterSPAM@ericlindsay.com> wrote: > I'm not having much luck getting iTunes album cover art from Apple or > Amazon (too many old, Eastern European classical CDs that neither iTunes [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Has anyone else had the same problem, and already found a solution? > In article > <NOwebmasterSPAM-28885F.20415315102006@freenews.iinet.net.au>, Eric [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > > > Has anyone else had the same problem, and already found a solution? > If iTunes could not give me the artwork for my cd's, I either scanned > in my CD covers and added them manually, or I googled the CD and got > the artwork there. I've just been struggling with a few classical CDs from Germany and Eastern Europe. Neither Google nor Amazon have any trace of them. For the moment I've dug out portraits of the composers, but it appears that scanning is the way to go. SignaturePaul Sture |
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