Unusual use for Automator, but.....

[Mitcherooney]

I need to (I think), use it to solve the following problem. Having messed up my Album info (Don't ask...) my Artwork is also confused... All tunes by Joe Bloggs for instance, have the same image.
My idea is to make all the Album names the same as the song title so that a different image (which I have laboriously entered) would appear, instead of the same image for each song by the same artist.
I should point out that pretty much all of these tunes are ones that I have brought in from old casettes, LPs and reel to reel tapes. None purchased from Itunes, so the obvious solution to get the images from the store doesn't arise.
Can anyone help me with a method of reading the song title and making the album title the same? I think it should work......
Cheers Mitcherooney

 

[the8thark]

Hi,

All you have to do is this:

1. Highlight all the tracks you want to put the same album image for. One whole album's worth of tracks.

2. Right click the selection and select get info. Then choose yes to editing multiple songs worth of info at once.

3. On this screen is a largish white box to the right. Now you just make sure it's check box is ticked. And you have 2 options now of what to do.

3a. You find the file you want to be the artwork for the album in the finder and drag it into the white box. And then click ok, all done.

3b. Double click on the white box and look for the file you want to be the album art in the usual "find a file" way. Then select it and ok it to be used as your album art. Then ok again.

And that's it. You have to do it for each album seperately. But it's better then track by track. I prefer having the single artwork there where applicable though. But each to his/her own.

[edit] I've read something that I think you'd be interested in.

In itunes 6 the artwork was attached to each track, so it moved with the mp3 wherever it went. But in itunes 7 all the artowrk is stored by itunes itself in a folder and not in the individual mp3. This has 2 main implications.

1. When you move a track the artwork no longer moves with it cause it's not attached to it. This between different macs though.

2. The album artwork screen saver through itunes still looks for the artwork from the mp3s and not the new itunes artwork holding area. So only pre itunes 7 artworked song pictures will appear in it. I'm not sure if apple has fixed this issue or not. I dunno.

 

[Mitcherooney]

Thanks for that, but I want, for the most part, different pictures on each track from the same artist - images which are there - I put them in as I saved them into iTunes. Because I foolishly made ALL the album names the same, (I had a bad day, that day!) if I select the six tracks by Joe Bloggs, one of the pics appears on each track as opposed to the half dozen that are there.
Back to my idea...
If I could rename each album to be the same as the track name, then perhaps the original image would return. I know that if I change an album name to something different, then the image that I've got reappears. I just don't want to have to do it manually for each of the 1800 tracks.
It's all a bit wordy, but I hope that I've explained that a bit more clearly.
Cheers M