How to Add Album Art to MP3 on Mac

Music has become a part of our life. For crazy music lovers, you may have collected more than thousands of songs in the computer. But it becomes a hassle when you try to sort them out or find one certain song quickly. What may help in such circumstances? Yes, album artwork will surely give your eyes some refreshment and assist in locating songs easily. But album arts are always missing if the MP3 files are recorded online or ripped from videos or CD. So you will need a good tag editor to help fill songs with artworks. Wondershare TidyMyMusic for Mac is an expert in this field. It can add album art to all MP3 files with just a few clicks. No need to add album art to mp3 one by one, but put all MP3 files in the program to identify cover artwork in batch. Sounds great, isn’t it?

First download this Mac program to install. Then open it to get ready and you will find a neatly designed interface for easy use. Then we will talk about how to add artwork to MP3 on Mac as below.

1 Import music files to TidyMyMusic

When you open the program, it will begin to add all the music on iTunes to the Tidy iTunes tab, which means you don’t need to import iTunes playlists manually.

To add MP3 files from your local folder, you should go to the Tidy Music tab where you can click the Open File button or just drag-n-drop file or folder to import all MP3 files.

2 Add album artwork to MP3

Select a song in one of the tabs of Tidy iTunes or Tidy Music, click Identify to start adding artwork to MP3. By the way, during the process, ID3 information and lyrics can also be identified.

Notes: 1,You can select several songs and click the Identify Selected button in the same position with Identify to start the process.
2, If you click the Scan button on the top and keep the two checkbox selected, the program can search for unidentified songs and start identifying. Also it will detect all the duplicated songs. You may have to wait for some time if your music library is too big.

After the information is identified, click Apply to add new information to the MP3 file.

3 Customize the music information

If you are not satisfied with the information detected automatically, just click the “pen-in-book” icon and add the local image or type in any information as you like.

After all these steps, you can get music with full information including album artworks, which will make it convenient to manage all MP3 files. Give it a go and you may find more fancy features.

Tip: What is album art?

Album art, also named album cover artwork, album artwork or just artwork, is an image file added to music and technically a part of ID3 tag when it revolves to the second version. It varies in types with a full list of 21. Check here to see more details.