How to add album art to mp3? Are you frustrated that you are unable to embed album art in your songs? How do you create a track info for ipod or adding lyrics for your songs? These are questions that must have come across your mind if you want add album art to mp3 Mac OS X. It's understandable if you're befuddled by the options that are available on the net, because there are plenty of them. But how will you choose the best of all?
Sometimes no Artworks exist with the mp3 music files. Here it is described, how to add Artwork to the album in Mac.
The process to add artwork
Checking the artwork
- At first, go to the desktop page of the Mac.
- After that click on the ‘Finder’ icon from the bottom of the screen in the navigation bar.
- Now click on the search box.
- Type ‘iTunes’ in the search box and click on the entry from the keyboard to find it.
- Then click twice on the ‘iTunes’ application icon to open it.
- It is time to search for a music literary which don’t have any cover artwork. Now it is time to confirm that the artwork does not exist in the internal storage of the computer.
- Now move the mouse pointer on the album that does not have the artwork.
- Click on the right button of the mouse at this moment.
- Then click on the ‘Get Album Artwork’ from the table.
- If ‘Artwork for “name of the file” could not be found.’ The notification shows up on the screen then you can assure that the Artwork files are not available in the storage of your MacBook Now click on the ‘Ok’ option from the notification window to close it.
Downloading the artwork
- Again, back to the desktop of your computers after minimizing the iTunes application and click on the ‘Finder’ application icon.
- Click on the search box of the page and type ‘Safari’ in the search box. Safari is the system web browser of the Mac operating system. Instate of using safari you can use any other browser that makes you comfortable.
- Now click twice on the ‘Safari’ browser icon to open the browser.
- After opening the browser create a new tab.
- Now type the song same in the search bar and press enter to see the search result.
- Click on the ‘Image’ option to see the images related to the search keyword.
- Now choose an image and click on the image to open it.
- Again, click the opened with the right key of your mouse.
- Choose the ‘Save image as…’ option from the popup menu.
- Then a file saving window will appear on the screen. Type the name of the file in Infront of the ‘Save as’ option.
- Now give the tag of the files if you want in the tag box.
- After that choose the location of the file where to be saved.
- Then you have to select the format of the files, choose ‘JPEG image’ as image format.
- Finally, click on the save button to download the image.
Adding the artwork
- After downloading close the Safari Web Browser and return to the desktop page of the MAC.
- Again, choose the iTunes icon from the recent panel to open it.
- Now choose the ‘My Music’ option from the top of the screen.
- Now scroll down to that album that doesn’t have the Album Artwork.
- After that click on the name of that Album.
- Select all the song of that album by clicking on one track by mouse then pressing ‘Command + A’ from the keyboard
- Click the right button on your Mouse.
- Click on the ‘Get Info’ option from the pop-up menu.
- After that click on the ‘Artwork’ option under the album name of the files in the new window.
- Click on the ‘Add Artwork’ button from the left bottom corner of the window.
- Now browse to that image which we downloaded before.
- Select the image and press the ‘Open’ button which is in the bottom right corner of the window.
- Finally, press ‘Ok’, and your picture is added to the Album Artwork.
Summary: Add album art to mp3 Mac
- Download and install MusicBrainz Picard.
- Open MusicBrainz Picard and import the MP3 files that you want to add album art.
- Click the "Cluster" button.
- Click on a song to view its album art.
- Right-click on the album art thumbnail and select "Save cover to file."
- Select the destination for the image file, give it a name and click "Save."
- You do not need any special tools to add album art to mp3 files on your Mac