I wanted to use my new desktop PC to sync against my iPhone, and to do that I had to first move my music library over from my beat-up laptop. Physical file moves were easy, so was the metadata embedded in the songs themselves. iTunes ratings, on the other hand, was not so straight forward. Luckily I found a nice little tool called MusicBridge that does just that. It effortlessly moved my WMP ratings, which were embedded in the songs, into iTunes.

I should have stopped there. Unfortunately I got carried away and tried to use MusicBridge to move album arts as well. It might have been a bug, it might have been a feature, but many of my songs ended up with one totally unrelated picture as their album art. My guess was that the picture originated from an album art .jpg file, but I couldn’t locate such a file in the directories. I now have to manually remove that ugly picture from affected songs, twice. Once for iTunes, and once more for WMP.

And to add insult to injury, I don’t think I needed to perform an album art move in the first place!