Manually Adding Cover Art to iTunes

[Jokester]

How do I do this, and does anyone have any good sites for getting cover art from?

Is it a case of embedding the cover into the mp3 using something like mp3tag?

I'm on the Windows version if it makes any difference *boo hiss* etc etc.

 

[Brian8bit]

With iTunes open, right click the album and select get album artwork. If it can't find it, download the cover manually, right click the album and select "get info" then drag and drop the album cover to the "artwork" box.

Doing it on the album in the main display will embed it in all the tracks. If you're in album list view and select a track and embed the art, you'll have to do it for each individual track.

 

[V_R]

I use MP3tag to tag all my music then import it to iTunes, best way IMO.

 

[Jokester]

Found a site called Discogs for cover art, had everything I've looked for on it so far.

 

[memyselfandi]

With iTunes open, right click the album and select get album artwork. If it can't find it, download the cover manually, right click the album and select "get info" then drag and drop the album cover to the "artwork" box.

Doing it on the album in the main display will embed it in all the tracks. If you're in album list view and select a track and embed the art, you'll have to do it for each individual track.

This is what I normally do, although if you are in album list view you can select all the tracks in a album and then "get info" and add the art to all the tracks at once.

I tend to use the rainforest site quite often to find artwork (most of my CD's which don't have artwork in iTunes are foreign so I tend to use the Japanese rainforest site).

 

[AbsenceJam]

You can just select the tracks and drag the artwork straight to the square at the bottom left, don't need to go deeper.

 

[PardonTheWait]

http://art4itunes.com/ is quite handy

 

[a33a]

You could use MediaMonkey, to embed the album art into the MP3. (it uses Amazon). Then re-import into iTunes.