Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

iTunes Album Art Feature

So I decided to finally cave in and sign up for an iTunes account, if only to enable the album art search feature. The first thing I noticed about the iTunes album art was that the art was all relatively good quality. All the images I would have found using an amazon search program, or similar sorts of applications were about half the size and quality of art from the iTunes search feature. So, I decided to erase all my album art for my collection and start fresh with the iTunes cover art search. Originally, I wrote another VB app that deletes the artwork for an entire playlist (just a quick modification to my lyrics search app). But there is a faster way:

1. Select all the songs for which you’d like to delete the album art.

2. Press Ctrl+I (or right click and show info)

3. Select the checkbox next to the blank artwork and press ok. The artwork for these tracks will be deleted.

If you already have iTunes art for most of your songs and would like to just delete the non-iTunes artwork, try this application. I modified it to just delete non-iTunes artwork.