Adding Artwork for Songs in iPod

You might want to associate artwork with a song. For example, if a song doesn’t have album art associated with it, you can add the art yourself. Or, you might want to add the artist’s picture or some other meaningful graphic to the song. You can add one or more pieces of art to songs by using the following steps:

1. Prepare the artwork you are going to associate with a song. You can use graphics in the usual formats, such as JPG, TIFF, GIF, and so on.
2. Select the song with which you want to associate the artwork.
3. Open the Info window and then click the Artwork tab. If the selected song has artwork with it, you will see it in the Artwork pane. You can add multiple images for the same song. You can use the slider under the image box to change the size of the previews you see in the window. Drag the slider to the right to make the image larger or to the left to make it smaller. This doesn’t change the image; instead, it only impacts the size of the image as you currently see it in the Info window. This is especially useful when you associate lots of images with a song because you can see them all at the same time.
4. Click Add. A dialog box that enables you to choose an image will appear.
5. Move to and select the image you want to associate with the song.
6. Click Open (Windows) or Choose (Mac). The image will be added to the window.
7. Continue adding images to the Artwork pane until you have added all the images for a song. The default image for a song is the one on the left of the image box.
8. To change the order of the images, drag them in the image box.
9. Click OK. The window will close and the images will be saved with the song.

Viewing Album Artwork in iPod

To view a song’s artwork, do one of the following:
■ Click the Artwork button located under the Source list. The Artwork pane will appear and display the artwork associated with either the currently playing song or the currently selected song. At the top of the artwork, you will see Selected Song, which indicates you are viewing the artwork associated with the selected song, or Now Playing, which indicates you are viewing artwork associated with the song currently playing.
■ Double-click the artwork to see a larger version in a separate window. The title of the window will be the name of the song the artwork is associated with.
■ To choose between viewing artwork associated with the selected song or the song currently playing, click the text at the top of the Artwork pane. The artwork will change to the other option (for example, if you click Playing, it will become Selected Song), and you will see the artwork for that song.
■ If you choose the Now Playing option, the artwork will change in the Artwork pane as the next song begins playing (unless, of course, the songs use the same artwork).
■ If the song has more than one piece of artwork associated with it, click the arrows that appear at the top of the pane to see each piece of art.

Ratings Songs in the Content Pane

You can also rate songs in the Content pane. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Scroll in the Content pane until you see the My Rating column.
2. Select the song you want to rate. Dots will appear in the My Rating column for that song.
3. Click the dot representing the number of stars you want to give the song. The dots up to and including the one on which you clicked will become stars.