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zman2005
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Old 2005-05-05, 18:28

If you go under system preferences then screensaver you will see the option iTunes. When you click on it the screen saver is supose to be a bunch of your album covers as small tiles. It is supose to flip them and bring in new album covers. Well I have over 15 albums on my iTunes but when I click on that button to make it my screen saver I only get 3 album covers. I don't know what else to try b/c I have more albums but it displays only three and doesn't look good. If anyone has any suggestions I am all ears. Thanks......
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Old 2005-05-05, 20:45

Only 15 albums? Maybe you need more so it can pick randomly? I don't know. I've got a lot more than that, so it's tough to say if it's "working" right.
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Old 2005-05-05, 20:46

i do have more then 15.....sorry i just threw that number in there, i have 4gigs worth of music......so i dono, does yours work?
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Old 2005-05-05, 21:07

Do all of your albums actually have album artwork?

Remember that unless you purchase your tracks from the online iTunes Music Store, you have to manually add the album art.

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Old 2005-05-06, 02:03

....How do I do that and honestly I've looked and tried to solve this problem this time.
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Old 2005-05-06, 02:15

wait......I sorta figured it out, thanks tho.....
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Old 2005-05-06, 02:51

And in case anyone else wanders in here wondering the same thing, you can check for album art by selecting a track and either getting info on it and clicking the Artwork tab or by selecting it and clicking the little artwork button to the right of the loop button.

So, was the problem that your albums didn't have art?

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Old 2005-05-06, 06:52

Ya, so my fix was to drag in album covers from a google image search into itunes.
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Old 2005-05-13, 12:24

Go download Clutter here:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18699

Pull up the browser window in Clutter and you can click on an artist and then an album and it will search amazon.com for artwork. It usually gets it right the first time but if it finds the wrong thing you can Ctrl+F to modify the search terms it is using and pick from the images it finds. Once you have the right album cover hit Ctrl+Shift+K and it will copy the artwork to the mp3's in that album.

There is also a Konfabulator Widget that does something similar but I like this better. Its freeware too!
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