Export and import album covers in iTunes

Export Artwork is a well known and appreciated tool to export cover art from iTunes and import them from Amazon. The program lets you specify parameters like whether setting album cover for one track or a whole album. All you have to do is select the tracks in iTunes that you want to process and Export Artwork will work automatically. You can set 3 different image formats (jpeg, png or tiff) and although slightly limited, Export Artwork gives you a choice of four name formats to choose from.

Similarly the export features are pretty advanced. You can limit the size of album covers that you want to fetch and choose to import artwork for all albums or only those that have no cover. Export Artwork will automatically embed the artwork to the track’s ID3 tag. Quick and highly flexible, Export Artwork is an essential tool for any serious iTunes library owner.

Export Artwork is a shareware AppleScript Studio application for use with iTunes on Mac OS X. Its main function is to extract the artwork from the selected track’s ID3 tag and copy it to an image file in a chosen location. The application is fully automated and can process an entire playlist containing all your tracks.

Export Artwork is also a fully fledged artwork manager as it can fetch album covers over the Internet and embed artwork to the ID3 tag, making it a great utility to help you update your cover collection as your music library grows.

If you’re looking for a way to compile all your album covers for a database or picture gallery, here is a solution to Export Artwork back into it’s own image file. If you have already filled your library’s worth of mp3 / m4a (AAC) files with artwork, but want to resize or remove it from the ID3 tag to keep the file size down, and still keep all those album covers, Export Artwork is the perfect tool.