How do I add album artwork to my Apple iTunes library?

That niffty click in the library is nice. However, I find that google image search is just the thing for the albums it misses. Simply set your browser window and iTunes side by side. Highlight all the titles in the album missing the artwork, click on your browser google the album artwork and drag from the browser into the art box on group view.

thanx for the help! :)

Art4itunes.com makes quick work of taking my iTunes Library and finding about 75% of the album artwork that the iTunes Store can't. I use it whenever I need to do an overhaul of iTunes or have to create a new Library. Just Drag and Drop the Image from your web browser to the image well in the Get Info window of all the track in the album, like the above comment says. Yeah, its manual, which sucks, but anyone got a better way to do this?

For the album art that can't be retrieved by selecting "get album art". Simply Google the name of the album/artist and select Image instead of Web and you will 9/10 times find the album art. In iTunes, click on the album you want to add the art to. Go to FILE, GET INFO, ALBUM ART. Then add and find where you've saved the album art on your desktop. Phew seems like hard work, but i did about 50 albums over one hour.

Have you tried FixTunes. Check your songs agains an online database, correct the song details and it will be the easiest of things finding the album art at itunes store. Premium edition of Fixtunes een gets dat for you

Hi Dave,

I had the same problem (lots of music, no covers) a few years ago and decided to make a website that did the job for me, because Google's image search can be a bit hit and miss.

Now that iTunes has the cover search feature it is a bit easier but as you say it isn't perfect - so you might find CoverHunt.com useful for the rest :)

Cheers, Ross

cheers dave for sorting my album covers out nice one

This in theory works, but you have to have an itunes music store account, to have one of these you need a credit card with a billing address in US, UK or AUS, so if you live in South Africa, you are still a bit screwed....

do i have to have an itune account to get artwork,if so what is the charge? and is it per album or per month and can i close the account when done?

ive changed the album artwork more than once from my own pictures
but when i changed the album cover, the first picture keeps showing up
how do i get rid of the old album cover?

I tried what you said about getting album art work but it keeps saying error 3005

I recently purchased Fixtunes for iTunes and started processing my library of about 5,000 songs. While Fixtunes does have some nice features and configurable options, I don't believe it's ready for "prime time" on OS X 10.5 at least. Here are some noted drawbacks:

1. Operation. Has been iffy at best. I've had quite a few crashes and freezes. My system is relatively "clean" and my MBP is only a few weeks old. It uses a proprietary server to compare the updates to and operation is slower than I would have expected. It takes almost a second per song and with 5000 songs, it's not just a quick process even if it doesn't crash. I have fiber to my house and run sustained D/L speeds of about 4MB/sec to my 2.4Ghz, 4GB ram MBP. I know the
slowness is not an issue on my end.

2. Support. You'd think purchasing the program would give you access to a different level of support, not. It seems the "support" system is
via a user forum. I tried to register in the forum and got repeated "database" errors. Those kinds of errors are a backend issue and not a
client problem. So not being able to even register to post a question about my problem, I was left to use their "billing issue only" web
contact to tell them my forum and product issues. They say there's a 24 hour turnaround time. The clock is ticking and I'll update tomorrow
as to how true that claim is.

As it stands right now, it's not worth $25 without some bug fixes and dedicated support for users who purchase the program. Another issue is
the trial. The trial only works for 50 songs and unfortunately that's not long enough to see technical issues such as frequent crashes. In
addition, the site shows version 5.32 for download for Mac. when you run it and click on "About" it shows version 5.31. Indicative of poor
code quality assurance. For that to get out the door without being caught is very sloppy.

OK, that is great, but what if you are South African and cannot purchase music from the itunes store. Is there a way around it where I can at least get the album artwork?

Does this cost or is it free?

It's June 2010 as I write this , and 'm running iTune 9.x on Leopard

I attempted to get album artwork , but Apple apparently won't let you do that without an iTunes Store account. All my music in the iT library is ripped from personal CD's.

I do not have a credit card. I use a Debit card instead. I don;t care to have an Apple iTunes account at all. It's not worth it in Wyoming where none of the iPhone iPad iTouch stuff even has a network to talk to.

Apple's " walled garden" approach to digital stuff is annoying. Either that or they are trying to be the upscale Wal-mart of the Internet. Oh well.

I decided to get creative with the other half and started importing my artwork from my hard drive. If you can't find the intended I thought it would be fun to slap a digital sticker on the blank space. Feel free to visit my iTunes Art Library here: http://www.demonpack.com/itunes.html

The only problem here is that if the song or artist is misspelled it will not find the artwork.

The only site I've been able to find that will fix the songs track names, add the album art, and even remove duplicate songs is at: www.nodoops.info

Just my 2 cents. I used to do this the hard way, not anymore.