iTunes 4 Album Art

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So I was just playing around with album art in iTunes 4. I guess it's kind of useless, but neat. Problem is I can't figure out how to remove art from a song. Anyone able to do this? I tried all the usual stuff. On a related note, anyone know where iTunes stores the art? It's not in the iTunes folder or the iTunes prefs.
 
where is the art work stored after i add it to a song? I looked around, and I found nothing, deleted the original image but it copies the image somewhere.
 
Unless I'm mistaken, album art is stored as part of the ID3 tag data.

ID3 Tag Info

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Originally posted by Urbansory
where is the art work stored after i add it to a song? I looked around, and I found nothing, deleted the original image but it copies the image somewhere.
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Well thats cool, now i need to redo my entire library, I guess I have something to do when i'm not doing anything over the next couple of months. RIP all my CDs to aac, there has to be an easier way.
 
I'm just disappointed that iTunes doesn't get the album art automatically, of CDs that I've already ripped. This is why I love the app "Playalong."

*sigh* oh well.... at least I got AAC support for mine olde 5gb iPod. :)
 
it doesn't? I have yet to try and rerip my CDs yet, thats no good, no point with all the CDs and mp3s I have, waste of time. I just like the artwork because some are old classics that bring back a lot of memories.
 
Yeah it does suck that iTunes doesn't look up the artwork. I've got 300+ CDs to re-rip, last thing I want to do is scan 300+ CD covers. Another disappointment is that when you buy a song, the artwork is included, but you can't print it out! If I buy an album, I'm going to want to burn it to CD and would like to have a liner for the jewel case.
 
Yeah.... until I can get high quality print-outs of liner notes and album covers along with my high quality audio, I'm STILL buying real CD Albums...
 
I haven't done it yet, but it looks like you can simply convert the MP3's that you have to AAC, if you want. I think I'll keep the MP3's and convert to a different folder so that I'll have both.
 
Originally posted by Bigjet
I haven't done it yet, but it looks like you can simply convert the MP3's that you have to AAC, if you want. I think I'll keep the MP3's and convert to a different folder so that I'll have both.
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I guess that will work as long as you don't mind crappy sounding music. MP3 is a "lossy" compression scheme as is AAC.

I haven't actually tried converting them yet, but given all the signal loss you would encounter through compressing the files twice I think I'll just re-rip my collection. I'm not a complete audiophile but my music has to sound half-way decent.
 
You wouldn't actually lose all that much more than is already lost. The compression codecs drop the signals that are above or below the threshold of human hearing...once it's done, doing it again isn't going to rip out much more (if anything), unless you're converting to a lower bit rate. Trying to convert to a higher bit rate wouldn't rip out anything, but it also wouldn't really be a higher bit rate either. You probably wouldn't notice any difference between the mp3 and the same mp3 converted to aac.
 
The images i use for my artwork are not the highest res, but good enough, i get them from www.ubl.com

Seek and you shall find, and you can just drag it from the browser into iTunes.
 
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