ITunes match wont show artwork, without downloading a song?

I did upload/match my music collection to itunes match on one PC and all worked fine and it shows the embedded artworks of the local files. The problem is that if i turn on itunes match on a remote machine, the songs play fine from the cloud, BUT all of the artwork/covers are missing? I tried the "automatically download artwork option" but nothing changes. I also tried "updating itunes match" and again no artwork.
The only way i cold fix this is to manually download a single track of a each album? Is this the expected behaviour?
Does this mean apply's iCloud/match service is not able to automatically pull the embedded album artwork from icloud files, without having a local physical copy once? I used googles music service before and there cloud player never had this problem at all.
So whats going on, why is artwork handling in itunes match so finicky and broken?
thx
Andy

It gets even more stupid.
After downloading the first track of each album, the album artwork in iTunes shows up, but only for files that where originally "uploaded" and not "matched". The matched files do not have any artwork, since itunes recognizes them not by album. if i now try to "download artwork" it uses the album to whatever it was matched. So if the same song is only matched to s single in the iTunes store it will use this artwork, regardless of the org. files having correct embedded artwork for the album.
So what you have to-do is to either micro manage your missing artworks on a device basis or have a single track not "matched" to itunes than can be used as cover resource on all devices.
This system is so buggy and flawed that its beyond believe. All iTunes would have to actually do is to get the embedded "correct" artwork of a album from a track, than upload and store this information in iClound and sync this artwork database across all devices.
What a waste of time so far using iCloud and simply trying to get working artworks for perfectly tagged mp3 files.

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