How can I automatically get album covers for music on my ipod?
I use iTunes Art Importer a free program that searches the Amazon database for album covers. I’ve found it to successfully find the artwok I need about 99.9% of the time. You simply open iTunes and iTunes Art Importer. Select the songs you want to find artwork for in iTunes (easiest to do album at a time), hit the search button and you get a list of possible matches. Select the one you want and hit the import button and voilla the artwork is added to the selected songs.
FWIW, I’ve been in the midst of a similar undertaking, but on a Mac. While there are several applications that will assist in this, I’ve found that they’re hit-or-miss with album art, especially with compilations (even when flagged as such). So I’ve actually wound up doing this manually, using a combination of images.google.com and a site that gathers covers from several different countries’ Amazons. This gives me the option of choosing which image I want to use. Handy tip if you do this: if you have the album selected in the iTunes library browser, you can drag the image directly from the web browser into the “selected track” cover-art pane and it will apply it to all the tracks (works on the Mac, anyhow). As to size–I think most of the images I’ve been dredging up have been 30 KB or less. Most of my MP3s are 3 MB and up. So the cover art adds 1% or less to the file size.
