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What is the best free way to add/update album artwork in iTunes on OS X?

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GimmeSomeTune can help with missing artwork and it is free.

This was mentioned in a similar question:

http://superuser.com/questions/348/what-is-the-best-software-to-manage-dupes-and-clean-up-data-in-itunes/722#722

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I used this one and it's really good and not just for the artworks. It's a great software. – Philippe Mongeau Sep 12 '09 at 20:07
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How about right-clicking and selecting "Get Album Artwork"?

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This has mostly worked for me, or if not, it's usually quick to manually get the picture off the web and assign it to the songs. – Jonik Sep 12 '09 at 20:49
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iTunes supports embedded art in the music files, and separately stored artwork maintained by iTunes itself.

The get artwork stored in the music files themselves, you can use various tools including dedicated music taggers (such as EasyTag) or iTunes add-ons (such as GimmeSomeTune).

But not all iTunes does not support artwork in all music file formats. If you, like me, use XiphQt to play Ogg files in iTunes, any embedded artwork will be ignored. You are then left with iTunes' own built-in artwork support.

When you use the "Get Album Artwork" context-menu option, iTunes downloads artwork from the iTunes Store, based on the album title and the artist name of the first track of the album. Unfortunately, although the iTunes Store has a large selection, it hardly has every album every produced. For example, you won't find any Beatles albums in the Store, let alone their cover art. As a result, you'll find that "Get Album Artwork" won't always work, or give you incorrect covers.

Luckily, iTunes can be tricked into accepting artwork from other sources with a little script called coverArt. It acts as a proxy between iTunes and the iTunes Store, intercepting searches for covers and allowing you as a user to either search Amazon for cover art or provide links to covers elsewhere on the web or on your hard drive.

Getting it set up is a bit archaic perhaps, but worth the effort.

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Wonder if you have considered it already. But since it has not yet been mentioned, I wish to point out what I am doing most of the time - just scan the CD cover and use the image as album artwork. Of course it doesn't work if we don't have the CD cover, but it's usually faster and less frustrating than trying to find the Artwork over the net.

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Try Artwork Gofer

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http://easytag.sourceforge.net/

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