Album art...

I've got a little over 20GB of music but only about 1/3 of those songs have album art. I was wondering if there is an easy method to cover the rest without having to manually do it song by song.

I use WMP/iTunes currently. Most, if not all of my songs have proper track/album information, which sort of baffles me as to why most don't have the applicable album art. Heck, even if the art is from a different album I wouldn't care, something is better than nothing.

If anyone has any ideas I would highly appreciate it.

Thanks!

 

I was also looking for an automatic method

I tried on, and that totally wrecked all the tags of all my music, not just album art but artists and albums too [partially my fault ]
Still not done fixing them

However, this method that lifehacker gave is actually great
It takes a little longer as you have to do it album by album, but if all your tracks have album info it will be quicker than going track by track, and will look awesome when done

Good luck with 20Gb though ,
Hope this helps

 

That baffles me too. 99% of the time, if the tag info is correct then I have no problem retrieving album art.

Have you tried manually highlighting the tracks under Itunes, right click and then clicking "get album artwork"?

 

I use the easy method of finding the picture online and (right click- save picture as) and then renaming it folder.jpg and putting it in the appropriate folders for the album. Now it will show the cover when playing in WMP

 

Yup, I just tried that actually. For instance, song was from 2pac's greatest hits CD, not exactly a rare commodity, and it said that the art could not be found.

Problem is I've got about 4,100 songs. I need an automated method, man. lol.

Almost makes me wish I paid $1 a song on iTunes...
(not that I didn't pay for them)

 

Try tagrunner its not free but it have a good database and also u can add album arts for a whole album manually at one time

 

Give the method I gave you a try

They use media monkey, one album at a time and the database it uses is much better than iTunes'

 

Well, now none of my songs have artist information anymore....

Good thing I have a backup of my songs.

It's a lost cause I guess. Surprised some coder out there hasn't designed software that tries for album art and if it can't find the proper one, just gets any album art attributed to the singer. Oh well..

 

WHAT, lol

Which program did you use

 

Mediamonkey... lol
Can't say I followed that guide tit-for-tat though.
It was going smoothly for a few minutes but I've just got too many songs man, so I just highlighted everything and told it to find album art. Well, a few minutes later, all my songs were sung by some "unknown" character.

I deleted my collection and then restored it so it's all good.

Oh and I then uninstalled the monkey and extinct-ed his a$$.

 

im using this way
every album i buy/download always use TAGSCANNER to tag the albums [its free] and add the album art to the album once i save it and open Windows media player it will import the album automatically to my library with the album art maybe this will help you

 

LMAO

That damn monkey did the same to me the first time, I also didn't follow the guide

Only I didn't have a backup

I was able to salvage some, but its going to take a while to get them all back in order

 

Personally for me Media Monkey has worked out the best. It's not automatic and time consuming. However, it tags the songs very well. I use the older version of Media Monkey because I feel like it is easier to use and figure out. You can download it at filehippo. Just look for the most recent 2.5.5.xxx.

Here is the process I use for each new cd I want to tag:
1) Open media monkey and add the folder containing the cd to Media Monkey by clicking "File">"Add/rescan files to the library"
2) Next click on the Artist expansion on the left hand side and find the artist of the cd you added (If you can't find the artist it could be listed as unknown so check there)
3) When you find the artist expand the view to show the cds. Right click on the cd you added and choose "Auto-tag from Amazon" (you do need to be on the internet to do this obviously)
4) Click Auto-tag and tell it to try to save the image to the music file.

Then you should be done and just need to add that cd to iTunes or whatever you choose to use.

I do wish there was an automatic way to do this...but I haven't found anything. This method isn't too bad. You don't have to tag all your songs in one sitting.
Tim

 

Back in the days, Musicmatch player was my favorite tagger & getting album art from. That's about the only thing it was good for.

 

I gave TagRunner a shot and it worked relatively well. I tested it with about 15 songs and it had about a 30% success rating I would say. But to go through my entire collection it said it needed 50 hours, compounded with a ~30% success rating, it got uninstalled.

I found this program called Fixtunes, which I would definitely recommend giving a shot. It seemed to find album art, although sometimes it wouldn't be the right one, but anything is better than nothing as far as I am concerned. It's a very nice little program to be honest and it worked considerably well. Only problem is that I noticed that all of my album art in my music folder was gone. I don't know if I did something or it did something... suffice it to say I uninstalled it and restored my collection. I never thought I would use my music backup so many times.. lol.

But I will say this, in regard to Fixtunes, when I go out and get the ZuneHD or the next iTouch, it will be the program I use to get all the album art in my collection. I will just make sure to have a backup of my music in hand in case the art on my system gets messed up.