Itunes in need of Spring Cleaning

May 7, 2011 3:42 AM

Is there any way to clean up the cover art on for podcasts on Itunes?

For some reason, the same podcast will put the same cover art on I tunes several times. I have one cover for WTF, and one for This American Life, but I have to go through 7 covers of Joe Rogan to get there. Is there any way to clean this up?

posted by DTHEASH1 to Technology (1 answer total)

There are always multiple copies of the cover art (there's one copy embedded in the file for every episode)—so that's not actually the issue. My thought is that the issue is the way iTunes groups individual tracks together into an "album" and thus decides when to show you just one piece of artwork.

I tried subscribing to the podcast you mentioned and it looks like it has no "artist" tag at all. If you select all the tracks for the podcast and hit Get Info (it's Command-I on a Mac, but I don't know the PC version shortcut) you can change the tags that should be the same for all the tracks (artist, album) so they match.

Then iTunes should group them together as an album the way you would expect.

You can also email someone at his website and ask them to provide better tags in the podcast, so it won't keep happening every time there's a new episode.
posted by bcwinters at 4:28 AM on May 7, 2011