TuneSleeve - album art importer

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TuneSleeve - album art importer

by Jason Clarke Dec 4th 2006

Some of the best comments from the recent How to fix your iTunes album art post pointed out some 3rd party tools that are available to make importing album art easier. My favorite of the bunch so far is TuneSleeve. Here are the design goals the developer used to create TuneSleeve:

Being able to work with albums, not individual songs. We're talking about album artwork after all, aren't we?
Being able to choose what artwork I want among all possible results found on the internet, because the CD cover for an original edition is not always the same as the 20th anniversary special edition.
In addition to automatic searching, being able to launch an external search in my browser and manually choose the artwork I want by dragging it from my browser to TuneSleeve.
Being able to download artwork for my entire library or a specific playlist.
Being able to exclude songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store, since they already come with good quality artwork.
Being able to exclude songs that already have album artwork, as I might already have spent some precious time manually finding and dragging album cover images for these songs.
Being able to replace existing artwork with the downloaded artwork or to add the downloaded artwork to the existing one, because the software might find a better quality album art than the one that is already there.

In practice, it works exactly as advertised. TuneSleeve is the most straightforward method to quickly scan for and add album artwork to your music files. TuneSleeve requires the .Net 2.0 framework

Tags: album art, album art downloader, AlbumArt, AlbumArtDownloader, iTunes album art, ItunesAlbumArt, TuneSleeve

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mark said 6:42PM on 12-04-2006

Anyone else find it ironic that a product meant as a complement to iTunes requires .Net framework?

Aaron said 4:51AM on 12-05-2006

youre very special indeed if you cannot read.

It has come to light because people were having problem with itunes and someone had made this already!!

he did not make it because itunes is s**t (which it is)

he made it as general app, not to help itunes!!! so no its not that funnyy!!

sorry i am in a bad mood today

Alex said 3:19PM on 1-10-2007

does tunesleeve search automaticaly or do you have to tell it to search for artwork?

Yatzek said 5:51PM on 1-22-2007

Program looks good, but... it doesn't work :( First step seems to be OK. Program properly located albums with no artwork. Then it tries to load album artworks, but after 1 min or so it stops. At the bottom i can see message: "An error occured while downloading album artwork from the internet"
What error? - don't know.
Aha, I have NET Framework 2.0 installed and I use MS Windows XP Home Edition. iTunes and Tunesleeve - newest versions.
Does anyone have same problem? Maybe (hopefully) solution?

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