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How to Import Album Artwork

If you want to get the most from your digital music, you should ensure that all of your song files include album artwork. This will bring visual appeal to your music software and MP3 player by displaying an exact rendering of the appropriate album cover as each song plays. If you buy your music from online music stores, your purchase will most often include the album art by default, but if you rip your music from CDs, you may not have such luck. When the artwork fails to appear, you can add it yourself.

Instructions

  1. Add Artwork Using Windows Media Player

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      Locate the album art online. Type the album title and artist name into the "Search" bar of a popular image search engine like Yahoo!, Bing or Google. Choose the artwork from the search results and save it to your hard drive by right-clicking it and choosing "Save Image As."

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      Open Windows Media Player and click the "Library" tab.

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      Highlight all of the songs on the list that should contain the album artwork. Hold down the "Shift" key while clicking each song to make multiple selections.

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      Right-click any one of your selected songs and choose "Advanced Tag Editor" from the list of options.

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      Select the "Pictures" tab and click "Add" to upload the artwork from your hard drive. Use the navigation window to locate and select your image. Click "Open" after highlighting the image.

    Add Artwork Using Winamp

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      Locate the album art online. Type the album title and artist name into the "Search" bar of a popular image search engine like Yahoo!, Bing or Google. Choose the artwork from the search results and save it to your hard drive by right-clicking it and choosing "Save Image As."

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      Open Winamp and highlight all of the songs to which you want to add the album art. To see all of your available songs, click the "Audio" tab in the "Media Library" column. Highlight multiple songs by holding "Shift" while clicking your selections.

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      Right-click any one of your selected songs and choose "View File Info" from the list of options.

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      Click the "Artwork" tab and select "Load Artwork" from the available options. Use the navigation window to locate and select your image.

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      Click "OK" when the image appears in the Preview window.

    Add Artwork Using iTunes

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      Locate the album art online. Type the album title and artist name into the "Search" bar of a popular image search engine like Yahoo!, Bing or Google. Choose the artwork from the search results and save it to your hard drive by right-clicking it and choosing "Save Image As."

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      Open iTunes and click the "Music" tab in the left column of the browser. Locate the songs on the list to which you would like to add the album artwork and highlight them by clicking with your mouse. Hold the "Shift" key to highlight multiple files.

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      Right-click any one of your selections and choose "Get Info" from the list of options.

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      Select the "Artwork" tab and click the "Add" button. Use the navigation window to locate and select your image. After you highlight your image file, click "Open" to upload the selection.

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      Click "OK" in the lower right corner of the "Get Info" window.

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