Having an image attached to a song

[Ross]

When I play a song by Roymond in iTunes it shows with his picture in the album art window. How do I go about attaching and image to my songfight songs like that?

[roymond]

I use iTunes.

- Copy the image to the pasteboard
- Select the song in iTunes
- open the information window (Ctrl-i) and select the Artwork tab
- paste it in

Do the same for lyrics and they will show in applications that support it (like on iPhone).

[Billy's Little Trip]

I would imagine that you attach an image file in the properties summery area of the mp3. Maybe in the comments?
Ross, I'm just guessing to see if I'm on the right track, until Roymon comes here and tells us what he does.

edit: Wow, the page loaded so slow, that Roy posted before mine showed up.
...and was was wrong, lol.

[ujnhunter]

Since you already use iTunes that might be best what Roymond said... I use MediaMonkey to tag and add album art to mine, I don't use iTunes.

[Billy's Little Trip]

I right click on the mp3/properties/summery/advanced

[ujnhunter]

I right click on the mp3/properties/summery/advanced

You can't add album art that way... at least not that I can see.

[Billy's Little Trip]

I right click on the mp3/properties/summery/advanced

You can't add album art that way... at least not that I can see.

Nope, just text. But you can ad a web address for more info. The pic thing is pretty cool on the mp3 players with visual abilities or the computer, to see a pic. But I almost exclusively use my ipod shuffle, which doesn't have a screen. I like the shuffle because it holds a couple hundred songs at a time, which I upload from one of my many play lists, it's incredibly small and because it doesn't have to do anything but play music, the battery lasts 10 times longer between charges. The only time I use my ipod classic is when I plug it into my docking/speaking thing and plug it into my house system or if I'm going on a long trip.

[roymond]

I think it's awesome to see a picture on my iphone and also to be able to read the lyrics of a song while listening to it. Future devices will all support this so it's cool to get in the groove now so that everything works.

Duty now for the future, people!

[Billy's Little Trip]

also to be able to read the lyrics of a song while listening to it

See, now that sells me, right there. Pics I can take'm or leave'm. But lyrics kick ass while listening. Ok, I'll evolve now.

[roymond]

also to be able to read the lyrics of a song while listening to it

See, now that sells me, right there. Pics I can take'm or leave'm. But lyrics kick ass while listening. Ok, I'll evolve now.

So I found a way to update iTunes lyrics and artwork pretty well for commercial songs...(Mac only, but perhaps somebody has Win solutions)

Download these two items:
Harmonic - a cool little lyric/artwork widget
Needle Drop - simple Applescript for iTunes

Run Needle Drop from iTunes and it will play all your tunes in the current list for 10 seconds. This is long enough for Harmonic to find the lyrics and artwork and update the song files in your iTunes library.

Run a test on a small set (an album). I find it's getting 95% of the songs, but some obscure things are less reliable.

Also, there are some nifty (100s, actually) Apple scripts for iTunes at http://dougscripts.com/iTunes that do things like lookup the current selection or playing song on Amazon, Wikipedia, or AllMusic. This makes filling in those missing album art or finding the credits for a song pretty simple.

[Märk]

I use Mp3tag, you can load a whole folder in the window and update/edit id3v2 info, including just drag-and-dropping a picture into the picture window. You used to be able to add pictures to mp3s in windows media player, but they took that ability out in WMP11 for some reason...