iTunes Question

I searched the boards and couldn't find a solution to the problem I'm having.

So sometimes iTunes can't find the album art for a particular album, or the art they put with that album is completely wrong. I figured out how to change the album art myself for each individual song - right click, get info, artwork tab, drag and drop. But when I select an entire album or all of the songs on that album and right click, get info - there is no artwork tab or summary tab with the artwork displayed. So my question is, how the heck do I manually edit the artwork for an entire album instead of going song by song? And I don't want to have to download some third party software - iTunes really should be able to do this by itself. If this is a silly question, I apologize!

Select all of the songs in an album, right click and hit Get Info. There should be a little box on the right side that says Artwork. Just copy and paste or drag the artwork into that box, hit OK, and you should be set.

Kash said:

Select all of the songs in an album, right click and hit Get Info. There should be a little box on the right side that says Artwork. Just copy and paste or drag the artwork into that box, hit OK, and you should be set.

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Hey, there it is! I was looking for a tab.

Thank you!

You need to be a little careful with the key strokes used when selecting items tho,
if your wanting to add the same image to a whole album you need to hold the command key as you highlight each track, right click -> get info, then drag the image to the artwork spot on the main info window.

i found if just held shift and selected them, then added the image, it only had the artwork for the first track, not the whole album.

matt1985 said:

You need to be a little careful with the key strokes used when selecting items tho,
if your wanting to add the same image to a whole album you need to hold the command key as you highlight each track, right click -> get info, then drag the image to the artwork spot on the main info window.

i found if just held shift and selected them, then added the image, it only had the artwork for the first track, not the whole album.

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That's quite odd, I thought the selection method ie. using shift or command key does the same thing. Shift just allows you to select a range, while command allows you to select items individually. I'll have to try this and see.

I also use the method above with copy and paste or drag and drop. Works great.

i thought it was a little odd too, but when i read the itunes help again and did it again with command it worked on my ipod/iphone properly.
was a pain as i had to go and find all the coverart again!

Never had issues with using shift to select a range. Can't seem to recreate that problem. How odd . . .

just realised perhaps i didnt describe the problem i had properly.
when using itunes, the whole album appeared to have coverart attached properly, regardless of method used to add the image, but i noticed when using my ipod/iphone then only the first track had the cover art.

anyways if its working for others using shift then doesnt really matter i guess.