No cover art when importing CD to music library...

I travel alot and have a vast CD colllection. That's why I bought my iPod. It's a convenient way to take my music with me on planes, trains, and where ever. While I am very happy with that decision, one of my disappointments that when iTunes downloads CD information from the internet, it does not download cover art.
I own the CDs and use the music for personal use, so I don't see this as a copyright issue. If I rip the same CD using Widows Media Center, or almost any other software, the downloaded information includes the album cover. Why the hestitency with Apple's iTunes? All I want to see is a picture of the album cover next to the name of the tune that is playing.

Hello Anna,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
There could a couple of different things happening here. First of all, are you having iTunes automatically retrieve album information from its database and filling in these details automatically, or are you entering the album information in by hand?
If you are entering this information in by hand make sure the Album name is the same throughout each track. To make sure, highlight all the tracks in the album at once by holding down the CTRL key. Then right->click on them and choose "Get Info" from the menu. From there, head over to the Info tab and re-enter the album name.
If that is not the case, is this album a compilation, meaning that it has tracks with various other artists as well? If so, its probably marked as part of a compilation in iTunes and you can remove the tick mark next to this option from the Info tab as well.
For now we'll start there.
Hope this helps.
B-rock

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