Adding CD Album Covers to your Apple Ipod Cover Flow in Itunes
Step By Step Instructions on Manually Adding CD Album Art to Your
Ipod
Is Your Album Artwork Missing from your Ipod Itunes Cover Flow?
When you first set up your Apple Itunes to convert songs from your computer
it will automatically convert many of your songs and add their specific album
covers. But, Apple Itunes will not add all of your cover art and you may need to
do it yourself manually. Here's how to do it. Basically, this
process takes a little time to do, but you can add whatever pictures you want to
your cover flow. This allows you to personalize the cover flow feature of
your Apple Ipod 80G, 160gb, and whatever other models have the cover flow
function. I had a hard time figuring out how to do this, so I decided to
put up this page to help. Hope this at least helps you get your CD Artwork
to your Ipod.
Follow these Step by Step Instructions to easily manually add cover art to
your Ipod (This process is used for Apple Itunes Version 7.6, but may work in
other versions):
Try joining the Apple Itunes Store - You will need to put your
credit card info in to join, but you can get the Album Artwork for Free once
you join. Once you join the Apple Itunes Store you can go into your
music library and add artwork to your music. To add CD artwork to all
your music select all your songs in List View then right click and choose
Get Album Artwork. To add artwork for single albums go to Album View & Right
Click on the first song and choose Get Album Artwork. This will not
get you every piece of CD Artwork you need as the Itunes Store does not
carry every single album that's in your collection. You will need to
read below to find out how to add artwork manually to the rest of your music
collection. artwork.
To Manually Add CD Cover Artwork - Go To Album View - Once you have entered Itunes make sure your
are in your Music Library. The first way to add album art to your
Itunes cover flow feature is to go into the Album View in the View menu at
the top of Itunes. The other way to get to Album View is look towards
the top right of the itunes page and look for 3 buttons above the word view.
You will want to pick the middle button. The best way to know your in
Album view is when the CD Cover is showing on the left and the songs in the
album are listed to the right of the CD album picture.
Click on the First Song of the Album you would like to add Album Cover Art- When you click on the first song it will highlight in blue.
Also, you will now notice where it said Now Playing at the bottom left of
the screen, it will now say Selected Item. Underneath Selected Album
it will say Drag Album Artwork Here.
This is where you can paste your
album artwork.
Go to a Site that you can find Album Artwork and Pictures - Try going to Amazon.com
or
Google Image Search
and search for your specific band and or album artwork. You can right
click and copy on any of the images you find. The great thing about
adding artwork manually is you can pretty much choose any picture you would
like to add to each CD. Helps to personalize your Itune music
collection for you Ipod.
Copy Image to Itunes - Go to the bottom left of Itunes and
underneath Selected Item right click and paste your image in the box that
says Drag Album Artwork Here (This shows in a box with dotted lines). Once you paste the Image it will show
next to the songs or CD you chose to add artwork.
Another Way to Add Album Artwork - Right Click on the first song
of the CD / Album that you would like to add artwork. Pick GET INFO.
Click on the Artwork Tab. Go and find your image and copy it to this
artwork tab. Once you click ok, the artwork will add to the cover
flow. Just a couple notes. You can also add Lyrics, Album Info
(In the Info Tab), and more. Also in the info tab you can add Year the
CD came out, Album names, Composer Info, and more.
Of course there are other ways and sites to help you add artwork to your
Apple Ipod cover flow, but this at least will get you moving in the right
direction. Some sites have you export your song list and they will give
you the artwork. www.art4itunes.com
is one example. While this is helpful, it doesn't seem to list the
covers etc in any particular order. So if you have a lot of music to add
artwork too, this may not be the fastest way to do it in hindsight. But,
give a try and see for yourself.
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