I did a little research around the web, as even though I don't use iTunes as a music player, it is nice for getting good quality artwork.
While it won't completely solve the problem for you, here's how to extract all of the images to new jpg/png images quickly.
1. Download the tiny freeware utility
BitmapRip, and extract the executable somewhere accessible from your path (
C:\WINDOWS would be a good place).
2. Create a new text file with the following content:
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@echo off
mkdir processed > nul
forfiles /m *.itc /c "cmd /c BitmapRip @file"
move *.itc processed\
...and save it as "itcrip.bat" where you extracted BitmapRip (or somewhere else accessible in your path) (this is just a simple batch file I wrote to make things easier, seeing as BitmapRip can't handle wildcards like "*.itc" By default it will just extract the covers and move the processed itc files to a new subfolder named "processed")
3. Now all you have to do is to search the iTunes album art folder for files named *.itc, and copy them to a new location, open a command prompt and just type "itcrip"
I did a little research around the web, as even though I don't use iTunes as a music player, it is nice for getting good quality artwork.
While it won't completely solve the problem for you, here's how to extract all of the images to new jpg/png images quickly.
[b]1.[/b] Download the tiny freeware utility [url=http://mark0.net/soft-bitmaprip-e.html]BitmapRip[/url], and extract the executable somewhere accessible from your path ([i]C:\WINDOWS[/i] would be a good place).
[b]2.[/b] Create a new text file with the following content:
[code]
@echo off
mkdir processed > nul
forfiles /m *.itc /c "cmd /c BitmapRip @file"
move *.itc processed\
[/code]
...and save it as "itcrip.bat" where you extracted BitmapRip (or somewhere else accessible in your path) (this is just a simple batch file I wrote to make things easier, seeing as BitmapRip can't handle wildcards like "*.itc" By default it will just extract the covers and move the processed itc files to a new subfolder named "processed")
[b]3.[/b] Now all you have to do is to search the iTunes album art folder for files named *.itc, and copy them to a new location, open a command prompt and just type "itcrip" :)