[Topgamer7]

My father has been going bonkers about trying to just set his own album art in itunes about the library he maintains of cd rips. The dialog for setting the cover art just doesn't work. You can choose the image, it doesn't report any errors or anything went wrong, but it never sets the album image.

The only thing I managed to get to work was if you can find the album in the itunes store, and match all the metadata, you can get the automatic metadata logic to set it properly for you.

But he has some esoteric versions of albums, and he wants to use those album covers that itunes doesn't have in their db.

[rchaud]

This is the biggest reason why I never owned an iPod long-term. Everything had to be done via iTunes.

I owned players from Sandisk, Toshiba, Sony and Creative, and they were all dead simple. Just drag the folders on to the player icon. If the folder contains an image, that's the album art.

I owned a ton of unofficial B-sides compilations and live bootlegs, so this was the only way.

[austhrow743]

Back when I was super in to keeping a lossless FLAC music stockpile instead of just using Spotify, I remember all the music nerds using things like id3 namer hooked in to musicbrainz to organise music and things like foobar2000 to play it. Which lets you arrange the ui layout exactly how you want.

Might be worth suggesting he upgrade his tooling to more hobbiest level stuff.

[Topgamer7]

He's computer literate. But not quite that computer literate when it comes to that. I also have concerns about how well supported this kind of thing still is. I used to use mp3tag to do similar things. But as more people move towards spotify, and api's go defunct. You just end up with buggy software my father won't understand what the issue is.

He's also pretty engrained in iPhone and iPad stuff. So the end zone is the album art still has to load in iTunes to show up properly on his phone.

[danlugo92]

Its been years but have you tried clicking on the album art, after selecring it? It should show up inside thst little window but then you gotta click on it then click ok/save/whateves

[Topgamer7]

I have not, but I will give it a look, thanks!

[danlugo92]

How did it go?

[Topgamer7]

No dice. It does select the image. But after you click on ok nothing happens.

So to be clear, we get past the point of selecting the image. After clicking ok to set the selected image to the album, it just does nothing.