Album Art and CD Cover Design

Click on an album title to begin searching. The proposed artwork column will begin filling up with cover options. The pixel dimensions are shown for all image thumbnails, making it easy to decide if there is a better option than what you currently have. Drag and drop a cover from the "Proposed Artwork" column onto the album (or song) name. The art is embedded into the ID3 tags and iTunes automatically reflects the changes. As each song gets updated, its pink highlighting disappears. You can also remove the old cover art after upgrading. Just click to highlight the old cover from the "Current Artwork" column and choose "Delete Selected Artwork" from the "File" menu. Covers must be removed from songs individually.

I found Art Collector perfect for determining which of the 7000 or so tracks in my iTunes library did not have the cover art embedded. Clicking the "Hide Covered Tracks" button displayed only the albums I needed to repair. My iTunes had a cover file in most cases, but wasn't embedding it. I just dragged the cover from the "Current Artwork" column onto the album's name and it started embedding.

I'm not sure that development is continuing on this program, but it worked for me using Tiger OS. Art Collector comes with Menuet, a system preference that puts a tiny cover in the Mac menu bar. It has playback controls also. Both are charityware, so check it out.

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