Managing iTunes cover art

February 8, 2007 12:28 PM

iTunes puts cover art in one of two places: embedded within the MP3s, or in a separate folder (~/Music/iTunes/Album Artwork). I prefer the latter. Is there a program that will take the embedded cover art out of my files and store it in the Album Artwork folder instead? I'm on an Intel Mac.
posted by danb to computers & internet (4 comments total)

I don't know of any way to do this with your own cover art.

If the iTunes Music Store sells the track, you can get info on the song, delete your existing cover art, then select the album and choose "Get Album Artwork" from the contextual pop-up menu.

If iTunes doesn't sell the track, you're out of luck.
posted by designbot at 1:03 PM on February 8, 2007

If iTunes doesn't sell the track, you're out of luck.

You're not out of luck. Just do a Google image search for the album, copy and paste.
posted by special-k at 2:16 PM on February 8, 2007

special-k writes "You're not out of luck. Just do a Google image search for the album, copy and paste."

I'm fairly certain that just embeds the artwork. danb doesn't want that.
posted by defenestration at 4:28 PM on February 8, 2007

Well, on Doug's Applescripts there's a way to do the opposite: To take non-embedded artwork and embed it. (Which I prefer: artwork can be per-song instead of per-album, and artwork should always travel with the song).
posted by yesno at 5:56 PM on February 8, 2007