How to View Album Artwork in iTunes

"DREW NOAH: So, now I'm going to show you the different view options you have. And these are all like, right up here, at the top right. And the first one is just the plain, old 'Text View' which I've been using and I like to use. It's got 'Name', 'Time', 'Artists' and all these other information. Also, you can change this. I'll show you how to do that in another clip; just real basic view. The next view is 'By Albums' and you can see, you got just a little, tiny album artwork and then all the songs on that album right next to it and this feels pretty cool. I just don't like it when you've only got--if you got like a random single song from an album. You see all this white space that gets created because there's only one song but it still takes up all the space to show you the artwork even when it's there like that. And the next view is the 'Cover Flow' which is pretty cool. You can just skip around like this, clicking on album covers. And you should be used to this too. If you have a new iPod, they have this feature as well. You can skip albums right here with this little arrows. You can make it bigger and smaller. And then you can see I've always--even if you click up here, it's adjusting down here to where you are in your library and you got this little text view below your cover flow. And right here, you have 'Full Screen'. So, this is cool if you have the album artwork and if you don't, this happens. So, that's kind of annoying. So, to get album artwork, first off, you can go one by one if you want to. I'll show you a better way to do that later but let me just show you while I'm here. I can right click and do 'Get Album Artwork'. And it says, "Are you sure you want to get album artwork?" So, it will look for it. And sometimes, it will find it and sometimes it won't. So, it says, this could not be found. I guess the more rare the CD is, the less likely it's going to be found, the less popular it is. But you can still add the artwork if you want. So, what I'm going to do is this album right here, I'm going to select all those clips, right click it and then you get info. And it says, "Are you sure you want to edit information for multiple items?" and I do. And you can see it's got the artists, the genre but not much else information. And what I want to add is the artwork which is right here. So, I'm going to turn that on and then I've gone--and this is from a Google image search I found--it's pretty small but I found the artwork. So, what I can do is I can just drag it over and drop it and it added the artwork. So, I'll just hit Okay and now, you can see I've got the artwork. There we go. It came out a little weird because this is just some--some person looks like they scanned it online. But that's one way to add artwork that's not--that doesn't come out automatically. The other way would be to use this Advanced option, Get Album Artwork. And I say, just--if you--what you can do is--I'm going to command all and I just selected my whole library and then I would go to Advanced, Get Album Artwork and then I will go through and get everything I can. It's not going to get everything but it will get almost everything that it can. And it should get a lot of stuff especially if you don't have any. You see, I've already gone through and done that. So, the ones I don't have, are the ones I have to manually do on the internet. But the way to set this up permanently to always get our artwork from new items is to go to Preferences and on Mac, it's in the iTunes menu. On PC, it's in the Edit menu on the bottom. And you just want to go to General. And you have this option right here to automatically download missing album artwork. So, I could put that on and it says, "Are you sure you want to do it?" and I'll just hit Okay. So, now, as much as it can, iTunes will automatically download artwork for me. But those are the different views up here and just a little information on how to get album artwork. I think, now with the newest versions of iTunes, they should be set up to automatically get artwork as much as they can. But let's say you turn it on the settings and how you can manually get artwork."