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Album Artwork Assistant 3.0

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Finds album art and adds it to your iTunes library. Free

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Marc Liyanage

Album Artwork Assistant finds album cover artwork on the Internet and adds it to music track files in iTunes.

What's New

Version 3.0:

You can now select tracks in playlists, instead of just in the main Music group in iTunes. I think there was a reason why I disabled this, but it seems to work now. Let me know if there are any issues.
Album Artwork Assistant used to crash when you dragged an image from the local hard disk into the built-in web browser and selected it. I never thought about using it this way and this version fixes the crash. This is a neat trick to use local image files as artwork. Thanks to everyone who took the time to write a description of what they were doing in the crash report.

Version 3.0:

You can now select tracks in playlists, instead of just in the main Music group in iTunes. I think there was a reason why I disabled this, but it seems to work now. Let me know if there are any issues.
Album Artwork Assistant used to crash when you dragged an image from the local hard disk into the built-in web browser and selected it. I never thought about using it more...

Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later.

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Album Artwork Assi... User Discussion (Write a Review)

ver. 3.x:

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Mrknister reviewed on 04 Jan 2012

Great program, simple to use, neat features, fast and free. Worked fine for me too under Lion. I found that if the album names are too general it sometimes produces a time-out, although still providing a good selection of artwork. That is a minor complaint though.

Thanks Mark!

[Version 3.0]

knattlhuber reviewed on 26 Dec 2011

Fantastic little app. Contrary to the previous reviewer I experienced no problems under OSX Lion whatsoever.

[Version 3.0]

Michiel Brand reviewed on 19 Oct 2011

Hi, I used to like this app, but now it crashes all the time, probably not completely Lion-compatible yet... Hope it gets fixed soon!

[Version 3.0]

-15

Mark Lee commented on 01 Sep 2011

Kinda strange it searches for just album name. The most logic thing would be to search for "artist name" + "album name". Have to add artist name in to the search field manually each time...

[Version 3.0]

4 Replies

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Mark Lee replied on 01 Sep 2011

It also seems to have a filter for images not larger than 500px. Should be 600px, which is default for artwork pulled from iTunes Store.

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Mark Lee replied on 01 Sep 2011

Disregard the last comment.

Marc Liyanage (developer) replied on 14 Sep 2011

I had better results with just album name. Not that you can switch to artist + album in the little popup menu in the search field. I plan to make that sticky sometime.

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Mark Lee replied on 15 Sep 2011

Well, how can you have better results with just an album name if an album is, for example, called "White"? How many bands have an album with that name? How many anything can have that name? Making album+artist stick would be most awesome (or just an option in the preferences to set default search).

nikabuz reviewed on 06 Apr 2011

Pros: Simple. Easy to use. Very rarely fails to find artwork. Usually gives you plenty of options at various image sizes to choose from. Small file size. Pretty fast as well. Free!

Cons: A bit time-consuming if you've got a lot of artwork to find - no batch management function. Occasionally finds artwork then advises that it's not available for use - a minor annoyance.

Summary:
I use this software instead of the built-in artwork finder in iTunes. It locates artwork on both Amazon & Google. I like to use high quality artwork & sometimes iTunes doesn't locate good quality album covers or doesn't find them at all. With this program you get a choice. Generally will find several options & details the pixel size of each one.

It's brilliant & it's also free!
A real no-brainer.
Just get it - you won't be sorry.

FYI: I run Mac OSX 10.6.7 on a 24in Intel iMac.

[Version 3.0]

1 Reply

Marc Liyanage (developer) replied on 03 May 2011

Glad to hear you like it.

Note that there is a batch processing feature. You can send multiple albums to the "queue" and then later have it process that queue unattended.

Jrambo commented on 30 Sep 2010

this application works......and its free! does what i need, finds the correct album artwork and adds it to itunes. it would be nice if i did not have to select a track in itunes first...if the application could read my itunes library and let me search for an album.

all in all, great application that works. thanks to the developer, this app is much appreciated :-)

[Version 2.9]

Sethlesser commented on 05 Feb 2010

This program works magnificently! It works cleanly and simply and the website search function works so easily that I will not rely on the other programs (or iTunes own album art search) again. It is actually superior to other methods because you search for and see the best copy of the album cover you are looking for.

[Version 2.9]

+74

Tekl commented on 05 Feb 2010

Really helpful, but it would be nice to have quicklook or bigger zoom.

[Version 2.9]

+99

Lounge Deluxe reviewed on 07 Dec 2009

This is truly an amazing app. As so many of us I already tried numerous apps and widgets that find missing cover art, but Album Art Assistant stands out above all of them. It shows the resolution of the found cover art, and it even lets you adjust the search queue manually when it doesn't find the right cover art because you have added something like "disc 1" to the album title.

If cover art doesn't find anything (relevant) you can go to the build-in(!) web browser and search for your cover art, right-click on it and add it! Impressive!

And its speed is blazing fast. Adding cover art to songs is double as fast compared to when I manually select an album in iTunes, click ctrl-i, paste the cover art into its field and have iTunes adjust the music files. Now that's amazing, AAA is double as efficient as the programmers of Apple could achieve for this particular task (I use only Apple Lossless files).

Thank you dev for this beautiful app. Highly recommended!

[Version 2.7]

Cjazzy reviewed on 02 Oct 2009

Just downloaded it and was quickly able to find 5 album covers for individual tracks. One-click upload and the album art was added to iTunes. Thank you. I only wish I found this months earlier!

[Version 2.6]

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VHaran rated on 05 Mar 2011

[Version 3.0]

Jamieb-64 rated on 16 Feb 2011

[Version 3.0]

Wojtypa rated on 04 Jan 2011

[Version 3.0]

Downloads:45,612

Version Downloads:16,769

Type:Multimedia & Design : MP3

License:Free

Date:28 Nov 2010

Platform:Intel

Price:Free

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