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    UPGRADING, not adding album art

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by yehrulz, Sep 16, 2008.

  1. yehrulz

    yehrulz Notebook Consultant

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    Bascially, i got a whole bunch of wma music that has low quality image art. I want a program that can auto-connect and download high-quality. I use a zune btw, so that's why album art is pretty important :) How can i approach this tedious problem of nearly 100 GB of music
     
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    synic Notebook Deity

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    It's amazing what google can find:

    http://digg.com/apple/Automatically_fetch_iTunes_album_art
    http://www.jtasoftware.com/iAutoArtwork/iAutoArtwork.htm

    Now I know these say iTunes, and I know you're using a Zune (which sorta means you might be out of luck since you cannot really use software other than the one provided by Microsoft to sync your music on your computer with your Zune), but take a look at those links anyway. Maybe you will stumble upon something else.

    There is also a program that works around the lock on the Zune. It allows you to use other programs to sync your music, but it is a pain in the ***.
     
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  3. KarenA

    KarenA Notebook Evangelist

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    I use a free program like Mp3Tag to download the high quality album arts from amazon. Not sure if that's what you want though.
     
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  4. yehrulz

    yehrulz Notebook Consultant

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    1. I use zune, and i have to convert to mp3, so itunes is a no-no
    2. http://www.jtasoftware.com/iAutoArtwork/iAutoArtwork.htm
    does that support wma?

    EDIT: for #2, it seems that it gets it from itunes, so no :(


    Does anyone have any other programs that do that? mp3 tag is sometimes on and off for me :/ I want this to be relitivately painless :) I'm really kinda urgent for this, since new zune stuff is supposed to come out today, and i want to upgrade firmware and music and all that.
     
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  5. KarenA

    KarenA Notebook Evangelist

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    Another program like Mp3Tag is Tag&Rename, but it is pay program... You can try the trial version though, if I remember correctly it will give full features of the program for limited time (a month, I think?).

    There is also a program called AlbumArtDownloader.
     
    KarenA, Sep 17, 2008
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  6. yehrulz

    yehrulz Notebook Consultant

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    ay, album art downloader seems pretty nice.

    I was orginally going to convert all the wma to mp3 using dbpoweramp, and use an itunes program to add art, but i figured that would take too long.

    I didn't want to use WMP or zune cause i never know when it writes to the file or just shows it in the player when i update a track listing/art.

    Wil album art downloader embed it into the file?
     
    yehrulz, Sep 17, 2008
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