[grubavs]

Not sure if this is inappropriate for the AVS Forum, but I'll try it anyway.


iTunes 8.02/Quicksilver Dual 1GHz/OSX 10.5.6/importing CDs using the WAV encoder/use REMOTE on my iPhone 3G


Many of my albums (boatloads of classical, Baroque, Medieval, Renaissance) do not automatically get album artwork. I have in the past been able to just drag & drop artwork into the appropriate spot in iTunes (either in the artwork window in the lower left column and/or when command-i-ing the entire album), but now there is greyed-out lettering inside the Album Artwork window: "Album Artwork Not Modifiable", and it really means it! I can't put any type of picture in there or in the command-i window for either a single song, set of songs, or entire album... any ideas? Thanks.

 

[chefklc]

I don't do WAV, personally, but I didn't think you could do art for WAV...try a few rips with ALAC or AIFF and verify you can add art as usual, if so, there's your problem.

 

[grubavs]



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Originally Posted by chefklc /forum/post/15398250


I don't do WAV, personally, but I didn't think you could do art for WAV...try a few rips with ALAC or AIFF and verify you can add art as usual, if so, there's your problem.

Thanks very much! That's what it is. Darn it! I hate being ignorant... I googled everything but WAV before I wrote this thread. It just didn't occur to me that the sound encoder would be the problem

Now to re-rip all those CDs!!

 

[chefklc]

Re-ripping is one possibility, but you could also just convert the WAV to ALAC or AIFF with iTunes or with Max instead. Lossless is lossless, you can go back and forth at will.

 

[oztech]

And after you re-rip there is a widget that gets album art very easy Amazon ART.

 

[grubavs]



Quote:
Originally Posted by chefklc /forum/post/15398385


Re-ripping is one possibility, but you could also just convert the WAV to ALAC or AIFF with iTunes or with Max instead. Lossless is lossless, you can go back and forth at will.

Ignorance is definitely NOT bliss

I just tried your suggestion (I seem to only have AIFF conversion ability in my iTunes Advanced window) and it works great! Thanks (again

).

 

[chefklc]



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I seem to only have AIFF conversion ability in my iTunes Advanced window

What shows up there is whatever you have your iTunes import preference set to--so if you want a "Create Apple lossless version" command in that Advanced menu, just change import preference to ALAC and you're good to go.


At the moment I'm assembling a 192 AAC VBR smart playlist for iPod syncing, so I'm using "Create AAC version" there...

 

[grubavs]



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Originally Posted by oztech /forum/post/15398651


And after you re-rip there is a widget that gets album art very easy Amazon ART.

Very cool! Thanks.

 

[grubavs]

If I may ask just one more question??? So I entered several (20 or so) album covers (after converting to AIFF), and then ran the auto album cover search in iTunes... I believe it dumped almost all album covers that it couldn't find but I had added ??? Is that a possibility (or another known thing about iTunes of which I'm ignorant

)?

 

[oztech]

I never had it take away album covers .

 

[kenliles]

I think when getting artwork via iTunes, the artwork is stored outside the file into a coded directory in iTunes; then iTunes uses that artwork as primary. Open your media file (get info) and verify an artwork picture is stored as part of the AIFF (or Apple lossless) file itself.


I think it doesn't replace the imbedded pic, but chooses to display the encoded-downloaded pic when found...


I would recommend storing your artwork in the media file(meta-data), so it moves with the file - then delete the stuff that sits in iTunes in the encoded reference file...


ken

 

[grubavs]



Quote:
Originally Posted by kenliles /forum/post/15418935


I think when getting artwork via iTunes, the artwork is stored outside the file into a coded directory in iTunes; then iTunes uses that artwork as primary. Open your media file (get info) and verify an artwork picture is stored as part of the AIFF (or Apple lossless) file itself.


I think it doesn't replace the imbedded pic, but chooses to display the encoded-downloaded pic when found...


I would recommend storing your artwork in the media file(meta-data), so it moves with the file - then delete the stuff that sits in iTunes in the encoded reference file...


ken

Thanks, Ken. I'll check that out. It sounds reasonable considering the situation. Some of the older rips had artwork I scanned from actual covers, and iTunes auto "replaced" it with a different cover artwork (say, the album was re-released with new artwork) when I converted from WAV to AIFF.

 

[kenliles]

be aware, you can also store multiple artwork pics in the file using the iTunes-Get Info-Artwork tab...


ken