iPod: How to Add Album Art to MP3 Songs using iTunes
In this post we shall discuss how we can add any picture as an album art for the songs that you have in your iPod or iTunes library. The main purpose of this post is that we own lot of songs to which we would want to add our favourite picture as album art instead of the original album art that came with the song. You would also be having songs that don’t have album art so you can now add album art to these using iTunes.
How to enable album arts in iPod?
Before you proceed to add album art to the songs make sure have enabled album art feature in your iPod.
1. Open iTunes and go to the music tab under iPod and enable the album art. (refer to the screenshot below; click to enlarge)
How to add album art to songs using iTunes?
1. Get the latest version of iTunes; you can get the latest version from here.
2. Open iTunes and select the song(s) to which you would like to add album art. Now right click the song(s) and select the “Get info” context menu. (Refer to the screenshot below)
3. Now in the window that opens up select the “Add” button and select the pictures that you would like to add as album art. (refer to the screenshots below. Click to enlarge.)
4. Click the “OK” button and you should see the album art in your iTunes library or iPod.
Image Courtesy: ThoughtsMedia Forum
Now go an start adding your favourite pictures as album art.
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Few softwares supporting MusicBrainz have an automatic image tagger inbuilt in them. WMP does it too but it keeps an image inside the folders instead of a tag. And to get auto album art in iTunes you need to cough up an account which’s impossible in India. I’d rather use some good ID3 tagger which auto-downloads stuff for me than tag my entire, say, 40 GB or so, of music.
I had tried iTunes for album art earlier, but there is a software called MediaMonkey, which has a more elegant way of finding images and tagging your songs. It automatically searches for the album art from amazon (and some other sites) based on the song name and the artist name.
I was about to suggest the same software that vasuki suggested. Mediamonkey works like a charm. It uses the amazon web service to get the artwork and other metadata related to the song.
Guys,
Thanks…
I am aware of these tools but few of my readers wanted to use iTunes for so I published this post.
Many people use only iTunes with their iPods that’s one more reason for publishing this post.
Even iTunes can pick album art automatically.
May be I will publish another post with media monkey.
Vasuki-
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Harsh-
Seeing you here after a long time…
I use mp3Tag to add Image .
I use mp3Tag to add Image .