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Type in the name of the album? Or even the artist. If you're in Grid view (top right, next to search), you get pretty album art, you can simply drag & drop the
by joubert 17y ago
Type in the name of the album? Or even the artist. If you're in Grid view (top right, next to search), you get pretty album art, you can simply drag & drop the album into your playlist.
- randallsquared 17y agoThe name of the album or the artist are the kind of "seems like it should work" that doesn't work. Lots of artists reuse album names as (all or part of) song names, or there'll be other metadata in the ID3 tags that happens to match an album by a different artist, or whatever. Also, the grid view would be more useful if you did get album art for most albums, but most of the icons I see are a gray musical note. This is one of those better-in-theory features. :) Anyway, though I use it today for lack of an alternative, I'm still holding a grudge against iTunes for destroying my music library back in May 2003 when I switched. I only had five thousand tracks or so at that time, but most of them didn't have any ID3 information because I'd ripped them from CDs myself over the years, and the filenames already contained the information I cared about, which was visible in the CLI (I came from Linux); the ID3 tags were invisible metadata I never paid attention to. Then I imported my music, and iTunes helpfully arranged all my MP3s into "Unknown Artist/Unknown Album/Unknown Title (n).mp3" based on ID3 information that didn't exist. Thanks, iTunes.
- joubert 17y agoFor music I don't buy through iTunes, I either do "Get Albmum Art", or I find it online and add it manually. This is something I can highly recommend as your iTunes experience would certainly go up a notch.