TuneUp Tip #6: Cover Art
By Tiffany | Published:
February 4, 2010
One of the best parts of your music collection is always going to be the pictorial representation of the albums. Cover art provides that great eye candy for your listening pleasure. Which is why TuneUp cares so much about the artwork inserted in your collection. Here’s some pointers to getting all the best cover art in your iTunes:
Using the “Cover Art” Tab: This is the main feature for finding album art in your collection. When you launch TuneUp, it begins to scan your whole collection for missing artwork. So if it takes some time, don’t worry, it’s just working to find all those nasty grey music notes. Once it’s found all the data, you can see the albums that are missing a cover. Simply select from the four options. These are search results from places like Amazon and Google Images and they are usually the highest resolution we can find. Hovering over the selection, you can see the details of the art by clicking the magnifying glass in the corner. This is, without a doubt, the best way to fill the gaps in your Cover Flow.
Using the “Clean” Tab: Our Clean feature also finds the album art. When you run the Clean tab it will give you an option for album artwork. You can click on the picture of the art and select the best image. Hovering over the option will allow you to see the resolution. Select the option you like most (to look at) and click Save to commit the change into your library.
Rewriting Cover Art: It is very important to note that TuneUp cannot rewrite over existing cover art. This means that if you want to replace an incorrect piece of artwork you’re going to have to delete it through iTunes. You can do this easily to multiple albums by selecting the tracks/albums in your library, go to File, click ‘Get Info’, then select the ‘Artwork’ tab. Click on the incorrect album art and then hit ‘Delete’. After doing this, you will be able to see the album(s) in the Cover Art tab and get the perfect art for your precious music collection!
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3 Comments
i have found your program quite frustrating. i purchased it to ‘clean up’ my itunes and it taking forever to do, which is sort of what i wanted to avoid. 2 things- firstly, it doesnt marry up albums, so instead of having one piece of album art i have 2 for the same album. secondly, you cant replace faulty album art. what the hell is the point? do i need to go through a 100gig of music and change each piece of album art? as far as im concerned, you are misleading people into buying your product.not happy.
Hi there. To address you comment, you can normalize albums (see this post: http://blog.prd.tuneupmedia.com/blogindex.php/2010/07/tip-15-normalizing-results-aka-no-track-left-behind/) which could help with your issue. And yes, we cannot over-ride album art, but this is merely a function within iTunes itself. We are certainly not trying to be misleading – we fill in missing cover art. You can manually batch-remove album art for any given mismatches and then have TuneUp fill it in. Either way, we are sorry to hear you feel that way and hope we can make your experience better.
ps: a point to make…. perhaps the world needs digital companies that sell good, user friendly products and spend less time on juvenile and dated corporate ID’s. do you also think spending time and money integrating FB and Twitter feeds was worth it? are user going to ‘share’ about music that been sitting on their HDs for years?