Widget Wonderment: Amazon Album Art

Posted by Steven Owens on 05/18/07 in Tips & Tricks, Widgets

Dashboard Logo Most people have probably experienced iTunes not properly retrieving their album art. An easy (and free) solution to this problem is the great widget Amazon Album Art by Widget Foundry.

You simply select the track in iTunes, click the iTunes logo in the widget , choose the correct album art, and then click “Set as album art in iTunes.” In my experiences the widget does a great job selecting album art, but if it does not pick the correct art, clicking the logo in the upper right allows you to see thumbnails of all the matching album art. It is as simple as that to solve your iTunes album art woes.

Amazon Album Art

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Marvin Sum said on

May 18th, 2007 at 6:11 am

This is a widget that I use all the time. Very very handy!

Nathaniel Perales said on

May 18th, 2007 at 1:39 pm

I actually prefer Liquidx Album Art Widget. It searches for you and offers rating of songs. This widget helped me get every artwork for every album in my humungous iTunes library.

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Julian said on

May 18th, 2007 at 3:55 pm

Yea this widget helps me loads…but ill check Album Art Widget because of what Nathaniel Perales says is very kewl.

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Marvin Sum said on

May 18th, 2007 at 5:50 pm

I think all these widgets are great, but they lack the feature to validate the ID3 tags (metadata).

Simply grabbing data from GraceNote will correct a lot of errors in my ID3 tags. Developers out there, here’s a great idea!