I've been using iTunes to add album art to my music for quite some time now, as it's quick and easy. Recently, however, I started having an issue with it. Typically when I rip a new CD with iTunes (in Apple Lossless), I'll do a google image search for the album art, save it to a folder on my hard drive, highlight the tracks in iTunes, and drag the file into the album art pane.
In the past, the quality of the image I download would be reflected in the quality of the album art image in iTunes, but recently, iTunes seems to scale the image down, leaving a black border around the art in the album art pane and a poor quality image in Cover Flow.
Here's a screen shot of what I'm talking about:
You can see how the art does not fill the album art pane in the lower left, and you may be able to see how poor the quality of the image is compared to adjacent albums in cover flow. The original .jpg was 600x600, so it should be quite sharp and nice looking, but it looks like it would if I were to select a 200x200 or 300x300 original image.
So, can anyone shed some light on why iTunes suddenly started doing this and how I may be able to fix it?
In the past, the quality of the image I download would be reflected in the quality of the album art image in iTunes, but recently, iTunes seems to scale the image down, leaving a black border around the art in the album art pane and a poor quality image in Cover Flow.
Here's a screen shot of what I'm talking about:
You can see how the art does not fill the album art pane in the lower left, and you may be able to see how poor the quality of the image is compared to adjacent albums in cover flow. The original .jpg was 600x600, so it should be quite sharp and nice looking, but it looks like it would if I were to select a 200x200 or 300x300 original image.
So, can anyone shed some light on why iTunes suddenly started doing this and how I may be able to fix it?
