For thoswe of you with Album Artwork issues...

[mmcnier]

Its a P.I.T.A. at first, but after its all said in done its worth it. And moving forward, easier to do when adding new stuff to the library.

[tx_dbs_tx]

That's why I don't use iTunes to handle my music files for my Blackberry device. It's slow and not user friendly and it just makes the adding music to your BlackBerry too much of a chore if you are working with mp3's. Windows Media Player rips extremely fast and automatically downloads album art. You can simply copy your entire music collection to your BlackBerry music folder in one easy step with no hassle at all.

[mmcnier]

iTunes automatically downloads it too. Windoze Media Player sometimes is wrong. i like iTunes more because I have more control over name formatting and using my own album artwork. Sometimes I dont like an album cover and make my own, like with Britney Spears Circus.

[tx_dbs_tx]

Ok whatever works best for you. I just wanted to mention there are other options for simplicity and sometimes simplicity and functionality far surpass some apps when just want to get it done fast. I would like to learn how to use iTunes so mabe you could give me some tips. I can never get automatic album art to download because I don' subscribe. Is there a way around that?

[mmcnier]

Yes.
Option 1
Subscribe. You dont have to pay for it. Just create an iTunes account and never use it to download music. If you have kids, you can disable downloads through the parental controls. I have an iTunes account, but I NEVER use it download music.
Option 2
Manually add all the album artwork to each song. I do this for albums that iTunes cant find. Go to a website like CDNow.com and copy/paste the album artwork. or make your own. I love making my own album artwork.

Keep in mind the best size for album artwork is between 400*400 & 600*600 pixels.

Now for more in depth help with working iTunes, I reccomend Googleing "How To Use iTunes". The top 3 links are probably your best shot.

[tx_dbs_tx]

Thanks for that info. It's nice to know that you don' have to actually pay a membership fee in order to download album art. I will look into it.

[RHS]

Originally Posted by mmcnier

In iTunes, on the bottom left corner, make sure you have the album artwork set to "Selected Item". For EACH song, copy & paste the artwork. It resets it to be associated with the file. Viola! Now the artwork will be displayed with each song.

Where do you paste the artwork once it's copied? In the same folder as the song on the BB or somewhere else?

[mmcnier]

Right click on the image. Click COPY. Then right click on the image again and click PASTE. If you dont have the paste function listed, you didnt successfully copy the album artwork.

[RHS]

Originally Posted by mmcnier

Right click on the image. Click COPY. Then right click on the image again and click PASTE. If you dont have the paste function listed, you didnt successfully copy the album artwork.

Thanks. It worked. But that wasn't intuitive to me; to copy and paste back onto the same image. How did you know to do that?

[mowmow24]

For those who are still having some problems updating their album art using the new blackberry os6... BB does not use the same logic as iPhone or your usual media players (i.e. iTunes, WMP, etc)... it organizes your music according to its "album" well.. its quite logical if you ask me..

So anyways, if BB sees your album name exactly the same on the other file, it will use the album art of that file..

For example:

Katy Perry has the same album name as Lady Gaga, if it read Katy Perry's file name first, then it will have the same album art as Lady Gaga...

Solution:

Update the name of Lady Gaga's file to have the correct album name, then, BB will load its correct album art.. (that is if this file really has a loaded album art in it).



hope this info helps...