Forum: MAC Version Technical Support - Topic: How can i get album art to appear better

its showing some but not many of my cd artwork etc, and when i resize it slightly larger it looks crap, any tips.

Use larger pixel or good resolution pics that u may find. If the pixel of the selected image is small n u tried to resize it to larger, it will not werk as it been stretch and as known anything u take from web is only 72dpi. So the good way is to find a pics that is larger so when u resized it to small, the image will not look blurry or better yet scan it;)

why can't it just take it from i tunes.
and sorry for stupid question but how if i find a pic to i add it into virtual dj?

My bad, as earlier i said that u could scan it..sorry. I only use this feature when it was first implemented n i know that u could take the pics from web. Did not use the album art now. N ur question is not stupid either;)

U could find a better resolution pic around the web n attached it. In VDJ, go to the selected track, click to file info, see the cover box, click on it n ur mac should be online for it to automatically search for a pic. then click on any of the options to attached it to the track, and u're done;)

Regards.

thanx that has helped a little but to do for every individual track is gonna be a right pain, and the option to get from local itunes doesn't do anything???

any more help with this?
it seems shit that a free program like itunes has incredible looking (an automatic album art) even a seperate pop up box for it too, yet i have paid about £160 for virtual DJ where it just looks like fuzzy crap.

One thing you could do is make sure that your files have artist and song titles typed appropriately (e.g. Bob Sinclair, not bOb SyncLairR). Odd formatting often occurs with downloaded files, so editing the ID3 and file names could help you get more, possibly better results (you may have already done this, though.).

Keep in mind that the goal of VDJ is not to display album artwork, but to focus on loading, playing, and scratching music and video files as quickly as possible. Higher quality images contain more pixel data, and thus, when loaded, would consume more of your CPU and RAM resources. I would assume that album artwork was not a main goal of the VDJ's original objective. Also, do you select songs via the album artwork? If so, you may want to consider sorting the songs by BPM and using the text-based part of the interface.

Good luck,
J

I personally find cover flow more of a novelty. If you have 12 tracks all from the same album you're more or less stuck with the same image for every song. It's neat and all to have the cover flow but I find it just slows down the searching process. I know a lot of DJ's often remember tracks more easily with the visual of an album cover (especially the old school vinyl guys) but I think the best way is to train your brain to think of songs by title rather than visually, I think you'll find it better in the long run.

yeah i agree its not exactly main priority etc, no i don't want it for search at all, but whatever i am playing its just nice to see the album artwork up there somewhere, i remmber some cheap freebie mac software had the album art automatically appear over the spinning vinyl as the track played, or a seperate box somewhere that just showed the artwork for whatever track is playing (might be nice to sometimes outpout that to screen in club too)