To be honest, my iTunes library looks like is a mess , i have a lot of songs where i have no cover art, some songs have been imported from compilation cd’s without the correct mp3 tags, and so on ..

I’ve decided to start to clean up my iTunes library and the first thing i wanted was to get as much album art as possible.

In iTunes it’s possible to get your cover art automatically, but as i have a lot of album’s that aren’t listed in iTunes, i had to get my covers from somewhere else.

Luckily for me, Amazon has almost all album covers you can dream off.

I started searching for a tool that was capable of doing this the easy way

I found 2 tools capable of adding the album art without any hassle.

Tunesleeve and my favorite iTunes Art importer.

Let’s discuss the way to import your art with iTunes art importer.

Download iTunes art importer here.

Let’s install this little app.

If you start it and you see the following screen, please download the framework on the microsoft site.

ATTENTION IF you are running Vista !!!

If you are running vista, you won’t be able to install the microsoft .NET framework version 1.1,

please download this version and install it. I’ve created a .net framework 1.1 that is compatible with vista !

After the installation of the framework, you can rerun the iTunes art importer app.

This time you should get the following screen.

Just install the app, like you do with regular apps ..

Start your iTunes before you start iTunes art importer.

Now let’s run the app and have a look on how to import your artwork automatically..

Go to your itunes after launching the app.

Go to Library -> Music and select all your songs by pressing CTRL+A.

Now go to the iTunes Art Importer app and activate auto-import best guess (if you don’t do this, the app will stop as soon as it doesn’t find any art. )

Then click on the search button, and let the app do it’s work.

This can take quite some time , as it’s dependent on the size of your music catalogue.

But after that the app has ran, you will find that most of your music now has it’s cover art.

Enjoy