(This review is based on the full version)

First of all, I'm impressed with what this program can do, and even though it's not perfect, I feel it is well worth the shareware fee. Registration is via instant eSellerate, so it is painless and quick.

The app can search many different sources for artwork, and much like 'Pear Lyrics' (a great app that searches for song lyrics) you can leave it running in the background while you are playing your songs. It will then search for, and insert, album cover art. You can switch between sources it searches manually (it can only access one at a time), but not have it search multiple sources in case it doesn't find something at the first. For example, I searched for Marius Müller Westernhagen's Live album. The app did not find it at amazon.com, but after I manually switched to amazon.de it found the album and it's artwork.

When linked to iTunes, inserting the artwork is automatic, but indeed takes a lot time. The whole application behaves sluggish(ly) on my Mac mini (dual core), but I can live with that (it's not as if I'm in a rush when listening to music in the background).

The app also provides a 'Fill Library' function that can scan both your library and playlists, and then insert artwork when not already present. Even though it is slow, it is much better than iTune's own function simply because it scans a much larger database. As additional feature (one I'm not really using), the app can link to the artist's bio, catalog etc.

The interface is indeed ugly, cryptic, and *very* reminiscent of windows ports. There are lots of odd functionality differences, and things that work slightly different than you might expect. This is only of consequence if you need to manually import some artwork because the app didn't find it by itself. In that case, you'll find that the interface needs a lot of work. Drag and drop doesn't work because ACF's interface locks up while iTune's ID Tag editor is open. You need to copy/paste - doable, but annoying. When working with the artist's catalog (a nice feature when the auto-search misses an album because of a mis-spelling), you can't - for reasons only known to the author) select and copy an album's artwork from the catalog. Again, drag and drop won't work when iTune's tag editor is open.

Another annoying problem is that once you begin to search manually, the app loses it's automatic link ti iTunes, and may, or may not re-establish it.

Documentation is present, but leaves out important information. I still do not know when and how the app saves to it's own data file, and when it saves to ID tags. Somehow I'm glad to report I managed to turn auto-save to the song file's ID tags on, but don't ask me how.

I recommend you at least download the app, and give it a try.