Lost Album Artwork after Crash

cleetus · cleetus #1 (**permalink**)

05-23-2007, 08:20 PM

I have been storing my iTunes music, over 100GB, on an external firewire 800 drive. After a while my drive had issues and I just had to reconfigure my entire drive, meaning copy the music and reformat the external. In the process of moving the music around I seemed to have lost my album artwork. Where is that kept and how do I recover, if possible?
Thanks!

baggss · baggss #2 (**permalink**)

05-23-2007, 10:42 PM

If it was artwork that iTunes found and added on it's own, then it should be kept as a separate graphic file with the music. I'm not sure how to make it all come back other than to tell iTunes to go back out and find artwork for it all again.

To keep this from happening again, use an app like MPFreaker to find artwork. It embeds the artwork in the file itself, iTunes does not.

cleetus · cleetus #3 (**permalink**)

05-24-2007, 10:22 AM

Thanks for the info on Freaker. Most of it I had to dig up from the 'net, not iTunes.
So is it lost?

baggss · baggss #4 (**permalink**)

05-24-2007, 11:37 AM

Look in the file where the music is on the hard drive. It may be in there, otherwise it may be lost.

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cleetus #1 (permalink)
Member Since: May 23, 2007 Location: Chi-Town Posts: 2 Mac Specs: Power Mac G4 Tower, Powerbook 12" G4	05-23-2007, 08:20 PM I have been storing my iTunes music, over 100GB, on an external firewire 800 drive. After a while my drive had issues and I just had to reconfigure my entire drive, meaning copy the music and reformat the external. In the process of moving the music around I seemed to have lost my album artwork. Where is that kept and how do I recover, if possible? Thanks!
	QUOTE Thanks

baggss #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 10, 2004 Location: Margaritaville Posts: 10,306 Mac Specs: 27" 3.4 Ghz i7 iMac-13" C2D Macbook-OSX 18.8.2-64Gb iPad 2-32 Gb iPhone 5-ATV 2-14Tb of Storage	05-23-2007, 10:42 PM If it was artwork that iTunes found and added on it's own, then it should be kept as a separate graphic file with the music. I'm not sure how to make it all come back other than to tell iTunes to go back out and find artwork for it all again. To keep this from happening again, use an app like MPFreaker to find artwork. It embeds the artwork in the file itself, iTunes does not.
	QUOTE Thanks

baggss #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 10, 2004 Location: Margaritaville Posts: 10,306 Mac Specs: 27" 3.4 Ghz i7 iMac-13" C2D Macbook-OSX 18.8.2-64Gb iPad 2-32 Gb iPhone 5-ATV 2-14Tb of Storage	05-24-2007, 11:37 AM Look in the file where the music is on the hard drive. It may be in there, otherwise it may be lost.
	QUOTE Thanks

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