Assign More than One Album Cover to a Song in iTunes

One of the main focuses of iTunes is album covers. From cover flow to little pop-ups, album covers have become nearly ubiquitous in iTunes and most iPods. Traditionally, only one cover is assigned to each song. However, it is possible to assign more than one cover to a single song. To do this, simply select any song and enter the Get Info mode by pressing  . Select the Artwork pane on the far right, select “Add…,” then tell iTunes where to find the cover art.Although this does not have too many obvious positive values, it is a great tool for those of who want a logical way to store your album covers. This way, you can add images for the back of albums or liner art. Sadly, Apple does not allow assigning multiple covers when in the mass edit mode, so it is something you must do one-by-one for each song.

 
 

Submitted on December 27, 2007 at 2:00 pm - Assign More than One Album Cover to a Song in iTunes was written by Omer Zach - There have been 5 comments - Categorized in Easy Tips, iTunes Tips

5 Responses to “Assign More than One Album Cover to a Song in iTunes”

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   meet_the_only
   this may help some. use list view than hit command + b this should bring up the browser than click the album than hit command + I ,, it should do the whole album at once ... every once in awhile i can highlite and double clik music files in the finder and it auto inserts songs and art work.... how i dont know? December 27th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
   
   
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   Omer Zach
   @meet_the_only: That's what I was referring to in the post by "the mass edit mode." I find it frustrating that this tip doesn't work when viewing things in that format. December 28th, 2007 at 1:56 am
   
   
3. 
   Miki
   There's a simpler way.
   Select all titles of an album and drop the cover onto the Cover area (Command G) in the lower left of the iTunes window.
   
   Et voilà.
   Every selected title gets the dropped image as the cover. If you already assigned a cover than the dropped image become the second one and so forth. December 28th, 2007 at 4:21 am
   
   
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   Omer Zach
   @Miki: That's really great! I never knew you could do that. December 28th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
   
   
5. 
   Comi
   But what is really annoying: the iPod only displays the first of those covers. Why is it not possible to cycle through all of them on the iPod? February 5th, 2008 at 10:56 am
   
   

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