Album Artwork migration from iTunes to Media Monkey

[Guest]

I've been using iTunes for quite sometime and recently switched to Media Monkey... ':D'

However, i have several MBs of Album Artwork (Downloaded from the iTunes Store) saved by iTunes in the "My Music\iTunes\Album Artwork" folder which i can't use in Media Monkey!!!! ''

Its in some weird (.itc) format which can't be opened. And the Art Work folders are named in numbers....

When i play such a file in Media Monkey, it doesn't show any Art Work.
Is there any method of transferring the Art Work? (Preferably batch transfer coz i have over 7000 songs).

Thanks in advance.
I use Windows XP Service Pack 2, Media Monkey 3.0.1.1127, iTunes 7.4.3.1

[Macarena]

However, i have several MBs of Album Artwork (Downloaded from the iTunes Store) saved by iTunes in the "My Music\iTunes\Album Artwork" folder which i can't use in Media Monkey!!!! ''

Its in some weird (.itc) format which can't be opened. And the Art Work folders are named in numbers....

When i play such a file in Media Monkey, it doesn't show any Art Work.
Is there any method of transferring the Art Work? (Preferably batch transfer coz i have over 7000 songs).

I think you have to make iTunes understand that it has to store the albumarts (covers) into tags of the tracks. If they will be stored, you won.

[Guest]

Okay.... Do you have Steve Jobs' number???
I'll ask him.....

[Dirhael]

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"

[Guest]

Well i copied the bitmaprip.exe file and the icrip.bat files onto my C:\WINDOWS directory....

i'm not sure what you're talking about keeping the artwork floder copied to...

Please help!

[Dirhael]

Well i copied the bitmaprip.exe file and the icrip.bat files onto my C:\WINDOWS directory....

i'm not sure what you're talking about keeping the artwork floder copied to...

Please help!

Im simply mean that you should copy all of the *.itc files you want to extract the covers from to a single folder

[DazB]

Hi,

This is best handled via scripting as if the album art has been added to tracks where the artist/track/album names were a match for the iTunes store then the names of them (for single tracks) will match those in the iTunes xml file. Tracks that you have as parts of album sets are named slightly differently. Tracks not tagged/matched correctly are another ball game I have failed to win so far

Daz

[Macarena]

Okay.... Do you have Steve Jobs' number???
I'll ask him.....

Can I import album art downloaded by iTunes into MM?

[nojac]

Since there is no script for this available, I think you will have to copy the albumart from iTunes and then paste it into the MM Album Art window one album at a time.

Quite a job if you have several hundred albums. Apple want you to stay with iTunes. So they don't make it easy for you....

I once tested a script for batch converting the itc files to jpg. But it was too much work to manually find the right folder for each file.