"little" iTunes problem

Hello! I have a little problem with iTunes. I have 4,400 songs that I transfered from my old pc when I bought this macbook, everything transfered no problem. The thing is, in order to get all the album art for all the music I need to create an iTunes account, and to do that I need to live in one of the specified countries (which I don't, I live in Venezuela). The third step in creating the account asks you for credit card information with a US (or whatever qualified country) billing address. I'm guessing there is no way around this.

So is there some sort of plugin or a different program that I can download which will get all the album art of all my music? I would HATE having to go through 19 gigs of music and have to find and add each album art.

Thanks in advance!!

 

search iTunes album art in google, there are a few free online places that do a decent job of finding all of the album art for your library, that is wierd that there is no Venezuela iTunes store.

 

Actually, apple has iTunes for like 20 countries only. So it's not like it's weird And yes I would do a search on google, but that just takes toooo long. I just thought there was another automated way like how iTunes does it.

 

that sucks - why on earth would they need your credit card information and address just to access album art?

too greedy!

 

As circa86 said, there are 3rd-party programs that will scour the internets for album art. I'm one of those people who doesn't like a-a embedded in my files, so there are also programs, happily, that can remove it.

 

I have a fairly large collection of music which iTunes has not managed to find the album art for most of.

Are any of these 3rd party programs particularly recommended/good for 'non-mainstream' music?

 

do a search on apple widget's there are a few free widgets which will grab the album art for the song playing

 

thanks for that. from what I can gather there are lots of such software but most are little better than iTunes. so if someone can recommend a specific good one, that would be fantastic, I prefer not to try a load at random :O)

 

iTunes doesn't embed, anything into each file, the online album art finders are decent, but iTunes is much better, makes if much much simpler, and a lot of the times those online ones aren't super accurate.

if you have a lot of obscure music you will just have to find it on Amazon or something, or search for it on iTunes, and if you have the CD, which you should, scan in the cover.

iTunes manages album art and all of the info much better than any other program, it is so easy to backup everything with out losing any of your ratings and all of that good stuff.

still kind of suprised iTunes store is for that few of countries, but just goes to show where the market is I guess.

 

Hmm... I haven't registered with the iTunes Store and iTunes still downloads album art for me when I add something. Well, except for the fact that it doesn't recognize much of what I listen to

 

How do you do that? It downloads it automatically or what?

I even tried turning on the ministore and dragging the album art from the store but that doesn't work either. I need to have the picture file on my hdd.