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Some people may not feel album art
is essential, but for completists it is
a necessity. If you’re an iTunes user,
you’ve no doubt discovered that the
program can now fetch art for all the
songs in your library. However, this art
doesn’t get embedded in the actual
song files, so if you play your music
elsewhere, the images won’t appear. It’s
a similar situation with Windows Media
Player, which places artwork files in
the folder containing the album. Not all
portable players will absorb these files
when you sync with your PC.
MediaMonkey does it right, adding
album art to each song’s metada-
ta, so the art goes where the song
goes. Select one or more tracks for a
particular album and then fire up your
browser and head to http://www.albumart.
org. Search for the album in question,
right-click the appropriate image, and
copy it to your clipboard. Head back to
MediaMonkey, right-click in the empty
Album Art pane, and choose Paste. An
options box will appear; all the default
choices should be suitable, so click OK
and you’re done.
You can accomplish this task more
quickly by using the automated method
described in the next step.
Fixing errors in a band’s name (or add-
ing a name) is a snap. First, select all
the tracks in the album you want to fix.
MediaMonkey lets you apply global
changes to multiple tracks: Press Shift-
Enter to open the Edit Properties box;
then type the correct name into the Artist
field. If other global changes are needed,
make them now as well. Just be sure
to leave Track Title and Track Number
alone, or you’ll overwrite the informa-
tion for all the tracks you selected, giv-
ing them all the
same name.
If you’re not
thrilled about
making manual
adjustments to
your songs’ tags
or you’re just not
sure you have
the right informa-
tion, there’s an
automated (albeit
riskier) option in
Use the Edit Properties dialog to apply global changes to an step 6.
album’s worth of ID3 tags.
Fix Incorrect Tags
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Find Missing Album Art
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The Albumart.org site is a great resource for album covers,
which you can copy and paste into MediaMonkey.