![]() ![]() One of the advantages to using Google Images is that you can see the size of the image in both pixels and kilobytes - and you have the option of choosing the best image in both quality and size. If nothing is available in Google Images, then the main Google search engine is only a click away. I have manually added art to nearly every track by using theįind Album Artwork with Google, which initiates a search of the Google Images search engine using the artist and album name. They all rely on the artwork available from Amazon's vast catalog, but if Amazon's images aren't good, then you are stuck. I've been collecting album art for a few years now, and I have found that Clutter, FetchArt and Sofa (and any other automated art retriever) don't give me the level of control that I prefer. Also, avoid hi-res images, which will bloat your song files. If you want album art because you want to display it in the now playing box in iTunes, or on a color iPod, you should look for art that is no bigger than 300 x 300 pixels. The trick is to avoid using large image files. It is possible, in the future, that there will be an option to have a separate data file for an album, thus eliminating the need to save identical tags across multiple files, I don't know if it will ever be implemented. Each song or track is it's own data file. While it may seem inefficient, it isn't - music files are not album based. The latest format - ID3 v.2.x can save up to a whopping 256 megabytes of data per song JUST for the album art tag (source: Music files have the ability to store data about themselves in "ID3" tags. (Please don't suggest an external hard drive - I'm already saving up, but it'll be a while)įreelancer is 100% correct. So, what is the most space-efficient way of adding art to iTunes? Are my assumptions correct? Any insights would be much appreciated. If this were to work, though, that would mean just the one image saved for all tracks in an album.Īlso, how big are the files that come from the iTunes music store? jpg image in them which must hark back to my Sofa days, but this image is nowhere to be found in the Get Info panel. Not only this, but browsing through the iTunes Music Library, quite a few of the Album folders have a. ![]() My album was 71.1 MB, after importing album art it was 74.6 MB, which is quite a lot in my opinion. Also, the images are very high resolution which seems unnecessary. ![]() However, it seems I have to save a copy of the image for each song, not just for the album - this seems very inefficient in terms of memory. Today I tried 'Fetch Art for iTunes' which worked fine. This got rid of all my album art, but I didn't get as much space back as I expected. Soon I discovered that Album art was taking up quite a bit of space, and so someone suggested to select every song in my library, get info, and then uncheck the album art box. In the past I have used Sofa and Clutter, both were a bit woolly. I want to display Album art for my ripped CDs. I'm currently a bit pushed for space both on my hard drive and on my iPod (Photo). ![]()
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