Comments on: How to add CD art to mulitple tracks in iTunes?

Question: How to add CD art to mulitple tracks in iTunes?

randomthoughts — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:55:02 -0800

How to add CD art to mulitple tracks in iTunes?

I know how to add a missing CD art image to a single track in iTunes but is there a easy way to add them to all tracks for that CD?

By: smackfu

smackfu — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:57:10 -0800

Select them all, then drag the art to the little box in the left-bottom corner. Then wait 10 minutes.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:58:11 -0800

Make sure above the box it says Selected items, not Now Playing.

By: Lentrohamsanin

Lentrohamsanin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:58:20 -0800

1)Copy the album art.
2) Highlight the tracks you want to add it to.
3) Right Click and choose Get info from the menu.
4) Paste picture into the box on the right.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:58:59 -0800

You can also select tracks, get info, and drag the artwork into the box there.

By: phrayzee

phrayzee — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:07:59 -0800

If the album is in the iTunes Store and you have an iTS account, you can try "Get Album Artwork" from the Advanced menu.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:11:20 -0800

All methods above work equally well. Not to derail this question, and will repost elsewhere if inappropriate here, but why are certain iTunes fields not editable from iTunes? This makes no sense to me that you need to write a script (or get Lostify) in order to update the Description field. It would be nice to have access to that one in particular as it is searchable and the Comments field is not. Any idea what Apple does this?

By: designbot

designbot — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:24:09 -0800

It would be nice to have access to that one in particular as it is searchable and the Comments field is not.

A quick test indicates that the Comments field is included in search results. (iTunes 7.6.1, Mac OS 10.5.2)

By: psmealey

psmealey — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:31:59 -0800

I was thinking about the search window in iTunes (I have the latest v, whichever that is). If you start typing in the search window, it will return results that match the description field, but not the comments... or, I could have sworn that was the case.

Even so, my original question stands, why does Apple not want to give users access to the Description field. Just seems odd not to.

By: nomisxid

nomisxid — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:19:35 -0800

I suspect the Description field isn't actually stored locally, but is the AMG data pulled from the iTunes store.

By: KenManiac

KenManiac — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:26:21 -0800

to make the comments field searchable, go to view options and click on comments. if it's not in the view, it doesn't get searched.

at least for me, on a mac.

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:09:23 -0800

Lentrohamsanin's method is the one I always use.

By: mphung

mphung — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:24:27 -0800

On a Mac, highlight all the songs from the same album (open apple-shift), then go to a website that has the album cover art. Right click on the album and drag it into the box. That's it.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:23:48 -0800

For what it's worth, Amazon.com is the best site I've found for finding album covers. As they do a healthy trade in used cd's they have a pretty extensive collection of some pretty obscure stuff that CD Universe and similar sites won't have.

By: phaded

phaded — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:02:43 -0800

Select all the files in question, hit Ctrl/Cmd+I (depending on what operating system you use), drag the art file to the art box, hit OK.