Comments on: Updated: How-To Download album art from iTunes

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:34:56 +0000

Well, script doesn’t seem to work, but it is obsolete anyways, because iTunes has now functionality that does that :)

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:40:52 +0000

:( It’s broke!

By: jonppaa

jonppaa — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:57:58 +0000

oh no… i think it isn’t working anymore!

By: matt

matt — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:00:09 +0000

is it just me, or does it not work anymore??

By: jon

jon — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:37:33 +0000

so where is the script?

By: matt

matt — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:02:18 +0000

thanks for the info Roland, but I have a few questions:

1. Why would someone make a script like this if iTunes really does give you 600×600 and all you have to do is copy+paste the cover to your mp3?

2. How do you know that the album art is not stored on the actual mp3 if it is added by the iTunes album-cover-function?

thx!

By: Roland

Roland — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:27:03 +0000

Hello Matt,

for some reason, iTunes doesn’t show the high res version of the automatically downloaded covers. Try this: let iTunes download the cover for a song, right click on that little cover window (left bottom of itunes) and say “copy”. view that image in some image viewer like irfanview or xnview. When you copy the cover, iTunes gives you the 600*600 version.
Another annoying thing with iTunes 7 “auto-cover-function” is, that itunes does not put the cover into the mp3s. It stores them elsewhere.
So here is what I do: I let iTunes fetch the covers, right-click-copy the cover, open “information” for all songs of an album and insert the cover. That way, the cover is in the mp3 and it is the high res version.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:51:57 +0000

ok, well I personally am not getting the 600×600 covers when I manually search for them in iTunes 7. Isn’t it confirmed that iTunes 7 does NOT provide 600×600 album art?? why are some people saying otherwise?

By: so

so — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:54:41 +0000

This is only given me “clean” art covers. How do i get the covers for the explicit albums.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:26:00 +0000

I’ll make the update Alex