This is a neat trick to use local image files as artwork. I never thought about using it this way and this version fixes the crash. Let me know if there are any issues.Album Artwork Assistant used to crash when you dragged an image from the local hard disk into the built-in web browser and selected it. I think there was a reason why I disabled this, but it seems to work now. You can now select tracks in playlists, instead of just in the main Music group in iTunes. Thanks to everyone who took the time to write a description of what they were doing in the crash report. Click or tap on OK and it’s all fixed up for that set of tracks Note that iTunes might be a bit inconsistent showing the new album cover art until you quit and restart the iTunes program. This is a neat trick to use local image files as artwork. Now go back to the iTunes Get Info page where the artwork is missing and paste it in I use Control-V to paste, btw. If you've got many albums lacking covers, then Album Artwork Assistant can help fill the gaps in your collection. The perennial problem exists though, some singles and albums will inevitably return no results but on average, the hit rate is far better than by just using iTunes cover art searcher alone. Once you've selected it, another button enables you to send it directly to iTunes where you can add it to your collection. All of the album covers possible are shown in the lower window. Album Artwork Assistant will then give you a whole host of choices of album art to choose from - too many in most cases - and you can then select which one you want. All you have to do to use it is select the name of the album you want to check for from your iTunes collection. This could be for security reasons similar to the way apps are sandboxed-not allowed to access any resources outside of the apps themselves-perhaps iTunes is locking down its access to third-party tools.Using Album Artwork Assistant is simple. This suggests that Apple is shutting the door on these tools. (If you’re not familiar with the iTunes visualizer, read this article.)Ī report from one visualizer developer says that iTunes no longer accesses third-party visualizers.
I’ve gotten lots of emails about third-party visualizes no longer working, or even showing up in the View > Visualizer menu. I hadn’t realized how many people use the iTunes visualizer until iTunes 12.6 was released. Is there a fix for this, or has Apple killed off third-party visualizers? Q: I noticed that when I updated to iTunes 12.6 most of my visualizers disappeared. This may replace your existing artwork, so I don’t recommend that you use it. If you’re in Songs view, and you have the artwork column visible, you can choose Get Album Artwork by right-clicking the artwork area.Īs you say, the File > Library > Get Album Artwork menu item tries to get artwork for the entire library.