If you live in any country where Apple has an iTunes music store, this article will be of no use to you.

In South Africa, however, we don't yet have access to an iTunes music store. Which means that when you rip a CD in iTunes to transfer the tracks to your iPod, you can't automatically download album art to go with it (you need an iTunes music store account for this piece of wizardry).

The thing is, the iPod is designed in such a way that having album art just makes things look nicer. You can still listen to the music - which is obviously the big thing - but it would be rather nice to make it look pretty too, won't it?

Yes, we have access to the App Store, but this is apparently not enough to activate iTunes' automatic album art download function, which is rather silly seeing as iTunes does automatically download album info when you insert a CD.

So what do you do?

Fortunately there is a manual way in iTunes too:

1. Firstly, rip the CD to your hard drive using iTunes if you haven't yet done so.
2. Next, find a jpg file of the album cover. The easiest way is to simply search for the album name in Google Image Search. Try and find a high quality image that is a perfect square.
3. Save this file to your hard drive. I suggest you save it to the album folder where the music files are stored. This way, Windows will automatically match that album cover to the folder so that when you browse your music folders in Windows Explorer in thumbnail view, the folder icons will show the album art too.
4. In the music list view of iTunes, highlight the songs of a particular album.
5. Right-click with your mouse and click on "Get info". A window pops up.
6. Double-click on the white block underneath the title "Artwork". A browse window pops up.
7. Browse to the folder with the saved album picture, select it, and click on "Open".
8. The previous blank, white block will now show the album picture.
9. Click "OK".

If you previously copied an album to your iPod without album art, remove it from your iPod first and then transfer it again to have the album art show up in your iPod.

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