I forgot how great album covers are... nowadays you hardly get to look at them anymore. With my new family edition (AppleTV) this is no longer true. It is such a good feeling when you see a really good cover design or to put an artist face to the song!
For this reason, I took a couple of weekend hours and organized my playlists and found 99% of my covers. They play beautifully on the TV while the songs play and the wine bottle finishes.
At first I thought I could save time and support devs by purchasing a $10 bucks shareware that claimed to find it all for you. If you are a weirdo like me, you probably have some weird music in your library and no, the software did not find it all, neither did iTunes.
You can try to use iTunes to find a cover:
1. I usually have iTunes Store open because by selecting a sing I can see if the album is available on the store and if it has an album cover associated to it. If thats true..
2. Right click a song > Get Album Artwork
iTunes will grab and save it in the correct place for you.
Otherwise this is a workflow I found to add covers manually:
1. Open iTunes and select any song of the artist, album or playlist from the right panel
2. View > Show Artwork.
3. Make sure the Artwork window is set to show the selection and not the "Now Playing" cover. You can do this by clicking on the small arrow next to the window title.
4. If the cover is not available already, the window should have a "drop" area that reads "Drag Album Artwork Here"
5. Open a browser window and search for the name of the artist or album name. Amazon seems to have almost everything. Make sure you find an image that is large enough, the amazon zoom view works well. Drag that image from the browser into the iTunes drop area.
Now if you find out how to change the artwork of movies added to itunes (not pruchased) so it does not display the first frame always, please let me know!
