iTunes Tools

Find Tracks Without Artwork

Find Tracks without Artwork is a little tool to serve one purpose: Search the iTunes Music Libary for tracks that do not have a cover Artwork, and create a Playlist.

There are 2 functionally identical Versions: Version 1.1 is a JScript running on Windows Scripting Host and Version 2 is a stand-alone Windows Executable. You can choose either version as they do the same thing.

I've tested it with pretty much every iTunes (4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.x) and Windows Version (2000, XP, Vista 32 and 64-Bit) and it should normally work with every upcoming Version, unless Apple fundamentally changes the COM-Interface.

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Find Tracks Without Artwork - Version 1.1
Find Tracks Without Artwork - Version 2.0

iTunes - Find Tracks without Artwork 2.0 Screenshot

Comments (27)

ThomasOctober 4th, 2008 at 20:33

Danke!!!

Genau, das was ich gesucht habe :) )))))

hans walderOctober 24th, 2008 at 19:51

super tool! hat mir viel arbeit erspart. vielen dank!

MarcDecember 1st, 2008 at 21:56

Thanks!

AimeeDecember 13th, 2008 at 20:04

Wow, thanks!! This worked very well, and it was fast.

cainFebruary 1st, 2009 at 19:40

superb!

fast, easy to use, and very very worthwhile tool to have!

VinceApril 15th, 2009 at 23:21

Oh man thank you so much I've been looking for this program for forever!!! perfection.

TerryMay 12th, 2009 at 04:20

Thank you! Where do I donate? Very, very helpful; worth a contribution!

PaulMay 12th, 2009 at 08:03

Hi. Thanks for this. My library is huge and it is a pain that some tracks have no artwork. It's good that it is windows as well becuase most times I track apple script things that, of course, don't work.

KlausJune 14th, 2009 at 08:38

Cooool!!!! Works great and does exactly what it says on the tin. Thanks a lot!

RobJuly 8th, 2009 at 21:48

BRILLIANT.

JoeyAugust 13th, 2009 at 08:18

Genius! Awesome job!

troyAugust 30th, 2009 at 06:55

this would be awesome if I could scan my ipod as opposed to my library

mstumSeptember 2nd, 2009 at 16:43

Yeah, sadly Apple is a bit overprotective when it comes to their iPod/iPhone and data access to it.

iamtotusSeptember 20th, 2009 at 21:57

This thing is awesome. It does exactly what it says, perfectly. I've been looking for something like this forever.

warpyb1September 25th, 2009 at 15:11

smooth!

KennySeptember 28th, 2009 at 18:29

iTunes 9.1 = Interface not supported. Any updates planned?

mstumSeptember 28th, 2009 at 18:50

That's strange, I just tested it with my iTunes 9.0.1.8 and it works fine. Which version do you use? (Help > About iTunes) And which operating system?

SteveOctober 13th, 2009 at 19:14

Another vote for iTunes 9.0.1.8. (on Win Xp Pro)

Many thanks Michael. Took less than two minutes to scan over 8000 tracks and produces a nice playlist which appeared immediately in iTunes.

JohnOctober 24th, 2009 at 08:42

Many thanks. Does exactly what it says and in a very elegant manner. Perfect!

PrimajinNovember 14th, 2009 at 21:30

Works great! (Windows 7 RC 1 64bit iTunes 9)

VaughnNovember 28th, 2009 at 12:09

this does half my job
lol
still need one to find the artwork and import it

RyanJanuary 9th, 2010 at 09:22

300 to go!

Very useful tool. This is something worth paying for.

KevinJanuary 29th, 2010 at 21:10

thanks a lot -- this is really cool! i don't know how much harder it would be to program, but it would be REALLY nice if it created a smart playlist so that it automatically updates itself. other than that, though, great job!

Jeff BowersJanuary 30th, 2010 at 00:39

Thanks a lot for this wonderful little program. I very useful tool to have. My I Tunes Library is over 20,000 songs, and I Tunes seems to lose album art a lot. It is easy enough to find sources for art, finding which tracks and albums have missing art is the hard part. This little jewel scanned my library in about 3 or 4 minutes. Bravo.

mstumJanuary 30th, 2010 at 01:55

Kevin: If iTunes could do that in a Smart Playlist, there wouldn't be any need for this program :) I see no good way to keep this up-to-date automatically without something heavy like a service that runs all the time.

Glad you have use for it :)

DamienMarch 8th, 2010 at 02:17

For some reason this app scans my collection and tells me I have 130 songs without artwork, but does not tell me WHICH songs have no artwork....

DamienMarch 8th, 2010 at 02:18

Ah, it lists it IN itunes... ok, silly me.

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