[steinba]

I have a new iPod Classic on the way, and from what I understand, they're making a big thing out of this "Coverflow" feature. I have ripped, downloaded and otherwise aquired my rather substantial collection of music myself, and will probably never buy a single song from iTunes. So, I was wondering: What's the easiest/best way to get the cover art for my albums on to my ipod without buying it from iTunes? Surely there must be a way to get this working or free?

Also: Is the format of file and folder names very important for things to look good/right on the iPod? If so: How should it be arranged? Any quick fixes for that available as well?

Thanks a lot in advance.

 

[krmathis]

You can search Google Images for album art, then copy/paste the picture into iTunes.
Or head over to Doug's AppleScripts, looking if you find a suitable script to automatize the process.

 

[Coop47]

I'm finding that it's easier to find correctly sized album art on Amazon.com or (as a back-up) allmusic.com. With Google Images, there are almost too many choices, and some of them don't look quite right in iTunes.

 

[powasky]

I'm using iTunes and I don't have to buy cover art. The album sits in my library, I right click on it and click "get cover art" and it gets the cover art. I haven't seen any charges on my card yet from iTunes, so hopefully it's free!

 

[Agnostic]

If Itunes has the album you can get the cover art for free even if you didn't buy the music from Itunes. I think there's even an option to automatically get missing album art from itunes. I think you may need to register an itunes account though, can't remember for sure because I'm using J.River instead of itunes.

 

[BigTony]

As long as you have an itunes account it will get your artwork for free. Of course, should you then click on buy they now have your payment details!

 

[Jubei]

Media Monkey will download and save the album art as tag into the MP3 as well.

 

[Low Fidelity]

...or you can download covers from various websites like allcdcovers.com and cdcovers.cc

I prefer my Album art to be 500x500 and i'm really digging amazon allowing uploads of cover scans.

i've found though, a quick blast of photoshop is sometimes needed to resize and tidy things up.

Tag & Rename found at softpointer.com is a great way to get my tags right. I've had trouble with Media Monkey's tagging.

Nothing ruins a listen like the tag being all fubar'd.

I'm OCD like that.

 

[steinba]

Thanks! I'll look into those. I think I'll give Media Monkey a shot first, so maybe I won't have to sit and look for hundreds of covers manually.

 

[Chri5peed]

SlothRadio: CD / DVD Album Art Cover Search

 

[ahmed]

Check this link :
Fix your music library: song names, album art, automatically! :: The Tux Geek
btw why don't you get iTunes account ? it's really good and free charge to get album cover.

 

[mik000000]

a good source for some of the more obsccure albums covers is emusic

http://www.emusic.com/search

 

[Chri5peed]

My sloth link has never failed me, I listen to some fairly unheard of bands.