iTunes questions

BEN_UK · 22 Dec 2008 at 23:22

Hello,

Started using iTunes for the first time to try and sort/organize my music collection.

First of all copied a few music disks to the libary so far, but no art work has been applied to them ??? says i have to create an account but is asking for credit card details when creating account. Any way round getting art work other than making account and having to give card details.

Also how can use combined to music albums ? copied the disk and 11 songs in one album folder and just 1 song on its own in another. How can i get them back in the same 1 folder ?

Thanks Ben

unknowndomain · 23 Dec 2008 at 00:14

I think you have to give details.

unknowndomain · 23 Dec 2008 at 00:15

BEN_UK said:
Also how can use combined to music albums ? copied the disk and 11 songs in one album folder and just 1 song on its own in another. How can i get them back in the same 1 folder ?

Sorry... Also it probably thinks the other song it part of disk 2, so right click > get info and see if it thinks they are from different disks or if there is different spelling/caps/spacing on them

BEN_UK · 23 Dec 2008 at 10:28

unknowndomain said:
Sorry... Also it probably thinks the other song it part of disk 2, so right click > get info and see if it thinks they are from different disks or if there is different spelling/caps/spacing on them

Sorted

Any idea on the artwork question ?

Cheers.

Slogan · 23 Dec 2008 at 10:31

You have to set up an account to retrieve artwork. However, if you're up for it and want to manually do it. Select all the songs on an album, go to 'Get Info' and in there you'll see the Artwork box.

Tick it and drag in your artwork (usually from a browser). iTunes will tie the song and artwork together into the same file so you don't have to worry about having the image on your computer.

unknowndomain · 23 Dec 2008 at 14:29

BEN_UK said:
Sorted

Any idea on the artwork question ?

Cheers.

Yeah you need an account / sign up with a credit card, I know its not always seen as the best thing to do but in 4/5 years I have never had a problem with the iTunes store charging me wrong, loosing my information or stealing from me, they are a big well known company running Mac (unix based systems) I think they are probably safe enough to trust your details with if you do want to get an account

Speedy · 25 Dec 2008 at 10:58

BEN_UK said:
Any idea on the artwork question ?

As an alternative, you could also select the entire album, right-click > Info. Then Google for the artwork, and drag the image into the white rectangle.

ilikedthecore · 25 Dec 2008 at 13:55

I think you can create an iTunes account giving your card details and then once it is setup you can remove your card details, leaving none on record. Not as good as never having to use your card but one way around it.

Euro_Hunter · 28 Dec 2008 at 12:55

Speedy said:
As an alternative, you could also select the entire album, right-click > Info. Then Google for the artwork, and drag the image into the white rectangle.

This is what I do works very well and you get to choose which artwork you want.

Feek · 28 Dec 2008 at 13:05

I use CoverScout 3 for album art, it searches a lot more places than you can quickly do and it embeds the art into the tracks properly which iTunes doesn't do. If you manually add art within iTunes then it uses its own database so if you then use the tracks elsewhere then they lose their art.

Euro_Hunter · 28 Dec 2008 at 13:26

Feek said:
I use CoverScout 3 for album art, it searches a lot more places than you can quickly do and it embeds the art into the tracks properly which iTunes doesn't do. If you manually add art within iTunes then it uses its own database so if you then use the tracks elsewhere then they lose their art.

That one looks good pity theres no Windows version.

These kind of programs are great for popular music but I listen to mainly 80's & 90's metal a lot of which was pretty hard to find then so not much chance of finding covers on the sites which these search. So I just use google image search which nearly always brings up some image although not always high quality.