160G Classic and Alpine iD-X001...No album art!

Just purchased the 160G Classic...everything working fine except for one hiccup...when I connect it to my Alpine deck (iDA-X001) the album art does not show. It worked seamlessly with my 80G 5th Gen. iPod, but I could really use the 160 gigs! Is Apple going to release a firmware upgrade to fix this? Although a minor detail, my OCD is coming out! Help! Don't want to take the Classic back!

I have just installed a Alipne iDA-X001 to work with my iPod 160Gb Classic it works fine other than no album art.
My ipod is a Mac OS X formatted iPod connected with the supplied Alpine USB cable. The iPod has "disk access enabled" I have read a post on ipodlounge that claims this is the solution but not for me.
I am going to do a complete restore and try again in the morning.
p.s the iPhone will not work when connected to the Alipnes USB cable the Alpine reports an error 2

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Hi,
I have the latest version of iTunes for Windows and I have never noticed this before on a previous version, but when I try to add album art to most (over 90%) of songs, the addition won't stay if I select another song.
Even worse, if I try to add art while the song is playing, not only will the addition dissappear, the song corrupts in the process. It's as if the jpeg file is inserted into the audio data itself, as the song will grow by a number of seconds (the growth consists of skips and repeats.)
I'm using iTunes with Windows Media Center. I have iTunes maintain my music folder, while Media Player / MCE monitors nothing. I also have a Media Center Extender setup (an Xbox360) that accesses my music as well (through the media player / MCE database.)
None of my music files are tagged as read-only. I have a suspicion that the cause of the problem may be along similar lines (file permissions, access, etc.) but nothing I've
tried works (including resetting all file permissions.)
In addition, none of the iTunes Art Importers work. In using the most popular one (iTunes Art Importer,) the program crashes to a .NET/CLR debugger when I try to import art. Looking at the stack trace, it appears as if the error concerns DLL access.
Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated, as this is a pretty horrible bug (as it has ruined several songs.)
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Use the SHIFT-Launch iTunes method to get iTunes waiting for a library. Stick the iPod in disk mode and connect to the computer. Browse *My Computer* and right-click on the drive for the iPod, click Properties, then click Tools. Under Error-checking, click *Check Now*. Under Check disk options, select *Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors* (Optional - takes ages but a good idea if you've reason to suspect physical damage). Click Start. Mac users should run *Disk Utility / Repair Disk* for the equivalent process. This should find and correct any errors in the logical & physical structures of your iPod's hard drive which may be causing the problem. When the process is complete disconnect the iPod and then reset it (hold Menu+Select ). Cancel the waiting iTunes dialog and then try to connect in the normal way.
If that still doesn't work you could try Erase your iPod - The Super Fix for most iPod Problems. Basically a low level format of the iPod’s hard drive to get around whatever problems are stopping iTunes from working with it.
Have you tried connecting the iPod to another computer to see if the issues is focused on the iPod or iTunes?
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Will the iPod Classic, released this year, work with the Alpine CDE-9881 car stereo?

I plugged it in, started my car this morning and it working fine, no problems at all.
Drove all the way to work, went thought my artists, played differnet stuff no problems.
I'm still going to go to bestbuy today and see if I can duplicate the issue, with them watching.
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The new virsion on ipod is making it slow. i got a 64 gig ipod and when i view my album art it just goes to the home screen . and it has a lot of glitchs

the new virsoin got a lot of glitchs. when is the new virsion coming out

Try:
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Wrong album art displaying for songs on my iPod Classic.

I am having a problem with my 160GB classic iPod. (6th gen. I believe, it's the first 160GB iPod to be released.)
It doesn't happen a lot, but I noticed wrong album art displaying for my songs on my iPod. Then when I check in itunes, the album art is correct. Also, I manually manage my music and videos. So when I check the album art from my ipod's hard-drive through itunes, the album art is correct as well.
I believe the problem happens when the iPod itself tries to find the album art images for the current song being played. It somehow gets jumbled and puts up a random album art image instead of the one it is supposed to.
One thing i noticed is this. Lets say I shuffle all my songs. Once I get up to a song with wrong album art, I skip pass it lets say about 5-10 songs, then I go back to it. The album art often corrects itself, and the right album art is displayed.
I looked around the forums here and see that other people are having similar problems with different kinds of iPods. Maybe it's a firmware issue?

I'm having the exact same issue on my iPod Classic. Haven't used this forum before - do experts provide feedback, or do we just hope that another user can suggest a cure? I haven't reformatted my iPod yet - huge pain, as I also manually manage my music - but will do that if no other solutions present themselves.

ITunes got smarter about album art, why not the iPod Classic?

I'm a long time iTunes fan and noticed that iTunes USED to be "stupid" about album art where the user had to paste the art in multiple times (into every track) or it didn't display in cover flow properly. And, once you did this, then a synched iPod would also display the correct album art on every track instead of SOME of the tracks, which I saw it do...
But the latest versions of iTunes have noticed got "smarter" and I have seen it now where you only need to paste in one image, and iTunes displays it as needed AUTOMATICALLY on all other tracks on the same album.
This is obviously a step forward, especially if you have 5,000 tracks on your iPod!!
I just got a new iPod Classic and I have concluded after a lot of technical research and experimentation that it is still "dumb", and seems to need the album art pasted into every track STILL. It's annoying to me as a computer scientist that the same feature or benefit isn't there on both platforms.
I know this is a pretty advanced question compared to the normal iTunes user, but I was hoping that someone could point me to a better solution than having to paste up to 5,000 album arts into my iPod?
Thanks in advance for any help, I appreciate any comments.
D.

As a computer scientist I love your handle! Are you real? <jk>
I go way way way back with iTunes, I was using it to rip CD's, and as my primary music player on my desktops and laptops beginning in the 90s when it was Mac-only! Long before the iTunes Store even appeared, in fact. I don't actually have even one purchased iTunes store track, just have 5,000 ripped files from my own purchases. I also have edited the files I've imported, so my collection has only stuff I have pre-listened to and like personally, so I found Shuffle play to be a "100% win" and I use it exclusively on both my laptop and my iPod. It's a "100% win" because I stack the deck, to use an american expression.
I had a large CD collection of 500+ CDs so you can see I am a major music enthusiast. Unfortunately, I don't possess the CDs any more but I do have the electronic copies...
I loved how ITunes was time-optimized algorithmically to high efficiency in the ripping process (no doubt Steve Jobs guidance) and automatically looked up track names and artists on the Internet, and automatically managed the MP3s files too. It's competition (Winamp and WMP) still required you to manually manage everything. I also used the burn mp3 cd's function which made single-button burning of up to 12 hours of playlisted content a LOT.
So, that's why I do recall the early days when it was not as "smart" as it is now.
I visited your scripts page, a lot of very cool things there, but, if I understand correctly, Visual Basic doesn't work on OS X? That ***** MICROSOFT. Reminds me of when MS didn't support Apple clients on Exchange!
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D.

Album art and error 50

hi there!
ok heres the deal. i have a brand new 30GB ipod video and i use windows XP (sp2) with itunes 6. Like many other people on here, my album work was showing up in itunes, but not on my ipod. i added the artwork via my ipod in the source list. i have unchecked the box that says wheather or not to display album art, then disconnected the ipod and reconnected it. i then rechecked the album art box in the preferences and it began to "optimize album art" and update. when it was supposed to be finished it gave me error 50...something like "the ipod [my ipods name] could not be updated because of an unknown error (-50)"
i have looked all over the apple site and all through discussions yet no answers have come my way. please help. thanks.

This worked for me too. My ipod is now displaying the album art again.
im FLABBERGASTED! i was fiddling with itunes and
the
album art (i added the artwork to the library even
though it was already on the ipod) and nothing was
working. i got the same error. then...my cat was
walking around by my pc cords and accidently
unplugged it from the wall. everything went off.
my
ipod went back to its main menu (from the do not
disconnect)i picked it up just to see how it was
acting and now all the album art is showing
up....im
not telling all of you to improperly dc your
ipods...im just plain flabbergasted....
hey... i was having the same problem, and i tried
that, and it worked for me too! thanks. just
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New album art feature and the album art screen saver

Hi,
I've been using (and enjoying) the built-in album art screen saver for my locked screen for a long time. A few days after I've updated to iTunes 7, I began to delete old covers of my favorite albums (low resolution, bad color, read: Google image search) and applied the better-looking ITMS covers by selectively using the "get album art" feature.
Since I did that, those favorite albums do not appear in the screen saver rotation anymore.
I'm aware that the downloaded covers aren't saved in-file but in the /Album Artwork folder, so I'm certain that's the problem - the screen saver isn't programmed to look for those.
Now, does a workaround exist for that? Does Apple plan a small update (unlikely) / did anybody write a compatible clone / did anybody found a hack? Unfortunately, it's not in the localizible part of "iTunes Artwork.saver".
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Album Art is making me crazy! Won't stay attached in iPod but ok in iTunes!

1.Some of my Album Art is imported from iTunes, some is copied / pasted from internet since I can't get it from "Import Art" from iTunes. I also use an external hard drive to store my iTunes on. iTunes plays fine, and in iTunes, all my album art is displayed. However, several albums (only about 10 out of over 1000) show no album art at all in my iPod(s). I download it again, drag it into the window where you drop artwork and it seems fine in iTunes but again will not show up in my iPod. The image is fine as it shows in iTunes and is the same size as all my other image files I have used.
I have even deleted all the art from each individual track in iTunes which had missing art and reloaded it - same thing. This is making me nuts! Any ideas? I'm a very anal person and I want art on every track/album.
This happens on my new iPod classic 80G w/video as well as an older iPod classic which doesn't support cover flow but still shows album art.
2.On an even weirder note, if I eject/disconnect my external drive to use my laptop, when I reconnect, most of my album art is gone in iTunes. However, if I use the cover flow view to locate the albums with no art, when I get to them I press enter to play the first (or any) song on the album and as soon as it starts to play, the art comes back and then stays! This is very strange. Almost as if iTunes forgot where the art is but playing the song somehow reunites it. I don't get it.

For #1, the iPod's Artwork cache does get corrupted when making frequent changes. In the iPod's Music preferences tab in iTunes, remove the check beside "Display album artwork on your iPod" and select Apply.
Once the iPod has finished syncing, recheck it and hit Apply again. iTunes should recreate the artwork cache and re-sync it to your iPod.
For #2, are you running the itunes database (it has an ITL extension) from the exHD ? Or from the default location on your C: drive. The downloaded artwork from the itunes store goes into a folder named Album Artwork, and that is created in the same folder as the ITL file.
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Runtime Error, but only w/ album art

So everytime I and changing my info on a song, like Artist, album etc, i take Album Art from online and drag it into the album art box. This usually works no problem. but now when i do it after i click okay it says Runtime Error C++ something.
the thing is if I take the album art and save it on my computer then drag it from to desktop it works fine.. i dont understand it.
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Do you or did you ever have the Last.fm software installed? If so, this thread might solve your problem: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1512945

Album art shows only for Now Playing, not Selected

Don't know if this is an iTunes problem or an iPod connection issue. I just reformatted my computer and installed the latest iTunes version. Since there's no music on my harddrive yet, I'm playing my iPod Classic from the computer. The album art is behaving oddly - it only shows in the lower corner display for the Now Playing track. If I click on another track, the Selected art box says Drag Artwork Here, and yet when I go to the file info, the art is there. This happens even for a song I played earlier - if it's not the currently playing song, even if it's on the same album, the art doesn't display. It's the same whether it's an album bought from the iTunes store, from another vendor, or ripped from a CD. Obviously the art is still there, but why isn't it displaying like it did before the reinstall?
(As a side note, if I play the iPod separately from the computer, the art displays just fine.)

nvm, I called apple and fixed it! Thanx!!!!

7.3.1 album art issue is fixed

I just converted lossless files to AIFF and back again. The album art stayed connected the whole way. This is fixed behavior from 7.3. Thank you Apple.

Actually it appears there's something still wrong. Those tracks that preserved album art through conversion to AIFF and back to lossless do NOT show the album art from a shared library. They always used to.
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This is definitely NOT your mother's Album Art Dilemma...

Alright guys, need some help. I was getting curious about winamp the other day, and I must confess, I left my beloved iTunes for a copy of my friend's Winamp Pro account. He put it on my computer and I sifted through all the problems that comes with using a new media player (some album art wasn't appearing anymore, some genres got messed up, etc) so I changed them all back to the way they were. About a week ago I was getting sick of winamp and wanted to get back to my old faithful iTunes. So I completely uninstalled winamp (started by going through the control panel uninstall, then noticed that the uninstall wasn't completely full, so I had to get advice from the winamp boards on how to completely uninstall winamp. Turned out I had to go into the system registry and delete some stuff, so I did so. Anyway, I THOUGHT I uninstalled everything... but it seems as though there's still a problem... I converted everything back to iTunes, and now some of my album art won't show up. So you're thinking: "Just select the songs, drag and drop the artwork and you're done," right? Wrong my friends. My iTunes was in pristine condition, everything was perfect. And now, for a few of my albums, the album art is no longer a differentiable parameter. In other words, I select all the songs from an album, click "get info," drag the artwork into the box, click "ok," and nothing happens... seriously... nothing. And I've tried going into each individual song and adding the artwork... Tried dragging the artwork into the lower lefthand box that shows album art (the one that says "drag album artwork here")... Pretty much tried everything...
So, if you decided not to read all that, here's the short version. My album art is no longer a tweakable parameter. After switching to and back from winamp, my album artwork simply does not show up for some albums, and iTunes won't let me add artwork in any way (trust me... I've tried 'em all). Any suggestions?
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HELP PLEASE!!

I used to have this problem whenever I brought music home from work (co-workers would bring it in and I'd take it home on a flash drive).
I found that there was something in the ID3 from WMP-9 that iTunes-6 wouldn't get around so the artwork was unchangeable.....until:
I selected all the songs that I couldn't add art for, and then went to Advanced, and chose "convert to mp3 - now "create mp3 version").
One iTunes had made a new copy, suddenly I could add the artwork.
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Album art tagging vs linking?

Hello helpful people
I am trying to find out if there is a way to determine which of my tracks have the album art linked to the file, as is the case for music bought directly from the Apple Store and where iTunes' "Get album artwork" functionality is used to download the album art.
Before I fully understood the mechanisms that control and manage album art, I was using a combination of two methods to add it; 1) iTunes' "Get album artwork" and 2) by scouring the web for decent cover art images (or correct ones where Apple's were wrong) and dragging them into the "Album art" box of the appropriate tracks in iTunes (and thus into the files' tags). This means that I now have a mixture of methods at work, and besides simply being irked by the inconsistency of it, if I were to ever divorce myself from iTunes I would lose all the cover art for those tracks and albums for which the art is merely linked, and not incorporated into the files themselves as a tag.
I would like to be able to identify all the tracks with linked album art, and so be able to select them all and tick the "Album art" box as blank, thereby deleting all the linked instances of album art. I appreciate that this leaves me with a lot of work to replace the now deleted art, but given the growing number of programs out there that will scour the web and automatically download album art I think it is not an insurmountable task.
Hmmm... Would simply deleting the iTunes/Album Artwork folder do the trick? The actual image files that are the tracks are linked to are stored in there, right? So if I deleted this folder I should essentially have deleted all the instances of linked artwork in my library... right?
Afterthought: This whole issue might also be moot if there is software that will download the album art and save it in the file tags, and will override the linked iTunes album art in cases where it exists. Does anyone know of any suitable program? I have my library rigged up to play on both my Mac and PC so it could be either a Windows or Mac program.
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iTunes has nothing to do with it.
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In the past, with previous versions of iTunes, it was possible to simply click on a song and the album art for that song would appear in the lower left corner of the iTunes window. There was an option to have the album art showing either for the song that was currently playing, or for the song that was currently clicked on. I can't seem to find this feature/option anywhere. Is it no longer possible? It would be nice to listen to music, and then click on another, and see that song's album art without having to get info on the song or switch to the coverflow mode.

Yes. I know that. When choosing "View Album Art" then you can view the album art in that little window IF the song is playing. If no song is playing, then nothing shows when you just click once on a song title. In the past, it was possible to just click once on a song title and have the artwork show in that little window.

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