Getting Vista, Zune Or Another MP3 Player? How To Migrate From iTunes
November 11th, 2006 • Related • Filed Under
Now there are 2 ways you can add the folder.jpg images to your mp3 tags that we created with iArt. You can either just add artwork to those tracks that have a 0 in the art column, or you can replace any existing art with the folder.jpg images.
I’d recommend replacing all existing artwork as the folder.jpgs that were created from iTunes are probably better quality.
- Select all your files (or just the ones with no artwork if you’re confident they are good quality) and then click on ‘View’ and then ‘extended tags’
- In the window that pops up click on the ‘X’ ON THE RIGHT to delete all of the embedded art and then click ‘OK’. DO NOT Click ON THE ‘X’ on the left as this WILL DELETE ALL OF YOUR TAG INFORMATION. If you do happen to do this by mistake, then mp3tag has a handy undo option (‘Edit/Undo’) which can be used at any time if you do anything wrong.
Now that your mp3 tags are art free it’s time to import the better quality folder.jpg images that we created. To do this again select all of your tracks and click on the ‘Quick Actions’ icon in the toolbar. Choose ‘Import cover from file as your action’ and in the next window enter ‘folder.jpg’ as the name of the image to look for. mp3tag will now go away and add the correct high quality iTunes artwork to the embedded tag within your mp3 files.
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Great post, although there is a way to shorten the process of getting album art into the tags using Tag & Rename. It has a spiffy feature that will automatically add “folder.jpg” to music files within the folder.
http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
*Grant
mp3tag does the same thing. I went for a long winded approach to make sure that some tracks don’t end up with multiple embedded artwork and to make sure that the iTunes one which is normally the best one is the one that gets embedded.
[...] iRiver Clix 2gb This is a fantastic little mp3 player. I guess I am a bit of an iRiver fanboy - I really enjoy their design and UI - this is the 4 iRiver mp3 player I’ve purchased. I am a big fan of the look of this player, a simple small rectangle with no visible buttons on the surface. In fact, each side is a button, so you navigate by pressing the sides of the surface. The UI itself is simple and quick. I really enjoy its ability to display album art with mp3s. I rarely buy albums anymore, so it is great to see the cd covers with the music. I am trying to encode all my mp3z with album art from iTune through the geeky process described here. The clix gets bonus points for it’s ability to display photos and movies, both look great. One downer is that it only supports Windows Media Player or MediaMonkey. Also, you have to plug it into a computer to recharge unless you buy their special charging cable. [...]
excellent artilce
I to have been ruminating about migrating back to MP11
with over 45GB of music - i am tired of having itunes duplicate everything on my hard drive
sure they say that life would be simpler if you migrate completely to their side - but I am an old fashioned/prudent computer user and prefer to keep my files and structures the way I want to - and unencumbered by any one system
long live freedom of choice
cheers
I actually wimped out and went back to iTunes despite all the hassle. It was the only way I could get my album art onto my iPod
I went through this too and found Media Monkey to be the answer. It has great tagging capability, works well with the iPod, supports album art on the ipod, supports winamp plugins, tons of flexibility, and stores the ID3 tag info in the tags themselves.
It’s free except for advanced features, $30 or so for advanced features and lifetime upgrades.
http://www.mediamonkey.com
If you insist on going with WMP11, then there is a 3rd party ipod plugin available, but I don’t remember who wrote it.
I downloaded the material suggested, went through the steps, but I have a problem now. In Media Play the playlists showup, but have now songs in them. It tells me that no songs are available. What do I do now? Have I done something wrong? Please let me know.
@Cody
you could try itunes export to copy your playlists
As much as I am trying to get away from using Itunes, it is so hard. The thing that keeps pulling me back is my song listing and the amount of times played. Yes it makes me feel good knowing that the Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers themes song has been played a whopping 20 times