Darn this new version of iTunes. Thanks to the built in cover flow feature, i've lost many hours to updating my music library to contain correct album cover art. I never really cared before so i had a lot of work to do. I was surprised at just how poor the built in "get album artwork" feature is. Sometimes it would be way off. Eventually i got a good workflow down. I'd find the album on Amazon; click the larger version link; option-click copy image; switch to Preview and command-N for new image from clipboard; draw a box around only the cover to get rid of whitespace and command-K to crop; command-C to copy; jump to iTunes and select all tracks on album; command-I to get info; and finally paste the image in the artwork box. I wish iTunes had a better built in search mechanism where i could tweak the search to find the correct art to begin with.
Posted by Matthew at September 18, 2006 12:29 AM