[Paulkai]

Hi guys

I hVE ASKED THIS BEFORE BUT NEVER GOT ROUND TO GETTING ANYTHING DONE, i NOW HAVE OVER A 100GIG OF MUSIC WHICH IS IN ITUNES, I HAVE SPENT THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS GETTING ALL THE ALBUM WORK CORRECT, WITH A PROGRAMME CALLED TUNEUP, EVERYTHING IS WORKING FINE IN ITUNES, BUT WHEN I GO TO TRANSPARENCY, AND POINT IT TO MY MUSIC COLLECTION ALL THE DATE TRANFERS BUT ONLY SOME OF IT HAS ALBUM ART, BUT FANART CAN NOT BE HIGHLIGHTED?? I EVEN TRIED THE MUSIC PLUG IN FOR ITUNES, IT KEEP SAYING SCRIPT FAILED? DO I NEED TO INSTALL SOMETHING ELSE FOR THIS TO WORK..

P.S RUNNING NEW XBMC BETA 1 IF THAT IS ANY USE

THANK PAUL

[joebrady]

helpful reading:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=ITunes_%28DAAP%29

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Music_Library

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Fanart#Music_FanArt_in_XBMC

Please supply a debug log (see my sig for instructions) and please stop YELLING at us.

[iggy23]

sounds like iTunes is downloading artwork from the store, which doesn't embed it in the file. You need something like iTSV:

http://code.google.com/p/itsfv/

which will grab the cover art from iTunes and both embed it in the mp3 AND put is as a folder.jpg in the album folder.

fanart should be in the artist folder.

eg

The Beatles
>fanart.jpg
>folder.jpg (band thumbnail)
>>>Sgt Pepper
>>>>>>folder.jpg
>>>>>>whenI'm64.mp3
>>>>>>Lucyintheskywithdiamonds.mp3

etc

If you're running Beta1 in Windows, then I have trouble getting fanart to list too (it will find it and show it ok, but if you try to "grab fanart" all you get is a blank list)

[boyofford]

sounds like iTunes is downloading artwork from the store, which doesn't embed it in the file. You need something like iTSV:

http://code.google.com/p/itsfv/

which will grab the cover art from iTunes and both embed it in the mp3 AND put is as a folder.jpg in the album folder.

fanart should be in the artist folder.

eg

The Beatles
>fanart.jpg
>folder.jpg (band thumbnail)
>>>Sgt Pepper
>>>>>>folder.jpg
>>>>>>whenI'm64.mp3
>>>>>>Lucyintheskywithdiamonds.mp3

etc

If you're running Beta1 in Windows, then I have trouble getting fanart to list too (it will find it and show it ok, but if you try to "grab fanart" all you get is a blank list)

Just to add to this, my library didn't pick up the relevant .jpgs but you can manually add them once you've added them to the relevant folders by clicking on INFORMATION in ARTIST view and and clicking the relevant button, it will show you the one in the folder. Does that make sense?