[iTunes] Album Covers

[Steve Martin]

buy.com has nice ones.

I usually copy them to the clipboard, scale them to 300x300  with 
Graphic Converter, save them as "web ready" .jpg files at reasonable 
quality, then drag them into iTunes.  That seams to keep the size small 
(20K or so).

Never drag straight from a WWW browser or it will put uncompressed 
image data in there seriously increasing the size of your music files.


On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 12:46  PM, Dan Shaw wrote:

> I have discovered that decent quality cover art for some albums is 
> difficult
> to find.  I generally prefer Amazon to AMG because the ppi and 
> resolution
> are better, but Amazon has a lot of gaps in their file base.  My 
> observation
> has been that approximately 275x275 pixels fits nicely into the 
> largest size
> option for the album cover window.
>
> One of my current diversions is creating higher quality picture 
> clippings
> from the best picture files I can find on the internet.  If you'd like 
> to
> send me any requests for hard-to-find album covers, I'll give you my 
> jpgs if
> I have them.
>
> Best,
> Dan
>
>
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