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Brief Introduction:
iTunes 7’s Cover Flow makes low resolution, older album cover art stick out like a sore thumb. iTunes won’t search for high res artwork if the track already has artwork. SO… One needs to be able to sort out the albums with low res art and strip them in order to make their library look shiny in Cover Flow. This script finds tracks with low resolution art. You can then use a script like this one to strip the artwork, and then use the built in iTunes tool to search the iTunes store for better art.

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Last Updated: 01/06/2007

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Install:

1. Place “Find Low Res Art” in your iTunes script directory, usually ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts (where ~/ denotes your user’s ‘home’ or root directory)
2. Restart iTunes

Use:

1. Select the songs you want to scan for low resolution artwork.
2. Select “Find Low Res Art” from your scripts menu
3. Follow the Prompts
4. Sit back and relax. Scanning 6,000 songs on an Intel mac takes about 12 min using the script’s “fast” mode.

Background:
With the release of iTunes 7 we all got a nifty new music browsing shiny: Cover Flow. We can now flip through our music just as we would flip through CDs, complete with spiffy visual fade and perspective effects.

I, and (based on the number of album-art-fetching scripts available) many others have been obsessing over matching up songs with album art since the release of the iPod Photo a few years back. So the concept of viewing our album art within iTunes with shiny animation - Darned Cool. Thanks Apple.

Only one problem. Upon install of iTunes 7, I realized that my album art was Ugly. Hideous. Uncouth and Vulger. Well, maybe not all That bad… but it was still painfully obvious that 150×150 resolution art wasn’t making the grade in Cover Flow.

iTunes ever so kindly attempts to fetch Purdy art for us, BUT only when the track has NO art to begin with. And beyond manual sort and removal, there’s no way to filter or strip out the smallish art. So back in September of 2006, I created an AppleScript to do the filtering - the script looks at the artwork and moves the track to a “low res” playlist if it has low res artwork. Other people have already created stripping scripts to remove the artwork, so the next step is obviously to run one of those scripts on the low res playlist. Then let iTunes do its magic.

Took me a while to get around to releasing this… I hope it works for people. Feel free to comment if you have any questions!