When you're going from CD to iPod there are some vital things to take across. Music, of course, there's all that stuff about the album / artist / track name, and that little thing - the picture. Album art.
I worry a lot about album art, you don't have to. Here's why. If you buy music online the art comes with it, if you have a ripped CD collection and you use iTunes you can get cover art from iTunes Music Store. At no cost by the way. The images stay on your PC and are downloaded to your iPod when you sync. No problem.
When we rip your CDs we have to ensure those little images come over with the DVD or hard drive containing your tracks. The safest way to do that is to store a copy of each image inside the data file that is the "track". iTunes doesn't do this as standard and for that reason we use other software which carries out the art embedding for us. I have a great bit of software that does it.
All of a sudden - two people want to talk to me about album art. One just pitching a product, the other at least had the decency to ask about what we need from an album art product. Both wanted to know, is there a massive market for this sort of product? My view, sorry, is no. If you're an end user, as opposed to a CD ripping business, just hook up with iTunes and they'll take care of the pictures. As for CD ripping services - if there are more than 50 in the world I'd be amazed.
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