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Album Art Widget. Show off your albums. Rate your music. Find missing artwork. All in a tiny pacakge.

Album Art Widget Screenshot

Introduction

A fast and compact album art and song rating displaying widget. It displays the album cover art of songs playing in iTunes. It can automatically fetch album art from internet sources and save them to iTunes. Additionally, you can jump easily to the iTunes Music Store page of the current playing song or artist, rate your songs with a single click and pause/skip/play songs without opening the iTunes window.

Features

  • Display album art from iTunes.
  • Display and rate songs (and also unrate!)
  • Display the same tracks of the playing album.
  • Optionally fetch album art from Amazon, Google and YesAsia.
  • Save fetched artwork to iTunes directly.
  • Customisable interface.
  • Control iTunes via keyboard shortcuts (space = pause/play, '<' = previous, '>' = next)
  • Jump to iTunes Music Store to find the playing song.

Latest Version (2.9.2)

  • Fixed Amazon album art fetching.
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Joseph Cheung says
50
it can't show albums when I am using Itunes 7.7
  • 1 week, 5 days ago (27/07/2008)
josephGA says
49
It's just what I needed it. It's pretty cool.
  • 3 weeks, 5 days ago (13/07/2008)
Dana says
48
i want a quick way to download album rt on windows... is there one?
  • 2 months, 1 week ago (31/05/2008)
Dana says
47
grrr i have windows
  • 2 months, 1 week ago (31/05/2008)
Matt says
46
How do you unrate song once you selected it? Want let me take away the first star.
  • 2 months, 1 week ago (29/05/2008)
Matt says
45
When I save artwork to iTunes where is the artwork saved to if you want to edit it?
  • 2 months, 1 week ago (29/05/2008)
Marie says
44
The 'show album tracks' feature doesn't seem to be working - any ideas?
  • 2 months, 1 week ago (28/05/2008)
Hans says
43
Figured it out myself, it was a problem of permissions, as I imported my library from a FreeBSD station (a chmod did the trick, and don't forget to restart iTunes after that)

all fine now, thanks for the widget! (would be great if it would add artwork automatically to all songs w/o artwork)
  • 2 months, 1 week ago (27/05/2008)
Hans says
42
HI- the widget is great, I just have one problem: most art is correct, but if I use the "Save Artwork to iTunes" function, I do not see the cover in CoverFlow. any pointers? thanks!
  • 2 months, 1 week ago (27/05/2008)
Blafusel says
41
Elegant! I love it. I wish it had Next/Previous/Pause buttons - then it would be perfect! One tool for all!
  • 2 months, 2 weeks ago (26/05/2008)
Brona says
40
Really love your Widget. Elegant and functional. AlbumArt and Harmonic is the best widget duo ever. I do have one request. An option for automatic import of artwork into iTunes, without user input.
  • 2 months, 3 weeks ago (14/05/2008)
Rab says
39
Another issue, because of the lack of instructions I've just applied one piece of cover art (Santana-Best Of)to 6 other CD's because they are all called "Best of" and it seems you cannot undo this once it is applied. To me this is a serious issue as now I have a whole bunch of mislabelled CD's and I can't even fix the problem. About time for an update?
  • 3 months ago (10/05/2008)
Rab says
38
Pretty decent widget, but why don't you have it search by album title so it doesn't produce so many bad hits? It turns up a lot of false or no hits. Eric Clapton 24 Nights= no hits
  • 3 months ago (10/05/2008)
mk says
37
the only draw back to this download is i can't change the album artwork I already have :(
  • 3 months, 1 week ago (02/05/2008)
sq says
36
IF U WANT UPLOAD ARTWORK TO UR IPOD TOUCH JUST ADD THOSE SONGS TO REALPLAYER LIBRARY THEN RIGHT CLICK ON THE SONG IN THE LIBRARY CLICK ON EDIT CLIP INFO U WILL SEE PICTURE THERE WILL BE A BROWSE OPTION CLOICK ON THAT SELECT THE ARTWORK AND EUREKA!!!!
  • 3 months, 2 weeks ago (23/04/2008)
RK says
35
I am one of the masses it appears, downloaded the doofer but what is a boy to do next i ask? Hello, is there anybody in here? MY GOD, it's a blinding white light, it's coming straight towards me...oh my....
  • 4 months, 3 weeks ago (20/03/2008)
Dallas says
34
I can't get mine to add artwork to my ipod touch. Why?
  • 4 months, 3 weeks ago (20/03/2008)
Gibster says
33
REALLY kewl widget. uestion: How do you update artwork ALREADY in Itunes?
  • 4 months, 4 weeks ago (12/03/2008)
Sarah says
32
i've downloaded it and i have no idea what to do from here, is it true this only works for Macs?
  • 5 months, 1 week ago (26/02/2008)
miha says
31
lol

Requires :
Mac OS X 10.4
iTunes 4.7+
  • 5 months, 2 weeks ago (25/02/2008)
b says
30
Just realised it doesn't work with Windows.
Or does it ?
  • 5 months, 2 weeks ago (25/02/2008)
b says
29
I've downloaded it .
So what next ??
  • 5 months, 2 weeks ago (25/02/2008)
Michael Roberts says
28
This is a fantastic tool, with an enormous range of classical album artwork as well as popular. Although I have not been able to fine everything, it is fun to use. The option of going to Amazon is a nice alternative for those long-ago, deleted classical albums. Congratulations.
  • 5 months, 3 weeks ago (19/02/2008)
t says
27
dont know how it works downloaded it what happens next
  • 5 months, 3 weeks ago (17/02/2008)
Marc says
26
Great Widget!
I'd like too an "add album art to entire library in one go" option!
Thanks!
  • 5 months, 4 weeks ago (12/02/2008)
5000ED says
25
Best itunes ablum art grabber there is, hands down. Works great. I am on Leopard.
My only wish is that it applied missing artwork automatically, having to do it manually is a little bit of a pain, but still the best free option out there. XOXOXOXO
  • 5 months, 4 weeks ago (11/02/2008)
Neil says
24
fuck, this looks cool, problem is, I don't have a mac.
  • 6 months ago (10/02/2008)
chris says
23
anyway to automatically apply album art? doing it manually is cumbersome. thanks for this software!
  • 6 months ago (07/02/2008)
chris whear says
22
still won't work for me with Leopard :-(
  • 6 months, 1 week ago (29/01/2008)
Greatful user says
21
This widget works really well. It is correct about 75% of the time. If you are looking for a single artists album artwork it is fantastic.

The only hang up is a compilation disk. The widget needs a little work in that department. Pretty much all compilation disks I have I needed to add the artwork manually. Not really a big deal, but that is one of the only places that it needs improvement on. It seems to look by artist on a compilation instead of album only. It would be nice to select an option for compilation or something like that.

Overall a great tool to have it has really helped me fill in the gaps that the itunes store couldn't find. Keep up the great work.


  • 6 months, 2 weeks ago (26/01/2008)
Ian says
20
Best. Widget. Ever. Fantastic work! So useful (and no need for an iTunes store account - great). I'm using it with OS X 10.5.1 and iTunes 7.5(19). My collection suddenly looks a whole lot more interesting. Found it at the Apple site in the top 50 widgets (version 2.12, just FYI).
  • 6 months, 2 weeks ago (24/01/2008)
Reg says
19
I downloaded the widget easily and when I play a song but when I try to add the artwork to my iTunes, it doesn't seem to want to. I'm using a MacMini by the way.
  • 7 months ago (11/01/2008)
Scarabeus says
18
Great widget!
Just had to learn, how to use it: play a song, and then the widget tries to get the cover. Is there a way to get it for non-playing songs?
Strange: the question for updating a huge number of songs (190, 242,..), while there are only a few (16, 18,..)

  • 7 months, 3 weeks ago (20/12/2007)
Graham Foxcroft says
17
Why does the widget frequently tell me there are many more songs in an album - sometimes hundreds! - than I know to be the case?
  • 8 months, 1 week ago (29/11/2007)
Chris Whear says
16
tried David Normans suggestion and reloaded album art widget and still no joy :-(
  • 8 months, 1 week ago (29/11/2007)
andreas says
15
nice widget! would be great to get artwork for individual chapters in e.g. a podcast
  • 8 months, 2 weeks ago (24/11/2007)
Remedial says
14
The show album tracks feature doesn't appear to be working. I'm using 10.4.10. Other than that, works fine. Only other feature that would be a great addition would be a choice between the various pics that may be available on amazon, similar to Amazon Album Art widget.
  • 9 months ago (07/11/2007)
Alastair Tse says
13
@John: It is useless to you because it is only for Macs.
  • 9 months ago (07/11/2007)
John McGibbon says
12
This is useless
  • 9 months ago (07/11/2007)
David Norman says
11
Noted Chris Whear's comments re Leopard. Loaded widget after loading Leopard - widget works fine so may like to download again.
  • 9 months, 1 week ago (01/11/2007)
Chris Whear says
10
Hi Alastair, this widget has always worked well for me, thanks. However have just upgraded to Leopard and it seems to have stopped working. Does nothing when playing a track except diplay the trac/artist name :(
  • 9 months, 2 weeks ago (28/10/2007)
Jared says
9
Im sure this is requested a lot and might possibly be in the works already, but I would love it if the album art was automatically saved to the songs when its found.
  • 9 months, 3 weeks ago (22/10/2007)
per says
8
Can i ask you to make a Albumart screensaver? one that just displays the currenty played song from itunes, and its albumart?
  • 10 months, 1 week ago (04/10/2007)
Martijn says
7
Hey, im from the netherlands and a lot of dutch albums cant be find on the .com sites. could u include amazon.nl, or mayb Bol.com?
anyway thanks alot for this great widget :)
  • 10 months, 1 week ago (01/10/2007)
Unhappy says
6
I have the same artwork problem that Jono has - tried what Tse said and everything else I could think of and the artwork is still there. Does anyone have a real fix to this problem? I am so sorry I put this on my Mac!
  • 10 months, 2 weeks ago (29/09/2007)
mrdoll says
5
with the last itunes (7.4.1) if you vote the album and not the tracks, the widget shows that vote for every single track.
update needed : ).
thank you so much.
  • 10 months, 3 weeks ago (21/09/2007)
HOODSTAR says
4
..
  • 11 months ago (13/09/2007)
Alastair Tse says
3
To remove artwork from any song in iTunes, just:

1. Select all the songs you need to remove art work on
2. Press Cmd+I
3. Select the tick box for artwork
4. Press OK


  • 11 months ago (11/09/2007)
Jono says
2
And what's stranger, is that even when I pull the right artwork from on-line, and drag it to the small box on the lower left corner of itunes and it saves there, the coverflow album is still wrong. any ideas? thanks again. jonomon@aol.com
  • 11 months ago (11/09/2007)
Jono says
1
Like Paulie - This seems to often put on the wrong artwork. How do I remove it? The other art widget I have is much more accomodating - gives choices and you can replace stuff. Please advise. jonomon@aol.com
  • 11 months ago (11/09/2007)
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