Where Does I Tunes store it's album artwork?

SMHarman · 16-05-2004, 16:45

As in the thread title really.

Copied it from my desktop to server and seem to have misplaced the art. I want it back, it took ages to get there - all 533 albums of it.

Lew · 16-05-2004, 18:53

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[Edit: I just copied an MP3 from my PowerBook to my iBook and it kept the album artwork]

SMHarman · 17-05-2004, 00:33

Found a thread on ipodlounge that said the same. The aac format includes the image. So if your ipod is full, you can delete the images from itunes and create space.

Found it was due to itunes being a bit funny about the new server based folder location, closing down and restarting itunes fixed it though - phew.

andygrif · 17-05-2004, 10:19

It makes sense to store them in the files really, and it only takes up a few k (depending on where you get your images - personally I use Amazon as they're reasonable quality vs size) and iTunes only displays them as tiny thumnails on sreen anyway.

SMHarman · 17-05-2004, 13:13

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Originally Posted by andygrif

<snip>personally I use Amazon <snip>.

Me too, funny how sometimes you need to look on .com, .de or .co.uk to find artwork though.

Lew · 17-05-2004, 15:19

Walmart.com is another place to get good album artwork. For exampleÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¢ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡Ãƒ â€šÃ‚Â¬ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¦

andygrif · 17-05-2004, 15:43

That is good quality...thanks for that...not too much larger in file size too.

Lew · 17-05-2004, 15:54

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Originally Posted by SMHarman

Found a thread on ipodlounge that said the same. The aac format includes the image. So if your ipod is full, you can delete the images from itunes and create space.

Found it was due to itunes being a bit funny about the new server based folder location, closing down and restarting itunes fixed it though - phew.

Are you using a network drive as your iTunes music library location or running a copy of iTunes on the server, btw? The latter is the best option (iTunes' streaming is very good).

SMHarman · 17-05-2004, 20:44

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Originally Posted by Mimizuku no Lew

Are you using a network drive as your iTunes music library location or running a copy of iTunes on the server, btw? The latter is the best option (iTunes' streaming is very good).

If I had to guess I would have seen you putting a TRON CD cover up!

I would run I tunes on the server, but it's an antique Win98 PC and no such iTunes exists. Principally it's 120Gb of warm backup storage. And in this weather with a router 2 PCs and the SACM it certainly is warm.

I have seen / tried the sharing option from my desktop to laptop and thought it very good, it is just a shame that itunes needs to be on for the sharing to work. This would also work great as I could update my ipod from anywhere and not need to keep adding folder to library whenever I add disks to itunes.

Perhaps I do need that shuttle case and XP pro replacement for this server box.

Lew · 17-05-2004, 21:39

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Originally Posted by SMHarman

If I had to guess I would have seen you putting a TRON CD cover up!

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I have seen / tried the sharing option from my desktop to laptop and thought it very good, it is just a shame that itunes needs to be on for the sharing to work. This would also work great as I could update my ipod from anywhere and not need to keep adding folder to library whenever I add disks to itunes.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html

SMHarman · 17-05-2004, 21:56

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Originally Posted by Mimizuku no Lew

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html

Whilst Apple might listen more to their customers than M$, I don't think they will be recoding iTunes for an OS based on near decade old code will be happening anytime soon.

Lew · 17-05-2004, 22:05

I was actually referring to your comment about iTunes needing to be running in order to share the music library. I'm sure if people wanted it they could change it so that there's a service (on Windows machines) or a daemon (on OS X machines) that can run to share the library.

BTW, I believe the main reason that iTunes doesn't run on Win 9x is that it requires Unicode support, which is only available on the NT-based versions of Windows.

andygrif · 18-05-2004, 09:47

You don't actually have to have iTunes running to be able to access the music over a network. Just create a share of the directory where the music is stored, and point your second copy of iTunes at it...works great for me.

SMHarman · 18-05-2004, 10:13

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Originally Posted by andygrif

You don't actually have to have iTunes running to be able to access the music over a network. Just create a share of the directory where the music is stored, and point your second copy of iTunes at it...works great for me.

But whenever you add tunes to the database, you have to tell the second instance of iTunes to add the folder again to find all the new song in it. This is what I'm doing at the moment. Unless there is a way to automate this.

Also it always seems a few songs different. Currently my second instance is showing one additional song - weird.

andygrif · 18-05-2004, 10:44

I forget how I did it now....I have a feeling that it was as simple as opening an Explorer window which has all the audio tracks in it, select all then drag into the iTunes window. I know this works on a one by one basis, presume it works on multiples too. I can't check right now as I'm at work, but if I remember I'll give it a go when I get home.