Adding album art to MP3 collection

**El Chupacabra** · 10-15-2007, 11:20 AM

I have a new MP3 player, a Microsoft Zune. It can display album art in full color. Problem is that all my MP3s (from old iRiver) weren't ripped with album art, since the old player didn't have a graphic display.

Searching around on google didn't turn up what I'm looking for: is there a program that will automatically search the internet (CDDB, Amazon, whatever) for album art, and then put the artwork into the MP3 tags?

I downloaded Mediamonkey, which will do this, but only 1 album at a time. That could take awhile. Zune software has an "update everything" feature, but it locks up after a few minutes, "server busy" message.

**Que** · 10-15-2007, 12:06 PM

I know this won't help as you have Zune, but I synched up my mp3 library with album art for my new iPod Touch (greatest thing since sliced bread IMHO) and only had about a 50% hit rate with iTunes.

**Mach Looney** · 10-15-2007, 01:17 PM

Mediamonkey was the only thing I found, too, for my iRiver Clix. I find the US Amazon database isn't that good, and a lot of times I have to switch to the UK or Canadian databases to find the right album art. If it were automated to do my whole collection I'm sure I'd spend a lot of time going back and fixing it anyway.

**hat** · 10-15-2007, 02:21 PM

WMP does it

**f2f** · 10-15-2007, 02:29 PM

i did mine one album at a time (for iTunes). took an afternoon and quite a few beers. don't regret it

**Tye 1on** · 10-15-2007, 09:35 PM

If you spray a little bear spray on it, it works a lot better.

**El Chupacabra** · 10-15-2007, 10:42 PM

Originally Posted by Tye 1on

If you spray a little bear spray on it, it works a lot better.

That's a good idea, I'll try that.

**El Chupacabra** · 10-16-2007, 08:03 AM

Update: I left the Zune software's "update everything" feature running overnight; it retrieved 68% of my music. Looks like I'll have to do the rest manually. Not a bad start though.