Are you one of those searching the internet for a method or maybe software that will embed album art into AIFF music files? If so I can suggest a workaround (in a paragraph or two).
First, why is it an issue? If you run iTunes you can search / add album art, free, if you have an iTunes store account. Dig around the iTunes menu and you'll find a way via Library to find and download album art. Then you'll see it neatly in your iTunes windows. But, suppose you don't use iTunes or you need to transfer tracks to another system. iTunes doesn't embed art into music files so you'll lose all those nice images. Ideally you'd like the little piccies stored safely along with the notes and other data.
Second, I am not ware of any software that will embed album art into AIFF files. We use three of the leading products in this field and none offers this function.
OK, patience repaid, here's the bodge method. If you rip your music CDs as Apple Lossless you'll find loads of programs that will add album art neatly into the right field. Then, use iTunes to convert from Lossless to AIFF, that will bring the cover images along with the music. Delete "source" Apple Lossless and you're done.
If you want to validate Lossless - AIFF against straight AIFF just use both methods and compare file sizes for each track from a couple of albums - will be the same. Simples.
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Thursday, May 02, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
CD Ripping & Album Artist Field
They don't always take our advice, and although I'm being paid to do it in a few minutes I have to grind my way through 100+ edits of album data for a client.
He has a substantial number of what iTunes thinks of a compilation CDs. Hotel Costes springs to mind, where a famous DJ puts together a collection of tracks; each one under its own artist attribution but the whole CD is directed by another person. How best to handle this?
My suggestion was to use the field "Album Artist" which we can add during CD ripping. This would result in the album name being what you see on the cover, each track is credited to the right artist but inside the Music file (should you ever need to look) the tracks are filed under that person's name, who can also be searched on and is listed in iTunes. No, this wasn't my clients desired strategy so instead I will need to insert the DJ's name before the name of the album in the album title field.
Had we done it my way the DJ's name would still appear in the Artist column in iTunes, and still be available to search, and the album name would remain untouched. But then the customer is always right (even when he's wrong) and I keep telling myself we are a service business so stick a smile on your face and get on with it.
He has a substantial number of what iTunes thinks of a compilation CDs. Hotel Costes springs to mind, where a famous DJ puts together a collection of tracks; each one under its own artist attribution but the whole CD is directed by another person. How best to handle this?
My suggestion was to use the field "Album Artist" which we can add during CD ripping. This would result in the album name being what you see on the cover, each track is credited to the right artist but inside the Music file (should you ever need to look) the tracks are filed under that person's name, who can also be searched on and is listed in iTunes. No, this wasn't my clients desired strategy so instead I will need to insert the DJ's name before the name of the album in the album title field.
Had we done it my way the DJ's name would still appear in the Artist column in iTunes, and still be available to search, and the album name would remain untouched. But then the customer is always right (even when he's wrong) and I keep telling myself we are a service business so stick a smile on your face and get on with it.
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