Music player album covers

  o hey i figured it out (Well in my case) sorry i did not know this thread was still going thanks for all your help guys.

what i figured out is that if the art was .jpeg it would not show on the touch but .gif would......hope that helps some of you out

Well I finally have the album art situation all figured out (on Mac that is, not sure if it will be exact same for PC er's).  My experience is that the art does not show up on the phone with mp3 files.  I embedded it, and even see them all as the icons (instead of seeing the music note) when looking at the music on the memory card.  I noticed that every one of my files that displayed album art was a .m4a.  The first thing to do is get rid of the DRM by going thru the procedure described elsewhere here, or ante up another .30 cents to Apple.  Make sure your import settings in iTunes preferences are set to AAC - iTunes+, I also added a script file I found on the net to embed the art as your new AAC -.m4a file is playing, the ones from Apple have art embedded, but the ones you convert yourself will not, so as you add it and click ok (from the get info command) you will hear the song 'stammer' for a second and you know you have changed the file.  Locate your iTunes files on your hard drive (HD-users-music-iTunes-iTunes music) and drag and drop to your My Music folder on your card (delete the existing song first from the card and empty the trash), and every one of my files displays properly, the only downside I see is that file sizes are slightly larger, but hey they have 16GB cards now!

Here's an easy way to add missing album art.  Just go to Amazon.com.  Select "Music" in the drop down list of the Search Window.  Put the name of the album in the other Search window.  When the album appears, click on it to get the full size pic.  It should be 240 x 240.  Save the JPEG and rename it "albumart".  Now, all you have to do is place that JPEG in the artist's album folder in the "my_music" folder of your Touch. 

Amazon's music database is so large, I doubt there will be an album you can't find. 


Sube

wmp11 will resize it auomatically to fit the box the album art goes in if the pic is the wrong size



if you manually put a pic in the song thru itunes, it gets imbedded to the file. the automatic "search for album artwork" only puts it on itunes.

Heres how I got around the missing album art issue.

I tried syncing via rhapsody and only some of the art transfered over. I also noticed that some of the song information didnt transfer over when I added the song to rhapsody manually. So instead of adding 600 of my songs to rhapsody and RE-adding album art I tried syncing it with Windows Media Player.

And yippy it works! I don't have to re-add any of my album art or update song information. (I'm a neat freak so I already updated this information and added album art when I had my songs on itunes)

that's what I did, I used my micro sd/sd USB adapter, put my micro sd in there, plugged it into my PC, then I downloaded JPEG versions of each album I was missing, named them all "AlbumArt.jpg" and copied them into the individual album folders I have on my micro sd. I don't know if you really have to use the name AlbumArt, but I do know that GIF files DO NOT WORK, only use JPEG.

Cool, that's a nice and simple way of doing it w/o having to resort to Rhapsody, WMP 11, etc.