I am using iTunes more often now. I like the album art view, it gives me the feeling of flicking through my old mans record collection. The only thing that annoys me is how the automatic album art retrieval works. It uses the id3 tags, particularly the album to make a match based on the albums in iTunes extensive library. I have found this to be about 60% effective. I was able to get about 90% of album art automatically input into itunes using the following procedure and software. I will describe them first. iEatBrainz (Acoustic Music Tagger) Uses MusicBrainz (musicbrainz.org) to fix your mp3 and aac tags in iTunes after they’ve been ripped using acoustic matchings. Album art thingy runs in the background, downloading artwork and lyrics for your iTunes collection and saving them into iTunes automatically.
- Download and install ieatbrainz.
- Download and install album art thingy.
- Run ieatbrainz against the songs lacking in id3 tags.
- Start album art thingy, then start itunes.
- 1st select all of your songs and have itunes try automatically.
- For those stragglers, play them and album art thingy should do it.
- Between the two sources if nothing is still found, chances are the id3 tag is wrong. You can edit them via iTunes.