Good trick for iPod owners, I guess, but I have to say that artwork makes Front Row much more fun to use!

I'd be hesitant to wipe it all out my artwork just to fit a few more songs on my iPod when I knew it would be gone forever. There's no way to undo this without fixing each album or song one by one!

I've had applescripts written by others that automatically grab the artwork from amazon, if it's missing from my hard drive...

not really that hard to get all your artwork back...

Half of the time those scripts grab artwork from Amazon or Google. The images are often incorrect and are very poor quality. Sometimes you even get the starbursts that say 30% off. Apple artwork isn't much better. The labels should be required to supply a decent cover image at a slightly higher resolution -- not something overly jpeged. Space is inexpensive and I think covers are a great addition!

Can't you just go to Preferences/iPod/Music and uncheck "Display album artwork on your iPod"? Save space on the pod, keep art on Mac.

How can we romve album art from Window's Media Player 10?? Please HELP ME!!!
thanks!

Probably this is the worst place ever to promote Clutter (the original article was about *removing* artwork) but you should give it a try. A wonderful app. I just love it!

taking off the album art is much better. it frees up a lot more space and i can put way more music on than i could before!

Great tip, thanks for the info.
Just wondering why Apple did not put this info in the iTunes help file or anywhere in their support database. Could not find it, until now, thanks again.

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taking off the album art is much better. it frees up a lot more space and i can put way more music on than i could before!

yes but it looks alot better on a video ipod, i only have 100gb of hdd space and 80gb for my music,documents etc. would rather have a nice looking ipod screen with the album art then the boring one with just the text. that just my opinion tho.

thanks for posting this. apple is not so cool for not including this in their help files. guess one is just supposed to *know* these things? thanks again!

This isn't working for me!
I just tried twice, and it seemed to be working, but no luck.

this isnt working for me. i want to delete artwork for videos and it wont let me after i tried the way you told me too. Help.

They probably want us to run out of space and need more expensive ipods with more memory. I will delete all of the artwork where I don't have the whole album, I don't need the artwork for every single random song that's on my ipod. it just takes space with no purpose

I have a Classic 160GB that I only use for music. A cover may take 12kB. I prefer the artwork rather than the nondescript screen. But, thanks for the tips because I made mistakes initially and did not know how to delete them. iTunes still has some quirks, especially when trying to simultaneously delete a cover from all the tracks in an album. It is a shame that Apple does not offer detailed instructions for many of these features, which are not necessarily intuitive.