Geek and a Half

August 2nd, 2006 by Jake

I stumbled across this little app while looking for itunes Plugins (which I later found out only works with Mac…stupid Apple…). It goes through your entire iTunes Library (or a playlist), searches either Amazon or Google and finds album art for each song. It’s supposed to be $10 shareware, but I haven’t found any restrictions yet. It utilizes track name, album name, and title. There’s even an automatic mode, so you can just let it run (it makes sure the song is in the album before assigning the art to it). I manually went through a playlist I have, and it seemed like it would have about 90% accuracy if I had let it run on its own (Certain art I changed because of preference, i.e. from a “Greatest Hits” album to the original). I’m going to let it loose on my library tonight and see what it comes up with (After it’s done it shows you % success), I’ll edit this post and let you know the outcome.

Download iArt Now! (And pay the guy $10 if you like his app!)

Edit: So there is a limit. I think you can do about 50 album arts before it stops working, which is reasonable. So I forked out the money and let it run last night, and my lirary was full of art this morning. It wasn’t always successful, and if I didn’t have an album there it would choose one for me and add the art (and fix the tags). I might delete all my album data and let it run again, just so that it can do everything all at once and have all the right data from Amazon. It is a really nice tool, especially if you do it manually.