Cheers!

Steve said on September 5, 2007:

This is what the original poster was looking for:

http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/index.html#itunes_insert_artwork

Keyword: AUTOMATIC

haha, you totally win, a lot of people missed the point, you however, have saved me hours of work

i agree i bought tunesleeve and found that i had some wrong artwork...it pulled some artwork from movies?????..this is perfect! i have for 70 gigs of music that want to be able to see in my vista media center using MCEtunes..it works great but ti will not pull album cover thats has been dl using itunes

Apple sends itunes jpg versions of the cover , but should you decide to drag it from the left corner to the desktop it saves it as a bmp (why?).

On the good side of the news the script works miracles.

I had only one album with downloaded artwork from apple that i hadn't manualy embeded into the tracks (as a test) and the script did it for me.

It also found some of the albums had duplicate covers (some of you might have front and back covers on the mp3,i didn't, i just had the same pic twice) and it gave an error while it was running. I copied the text from the command window to a txt file and manualy cleared the duplicate files.

So i then selected all the rest of my uncovered albums and right clicked "Get album artwork".iTunes downloads,Teridon's script embeds and i'm off to watch a movie. A very happy user indeed.
Once again this is the link to the script: http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/teridons_itunes_scripts.zip

A great thanx to Teridon and to you guys for pointing it out to me...

K all of this is great, but apple sends artwork in bmp format which is about 1 MB per file. Say you have a 10 track album. Embed the bmp files and you get about 7 mb of wasted on your ipod (10 tracks X 1 Mb bmp artwork = 10MBs instead of 10 tracks X 0,3MB jpg artwork = 3MBs).
I know that the new ipod is 160GB but there's got to be a better way to use that extra space.There should be some way to embed the same files in jpg format.
The way i do it is donload apple's cover , drag it on the desktop , open it with windows quick view thing , save it as a jpg, clear the downloaded artwork and drag the jpg file to the little box on the left. I do it because i only have a small number of uncovered albums but it's not what you'd call automatic.

All of that sounds plausible, but have you tried the script yet? The size of my library did not increase significantly (>1%), and the fact that i can move my music from computer to computer without losing my artwork is a godsend.