I was never really interested in Album art while ripping my CDs to MP3s but viewing the album cover on my ipod video has inspired me to tag each song with the correct album art. Here are some examples of with and without Album art on the ipod.

So lets get on to the details. I decided first to do a google search for album art downloader and came across Album Cover Art Downloader (local) Album Cover Art Downloader Oh did this make my life easy. First thing I did was downloaded and installed the program once it is opened I clicked the open button (first on toolbar, looks like a folder) and browsed to a folder with music in it. I will be demonstrating on a grits album that I have had for years. The first thing that should be done is all the songs should be tagged correctly, meaning that they are labled correcty(in properties). You should get a screen that looks like this.(if you opened a folder with a lot of mp3s it should group each CD together if they are tagged properly)

Next you can double click on the CD you would like to look up first (it should be highlighted blue and have a drop down menu of all the songs), click on a song and it should fill in the artist and the album name. Then just click download covers and hope that the right album cover comes up. And my album art came up correctly.

Now you can either select each song by holding down shift and clicking the last song or click on the main album cover, what you see when nothing is expanded and then click set as cover. It should go in and give each song the correct album cover. Note: if there is more than one ablum that appears after you download album covers, make sure the correct on is clicked before clicking the set as cover button.

Going through all of my cds there was some album art that this program did not find. This will be discussed in a later post. Now to test with Itunes and make sure the album art was loaded correctly.

There will be more tutorials to come!