Found a nifty little program for iTunes.

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Ok, I know how some of you feel about iTunes, but I really like it. AND it's one of the few legal ways to buy and download music. So there.

Anyway, I spent alot of time getting my music folder organized by artist/album, and getting the cover art for each one. iTunes will display the cover art for the currently playing song, but Apple, in their infinite wisdom, doesn't make this automatic, or go by the folder the file is acutally in. You have to manually drag and drop the artwork onto each file, or a selection of files. PITA, if you have a huge collection (and was too lazy to do it before).

Found a program called iCoverArt, from Maximized Software (www.maximized.com) that does two things: Automatically scans your music folders for existing folder art, and for folders without art, allows you to download art from various websites. Once that's done, it inserts the art into iTunes. Neat.

I'm halfway through doing my library, and while it's not perfect (missed about 5% of my library, for some reason.........) it's 10000000% better than doing it manually. And it's $5 USD. Not free, but well worth the time saved. I have a little over 120gb of music (all legal, so hush, I ripped my CD, tape, and vinyl collection over the last couple of years) so doing it by song would be tedious at best.........that's 15,000 songs, give or take.

Oh, the neat thing about iTunes album art, is it's actually inserted into the song file, so if you happen to have an iPod photo, the song file will display the artwork there, without any further steps, or if you have several computers networked and sharing the same music folder, all machines will show the artwork...........do it once, its done, unlike MusicMatch or the rest, that require you to do it on each machine.
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