Anyway, the older and faster method is still around you just have to know the "trick". The fact that you can still get to the feature by pressing the Option key indicates that the changes were by design. To retrieve album artwork from the iTunes Store for your entire. Select one or more songs in your music library, choose Song > Info, click Artwork, then do one of the following: Click Add Artwork, select an image file, then click Open. 3 Navigate to iTunes Store, and input the name of your album on the search bar to find the correct album. In the Music app on your Mac, click Songs in the sidebar on the left. To make changes to your iPhone, navigate to the iPhone icon in the top left. After you’ve chosen the artwork from your PC, it will be displayed in the song info menu. In the newly opened window, go to the Artwork tab, and click Add Artwork. To retrieve album artwork from the iTunes Store for your entire library, choose File > Library > Get Album Artwork. Right-click on the album cover and navigate to Album Info. Select one or more items in your iTunes library, choose Edit > Item Info, click Artwork, then do one of the following: Click Add Artwork, select an image file, then click Open. If you cannot find the Menu Bar, please click the triangle button at the very top-left corner, and choose 'Show Menu Bar'. Run iTunes and find a song with no cover. Click on the image so that it opens in its own page. Switch your view of iTunes to the second option so.
It could be part of the big package of iTunes GUI changes that have troubled many users. 2 Click Library from the Menu Bar, and find Get Album Artworks under Library. In the search field for Google, type the name of the album and artist. This will allow iTunes to search its databases for the artwork needed. Maybe Apple meant to make this change, or perhaps it was an oversight. You can see both versions below: the current "improved" design and the "hidden" old version that you can restore by pressing the Option key. Just hold the Option key down before you select "Get Info" to bring back the old GUI that lets you drag and drop your album art right into iTunes. It takes more steps to add the album art, and who knows why Apple made the change.ĭon't despair! The old tried and true method is still there, but hidden. Doing the same sequence now gets you a newly designed dialog box that wants you to load the graphic from a location - no more drag and drop. That all changed in iTunes 12, for reasons that escape me.
The image is instantly applied to the tracks in iTunes.
I did resize the jpeg to 300x300 pixels before doing that. You could Google the album art, then simply drag the album cover from the web page to the designated spot after selecting all the album tracks and doing a "Get Info" (Command-I) from the File menu of iTunes. I was able to accomplish this by adding the album art in iTunes first (which simply allows you to select the audio track (s) and drag a jpeg to the album art section to apply it. Until version 12 arrived, it was a pretty simple process. make sure under privileges it says read and write…you may need to unlock to do this…just hit little arrow and choose read and write on all names.then click gear wheel at bottom and click apply to enclosed items… close box… Perhaps it is only necessary to do this in the iTunes folder only…not sure…I did it to both folders and now I am able to add my own artwork and edit track information…no more greyed out areas.I am very dedicated to getting the proper album art on the hundreds of CDs I've put into iTunes. go to iTunes folder…right click…choose get info…in this box, down at the bottom under sharing & permissions.
ADDING ALBUM ARTWORK ITUNES MAC
This is why many Mac users use AIFF rather than WAV. You can add artwork within iTunes but the association between the files and the artwork is in the iTunes database, not the file itself. Macbook pro….itunes 12.2 Can't manually add album artwork? After hours of frustration, here is what finally fixed this for me…BTW….this also fixed the greyed out problem that left you unable to edit any details in the album info ( you do this by right clicking on a track and choosing get info} Go to finder…go to home…go to music folder…right click…choose get info….in this box, down at the bottom under sharing & permissions, make sure under privileges it says read and write…you may need to unlock to do this…just hit little arrow and choose read and write on all names…then click gear wheel at bottom and click apply to enclosed items… close box… next, repeat these steps with the iTunes folder that is located inside the music folder…. The problem is that WAV files, unlike AIFF, do not allow embedded artwork.