I have been thinking that the aging iPod Touch might still a better bet than this up-to-the-minute NW-A45 Walkman, though finding that ITunes no longer works on it, meaning that the music it holds can never be updated, has modified my view a bit. It may help to forestall some of the questions we might get, though I fear we are being optimistic that anyone, from Sony or elsewhere, might even ask any.
So my initial posting above is a clear statement of the issue, which I wanted to stand alone from other threads, and this subsequent posting is some of the untidy gubbins that I have worked through on this issue. So how do I load the artwork she is expecting, preferably seamlessly as I load the albums? I would have expected that Content Transfer, which knows about albums, would have associated the album artwork, where present, with each track on that album, but no, it doesn’t seem to do that.
No trouble there, I used iExplorer to transfer the files from the iPod into my iTunes account on my iMac, updated as much artwork as I could within iTunes, and then used Content Transfer to copy the songs across.īecause it picked up the iExplorer input folder as well as the iTunes one, it moved twice as many items as there were songs in iTunes, but it all came across without duplications, and everything we have tried plays OK.īut she wants to know where the artwork has gone to? Every music item has a blank screen, except for the three that the Walkman came preloaded with.Īll the advice I can find on the web seems to refer to options my iTunes doesn’t have - like associating artwork with individual songs instead of albums - or software the Mac hasn’t got. My wife has a new NW-A45 that I am tasked with setting up for her, initially from her very old iPod.