Liven up you PJ iTunes bootlegs

RWChicago
RWChicago Posts: 11
edited June 2008 in The Porch
If you use Itunes and it gets on your nerves that for your bootlegs the album cover art either sucks or is non existent I stumbled across a pretty cool way to jazz things up.

Open up iTunes, select all the songs from the bootleg whose artwork you want to change.

Then go to this website http://www.thecolorsblend.com/2003_2.htm and find the artwork for the show in question, they have almost every show's official poster artwork back to 1990.

Go back to iTunes, and with the songs highlighted right click and select "get info" then go to the cover art, and (at least on my Mac) I can just drag the poster from the webpage over to the "get info" box in iTunes and it knows what to do.

If that doesn't work you can still download > save > import but it still shouldn't be too hard.

Now you can actually put your iTunes in cover flow browse mode (to change modes go near the search box, select the icon one that looks like it might be the lost icon for 'stereo sound') and man does it look beautiful. Here's a peek at my results:

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll78/elvisinvegas/CMCapture1-2.jpg

Remember that consecutive shows in the same town often (but not always) have the same poster. . .but who cares, this is still a 100% improvement.
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  • corduroid
    corduroid Posts: 293
    those 91/early 92 posters are sick!

    great share :)
  • on2legs
    on2legs Posts: 16,024
    I've slowly been doing this with my bootlegs... but I didn't know about that website.

    Thanks for the heads up.
    1996: Randall's Island 2  1998: East Rutherford | MSG 1 & 2  2000: Cincinnati | Columbus | Jones Beach 1, 2, & 3 | Boston 1 | Camden 1 & 2 2003: Philadelphia | Uniondale | MSG 1 & 2 | Holmdel  2005: Atlantic City 1  2006: Camden 1 | East Rutherford 1 & 2 2008: Camden 1 & 2 | MSG 1 & 2 (#25) | Newark (EV)  2009: Philadelphia 1, 2 & 4  2010: Newark | MSG 1 & 2  2011: Toronto 1  2013: Wrigley Field | Brooklyn 2 | Philadelphia 1 & 2 | Baltimore  2015: Central Park  2016: Philadelphia 1 & 2 | MSG 1 & 2 | Fenway Park 2 | MSG (TOTD)  2017: Brooklyn (RnR HOF)  2020: MSG | Asbury Park  2021: Asbury Park  2022: MSG | Camden | Nashville  2024: MSG 1 & 2 (#50) | Philadelphia 1 & 2 | Baltimore  2025: Raleigh 2


  • nocode23
    nocode23 Posts: 411
    Thanks for the link!
  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    FREAKING AWESOME !! thanks! fan-freakin-tastic!

    that does look great.

    only problem is that im having to drag it over for every single song, i cant get it to work by selecting all the songs. no biggie, gives me something to do while the gf is watch the Food Network !!! lol :)


    thanks again!
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  • RWChicago
    RWChicago Posts: 11
    So while we're talking about album art, how are your Christmas singles looking? Not so good? Here you go 1991-2005:

    http://fuelfriendsblog.com/listenup/PJ%20Christmas%20Singles/PJ%20Christmas%20Singles.zip

    Oh, by the way, the songs are attached to the album art too :). That girl's whole blog is really good, but I'm going to cut to the chase and say that link is the best thing on it.

    Can you tell I do tech consulting for a living? Hopefully this isn't a repost, I'm sort of new to the pit (but an old school 10-clubber).

    Remember, if you're selling for current tour I'm all ears, private message me. I thought I'd be out of the country when the tix went out sale, turns out I'm here and ticketless . . .and sad. . .arg. . .I'm potential for any show and even driving there from Chicago.

    More about me (including links to my flickr, twitter, youtube, facebook, etc.) are all on my blog, http://www.elvis-in-vegas.com. Not a PJ haven - its just to generate buzz for my consulting projects but if you wanted to see who that guy is on the other side that is searching desperately to go to a show, you'll see he's is me and does things like makes cheezy music videos with his dog and Pearl Jam doing Pete Townsend covers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZoS7SvbdLQ.
  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    I've been doing this for my zune for awhile now. but thanx for the site. Im definately adding it to my favorites.
    5/28/06, 6/27/08, 10/28/09, 5/18/10, 5/21/10
    8/7/08, 6/9/09
  • Travelar
    Travelar Posts: 3,444
    Great find and great post! Thanks!
  • cd21miller
    cd21miller Columbia, MO Posts: 302
    nice work on this post...spent part of my afternoon beautifying my inner ipod!
  • flyinwhole313
    flyinwhole313 Posts: 1,651
    On2Legs wrote:
    I've slowly been doing this with my bootlegs... but I didn't know about that website.

    Thanks for the heads up.

    Yeah, That.
    Sweet, thanks for the link!
  • igotid_8
    igotid_8 Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 510
    I did this years ago, and I'm so happy. Each show now has it's own identity. On my ipod, the images are clipped a little bit, but it's a good way to show other people all of the cool posters.

    Can wait for next week and more shows!
    2000 Columbus, Pittsburgh
    2003 Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Columbus
    2004 Toledo
    2005 Hamilton, Pittsburgh
    2006 Cleveland, Auburn Hills, Pittsburgh
    2009 Chicago
    2010 Cleveland
    2013 Wrigley, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 Detroit
    2016 Tampa, Wrigley 1, Wrigley 2
    2018 Wrigley 1, Wrigley 2
    2022 Hamilton
    2023 Chicago 1, Chicago 2, Austin 1, Austin 2
    2024 Las Vegas 1, Las Vegas 2, Wrigley 1, Wrigley 2
    2025 Pittsburgh1, Pittsburgh 2
  • TooMuchBlood
    TooMuchBlood Posts: 312
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    I've been doing this for my zune for awhile now. but thanx for the site. Im definately adding it to my favorites.

    How do you do this? I right-click on the posters and can't copy the images. Can anyone help. I'm using a PC and have a Zune 80.

    Thanks!
  • One Became Five
    One Became Five Posts: 269
    TooMuchBlood wrote:
    How do you do this? I right-click on the posters and can't copy the images. Can anyone help. I'm using a PC and have a Zune 80.

    Thanks!

    I tried that way as well, with no luck.

    Don't right click, just drag it. It will work.
  • on2legs
    on2legs Posts: 16,024
    You can also choose to save the web page as a complete web page file and it will automatically save a jpg of all the posters on the page in a folder on your computer.
    1996: Randall's Island 2  1998: East Rutherford | MSG 1 & 2  2000: Cincinnati | Columbus | Jones Beach 1, 2, & 3 | Boston 1 | Camden 1 & 2 2003: Philadelphia | Uniondale | MSG 1 & 2 | Holmdel  2005: Atlantic City 1  2006: Camden 1 | East Rutherford 1 & 2 2008: Camden 1 & 2 | MSG 1 & 2 (#25) | Newark (EV)  2009: Philadelphia 1, 2 & 4  2010: Newark | MSG 1 & 2  2011: Toronto 1  2013: Wrigley Field | Brooklyn 2 | Philadelphia 1 & 2 | Baltimore  2015: Central Park  2016: Philadelphia 1 & 2 | MSG 1 & 2 | Fenway Park 2 | MSG (TOTD)  2017: Brooklyn (RnR HOF)  2020: MSG | Asbury Park  2021: Asbury Park  2022: MSG | Camden | Nashville  2024: MSG 1 & 2 (#50) | Philadelphia 1 & 2 | Baltimore  2025: Raleigh 2


  • gvn2fly12
    gvn2fly12 Posts: 795
    I have done this, i did not know about the colours blend website so i used the eb website to copy and paste, makes the ipod way cooler i think
    Arms wide open with the sea as my floor.

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