Comments on: fetching itunes album art in os x

Question: fetching itunes album art in os x

willmillar — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:44:31 -0800

i have a 12,000 track itunes music library in os x. some of the tracks (~10%) have album art with them, but most do not. all tracks are tagged properly, and in theory should all have album art with them. i've tried itunes built in fetcher and many third party programs for adding album art. i can't recall names of programs, but most were very poor and would crash or not work at all. i would like to fetch art all together, because i don't want to go through 12,000 songs track-by-track. any ideas? thanks! -will

By: ISeemToBeAVerb

ISeemToBeAVerb — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:14:10 -0800

Well, it's not totally automated, but art4itunes might help you out.

By: raconteur

raconteur — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:25:02 -0800

Have you tried MPFreaker? I found it to be amazing at scouring for album art. And it also had a propensity to crash. Here's what I found that makes it work: drop small batches of folders on the program (say, artists a-f, then g-m, so on) while its not running, and then leave your computer alone (perhaps do a batch every night). It's a resource hog, it's a bit temperamental, and the drop mode works a lot better than the full-program mode, but it does get the art, and I thought it did an excellent job.

By: filmgeek

filmgeek — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:44:54 -0800

All sorts of automation is in Corripio

By: bink

bink — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:45:34 -0800

Clutter works fairly well, once you get used to its quirks. You would have to do an album at a time, though, but you can just do them as you listen to music and it's pretty painless.

By: filmgeek

filmgeek — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:46:39 -0800

which would have been a better post with the link

Fetch Artwork, open source, Fix Tags, Edit Tags & Lyrics

By: Inspector.Gadget

Inspector.Gadget — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:51:07 -0800

Mp3Tag can retrieve album art from Discogs and several different Amazon domains. So far it has pulled tags and covers for all but the most obscure albums I own.