ZumoCast Tip of the Week: Album Art
Anyone who has ever organized all their music can tell you what a tedious task it can be. They can also tell you that the finishing touch to that task is making sure you have the album artwork for each song. It makes the browsing experience just that much more complete. When you go to stream music from ZumoCast you'll notice that the album art for some songs show up in the Music Tab, while it doesn't for others. But you could've sworn all your music had album art before. The explanation for this is quite simple. The songs whose art you see appear have the pictures embedded in the file. There are a multitude of free programs out there that can do this for you. But it's REALLY tedious. You need to go out and find the art yourself and then manually add them to the songs. On the plus side, it becomes part of the file and travels with it wherever it goes. iTunes has tried to make this process easier by searching for the album artwork and adding it automatically to each song. However iTunes does not embed that data into the song file. Instead, it uses a database to keep track of what art points to which song. So the tip of the week is to try checking the "Grab artwork from iTunes" box. Here's how:
1. Right click on the ZumoCast icon in the task tray.
2. Select Preferences.
3. Go to the Settings tab on the right.
4. Make sure "Grab artwork from iTunes" is checked.
5. Check out your pretty album art in the ZumoCast Music tab on your iDevice.
Important note: Mac users, you are off the hook. This applies only to PC users.

