My iPod Classic 160gb seems to be selecting random cover art for songs it plays. I know I sync'ed the songs onto the iPod (using iTunes) with the cover art on them, but when I play it on the iPod, the cover art is either different, or is missing. Are there any patched I can download, or anything I can do? Or is it just ''one of those iPod things''?
Re: Cover Art and iPod not agreeing with each other!
Hi there, the problem comes from the tags attached to your media files. You must tag your files with the appropriate cover art for them to appear correctly. There is an application available for free that can do this for you: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/download.html
Once you have installed it, run the program. In the program, click File/Change Directory Select the folder in which you've got your music files and it will open the folder up for analysis. Preferably, you should group your songs by album to make the process easier for you. You select the songs from the list( for multiple songs, hold Ctrl while selecting) and then click on Tag Sources/Amazon.com or any other present website and use the search engine to find the appropriate album for the songs. Note that you can not search for multiple albums at the same time. Tags can be done per album. Hope this helps, Regards
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<p>Music you download from the iTunes Music Store album art,
and an iPod Touch, this work of art as the music plays. Numbers that you have
your iTunes library from CDs or files on your computer does not contain
pictures, but you can find the right images using iTunes and synchronize the
work with the iPod Touch. <br />
<p><br />
<p>To download artwork from iTunes <br />
<p>1. Open iTunes on your computer. <br />
<p><br />
<p>2. Mark all the songs you want to download the album cover,
click the radio button and click "Get Album Artwork." iTunes will try
to adapt each with a selected song from the iTunes Music Store and download the
correct album art. <br />
<p><br />
<p>3. Connect your iPod Touch to your computer. If you set
iTunes so that it does not automatically synchronize your iPod Touch, iPod
Touch to highlight the "Devices" list and click "Sync". <br />
<p><br />
<p>Adding image files from your computer <br />
<p>1. Open iTunes on your computer. <br />
<p><br />
<p>2. Highlight a song you want to add album art. If you do not
see the viewer art in the lower left corner of the iTunes window, click the
arrow next to "Repeat" icon. The spectator art would have to say:
"Drag art here." <br />
<p><br />
<p>3. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the folder
containing the image you want to add to your music contains. Drag the image on
the viewer art and let it go. Repeat for each number you want to add an image. <br />
<p><br />
<p>4. Connect your iPod Touch to your computer. If you set
iTunes so that it does not automatically synchronize your iPod Touch, iPod
Touch to highlight the "Devices" list and click "Sync". <br />
<p>While the album artwork is an essential part of non-digital
albums, is also useful for digital versions of music. This is especially true
of songs from the iPod Touch from photos, also known as album art; add to the
visual appeal of the songs played on the iPod Touch. If you noticed that your
songs are missing images playing on the iPod Touch, you can solve this problem by
obtaining the art in iTunes. <br />
<p><br />
<p>1. Connect your iPod Touch to your computer using the USB
cable for iPod. <br />
<p><br />
<p>2. Click "Start" then "All Programs" and
"iTunes." Click the "Music" option under
"Library." <br />
<p><br />
<p>3. Click "Edit" then "Select All" on
iTunes. Right-click and choose "Get Album Artwork." Then click
"Get Album Artwork" when asked if you want to get the album cover. <br />
<p><br />
<p>4. Wait for iTunes to download artwork. This may take
several minutes depending on the number of albums that defect art. <br />
<p><br />
<p>5. Write the songs from iTunes to your iPod Touch. If your
iPod Touch is automatically set to sync with iTunes, iTunes automatically
copies the music. <br />
<p><br />
<p>6. Disconnect the iPod Touch after iTunes has copied the
songs. Press the "Music" on your iPod Touch and play a song to iTunes
to see the pictures added. <br />
I am going to assume that it is your performance that is slowed down.
Unfortunately, there are not many ways to improve the performance, but there are plenty of ways to bog it down.
A way that I found (because I owned a 80 GB) was to NOT display the cover art/album art and disable the album art preview that appears on the right side of the screen when its at a menu.
For the iPod, loading a video will always be slow, but it holds steadily after. I heard it on my iPod a couple of times where the music will slow down (by only a few beats, but its noticeable), no idea why.
Do not load pictures on the iPod either, there really isn't a point.
Hope this helps.
<p>Music files can be embedded with album art for display on
MP3 players. Since most files have an album cover, this without them would be
when a device likes the iPod Touch. Apple iTunes users can add or delete album
covers. There is no way to change the album art through the device itself. The
addition of cover, you have an easier time choosing the album from a list. <br />
<p><br />
<p>1. Open iTunes. <br />
<p><br />
<p>2. Go to your "Library". <br />
<p><br />
<p>3. Highlight the song or songs you want to add album art. <br />
<p><br />
<p>4. Right-click and choose a song "Get Info". <br />
<p><br />
<p>5. Select the "Artwork" tab. Here you can add or
remove the album art embedded into the file or files. Add an image, click
"Add" and navigate to the image of your choice to find. Click
"OK" when finished. <br />
<p><br />
<p>6. Synchronize your computer with the iPod Touch update
album art for the device. <br />
<p>MediaMonkey is a software program that helps your MP3 music
files on your computer and portable audio players. It automatically tags your songs;
you know the name of the album title, artist and musician. It also adds the
album cover. So when you play the song, album art display on your portable
music player or computer screen. All song information and album art comes from
Amazon, so if they are not art for this album, you cannot download to
MediaMonkey. <br />
<p><br />
<p>1. MediaMonkey Open the program on your computer. <br />
<p><br />
<p>2. Click on "My Computer" and "My
Documents" in the program. <br />
<p><br />
<p>3. Click on "Music" and "All" to select
all your songs. <br />
<p><br />
<p>4. Highlight the songs that the album art you. <br />
<p><br />
<p>5. Press "Ctrl" and "L" key while the
auto-tag feature of MediaMonkey. Wait for the program to automatically find the
album art from Amazon. <br />
<p><br />
<p>6. Click "Auto-Tag" and wait for MediaMonkey to
add album art. <br />
To do this you're going to have to re-copy all of the music you want album art for to your G1! Sorry! But here goes...
Firstly, the reason the album art isn't there is because it wasn't bought online, therefore the album art may not be encoded onto the songs. However it's not that hard to encode art yourself on Windows Media Player.
You have to look for the album art online, and save it on your computer. Then, find the songs you want on Windows Media Player (if they are from the same album then ctrl+click them all) then right click. On the right-click menu there should be an option called Advanced Tag Editor. Click that, then the Pictures Tab, and click Add. Then find your album art and select Cover (Front) from the Picture Type drop down menu. Hopefully that will encode your songs with the album art, then you can sync them with WMP or copy and paste them as normal.
Connect mp3 player to computer
Open Windows Media Player
Go to Sync tab
A list of the songs on your mp3 player should show up
Right click the songs, and go to advanced tag editor - change the album art for each song
One more thing to keep in mind for the Sansa e200 series:
For correct Album Work functionality, the album art and associated music file may
need to be located in the same folder. See preloaded content as an example.
I not entirely 100% sure, but the album art is only supported with WMA, as the album art image is embedded inside of the wma files themselves and not stored separately on the mp3 player.
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