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I admit it – I am one of those people who avoid the mouse.  I guess a couple of bouts of tendonitis has made me a bit gun shy of using the mouse.  Plus I actually find using the keyboard faster than clicking away on the screen.  That being said, if there is an equivalent keyboard command for an action, that is what I use. I recently discovered that you can navigate the Get Info box in iTunes with your keyboard.

Select the song whose information you want to see and press the Command + I keystroke combination to display the Get Info box. To switch between the different tabs of the info box, press the Command key and the number of the tab’s position in the list. For instance, Command + 1 displays the Summary tab, Command + 2 the Info tab, Command + 3 the Video tab, Command + 4 the Sorting tab, Command + 5 the Options tab, Command + 6 the Lyrics tab and Command + 7 the Artwork tab.

To move to the next song in the iTunes list from within the Get Info window, press the Command + right-arrow key. Command + the left arrow key moves you to the previous song in the list.

This shortcut also works in the iTunes preferences pane (iTunes > Preferences from the menu).

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In the previous post, we looked at how to insert Album Artwork for CD’s that you import into iTunes. But let’s face it – the iTunes Store does not have every album and every song!  So what this means is that there may be times when the iTunes store cannot find Artwork for your album – especially if the album is an older or obscure one. If this is the case, you will need to add your own Artwork.

To add Missing Artwork in iTunes:

1. If the iTunes store cannot find Artwork for our CD, navigate to Google’s Web site with your Web Browser.
2. Click “Images” on the Google Web page.In the Search box, type in the name for of your CD (i.e. “Awake CD”).
3. When you find the desired CD cover (Album Artwork), download it to your computer.
4. Copy the file to your iTunes > Album Artwork > Download folder.In iTunes, select all of the songs for the album for which you want to add artwork.
5. Select File > Get Info from the menu.
6. Double-click the white Artwork box.
   
7. Navigate to the folder where the downloaded Artwork file is located (the picture that you downloaded)
8. Click the file and then click Open.

Now if you are only adding artwork for one song, the procedure is a little bit different:

To add Missing Artwork in iTunes for an Individual Song:

1. In iTunes, select the song for which you want to add artwork.
2. Select File > Get Info from the menu.
3. Click the Artwork tab on top of the window.
   
4. Click the Add button.
   
5. Navigate to the folder where the downloaded Artwork file is located (the picture that you downloaded)
6. Click the file and then click Open.

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When you purchase an album from the iTunes store, the album artwork is included.  However, if you import some of your own CD’s into iTunes, the artwork will not automatically display – you will have to add it manually. In order to do this, an Internet Connection is required.

To add artwork manually:

1. Select all of the songs in the album. To select more than one song, select the first song in the list, hold down the Shift key and then click the last song in the list

2.  Select Advanced on the menu and then click “Get Album Artwork”

3.  When the message appears asking you if you are sure that you want to get album artwork, click the “Get Album Artwork” button.

4.  To display the album artwork column, change the view to either Album List, Grid or Cover Flow by clicking the appropriate view button on top of the iTunes window.

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