Jim, You are a treasure! I have scanned some of the album covers and I tried your method and IT WORKS.
Thanks so much. Harry Tuesday, March 1, 20118:52 PMJim [email protected] >What I've done is find the CD listing on Amazon.com and drag and drop >the album cover image from there into the album's Get Info window in >iTunes. It's tedius work, but I hate those many blank or occasionally >erroneous album covers in my iTunes album view. > >Jim > >On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > >> My iTunes has been screwed up for months. Somehow I ended up with two >> music folder in my iTunes music folder (I'm sure it's something I did >> inadvertently). Anyway, my iPod ended up with only partial song lists >> from most albums and a very depleted list of albums. In addition, >> there >> were strange files in many of the album folders ( for instance, "In my >> life.icns" and "11 Pastures Of Plenty.rsrc"). Also in most of the >> album >> folders the songs were duplicated and in a few instances tripled. >> >> Well this weekend I bit the bullet, as it were, copied my iTunes >> folder >> onto an external disk, then deleted the iTunes folder and iTunes >> preferences. >> >> Next I pulled 20 CDs off my shelves and looked for them in my itunes >> folder on the external hard drive. I thought I was going to have to >> import the CDs into my computer again but as I began to experiment I >> found that if I just double clicked the songs they were automatically >> imported into my iTunes library. In some instances part of each album >> was in each of the two music folders on the external drive. >> >> As it stands I've successfully moved 64 albums (926 songs) from my old >> iTunes folder into the new/rejuvenated iTunes in my system. >> >> I have also successfully loaded those tunes into my iPod. >> >> Some of the music I ported over came with Art Work but for a good many >> of the albums there was no art. I used the get album Art Work menu >> item >> (under the Advanced menu) to get the art work. iTunes found most of >> the >> missing art work but in several instances the album art is different >> than the art for my CD and there are several albums for which iTunes >> cannot find art work. >> >> I have tried to use the Art Collector app to find missing art work but >> with no success. >> >> How can I get artwork for the albums which iTunes cannot find? and how >> can I replace the wrong album art with the correct album art? >> >> Your help will be greatly appreciated. >> >> Harry >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >MacGroup mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
