How can I disable Itunes from getting album covers?

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2008-02-17 04:12am

Anyone know? I can't find it on the preferences, and it's annoying.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-02-17 04:17am

Preferences/general/automatically download album artwork.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2008-02-17 04:26am

The only check box I have there for this is one that reads "Automatically download missing album artwork." There's no general box to uncheck.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-02-17 04:43am

It's on the general tab. I described where it is: in Preferences, under the general tab, called blah blah. Just untick it: mine's unticked and I've never had iTunes get artwork.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2008-02-17 04:47am

Stark wrote:It's on the general tab. I described where it is: in Preferences, under the general tab, called blah blah. Just untick it: mine's unticked and I've never had iTunes get artwork.

I know what you mean, and I don't have that under my general tab. The only box that's similar is that one I mentioned, and it's unchecked anyway.

Are you using the most current version?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-02-17 04:53am

I sure am. Are YOU? I'm on 7.6.0.29, under Windows.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2008-02-17 04:54am

Exactly same.

What the goddamn hell?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-02-17 04:56am

So what does it do? Does it seek art when you add, or play new songs? I've never used iTunes' art finder.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2008-02-17 05:02am

Just starts seeking out the artwork automatically. It's annoying, especially if I add a lot of music at the same time.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2008-02-17 05:19am

I dunno why it won't get a sharper image of this, but, other than the color scheme, is this what you have?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-02-17 05:20am

That's messed up, I can't find any other options regarding artwork. Do you have one of those plugin/widget things? Some applets use iTunes to search for artwork, maybe you've got one of those somewhere?

Aside from your crazy blue colour, mine is the same. I have auto-update ticked, that's the only difference.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2008-02-17 05:36am

Heh heh, you said, "colour."

No widgets as far as I'm aware of. I also just downloaded and reinstalled it. Same thing. Crap.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2008-02-17 04:09pm

Do you have an account with the Music Store? When I thought of using that option, it asked me to set up an account first.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2008-02-17 06:27pm

Phantasee wrote:Do you have an account with the Music Store? When I thought of using that option, it asked me to set up an account first.

I do. Also, I just looked at my laptops, and both of them have this same Itunes setting. I can't seem to disable this. What the crap?

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2008-02-18 11:42pm

Supes, I searched 10 pages deep with Google and only found other people asking the same question without any answers.

An old tried-and-true method of fixing wonky apps on a Mac is to delete the preferences file(s) and let the app rebuild them on the next load. I don't know if this would work for the PC version, but at this point, it might be worth a try. You will, of course, have to reset/reenter all of your preferences afterwards (which probably includes any eq presets you've saved, etc.).

The two places that I know of where iTunes stores preferences are:
C:\Documents and Settings\<Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunesPrefs.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\<Username>\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunesPrefs.xml

EDIT: Another thing to try is to untick the "Automatically retrieve track names from the Internet" box in Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Importing. Probably won't fix your problem, but worth a try as well.