A possible solution for the Itunes 12 album art dilemma!

I may have found the reason as to why the album art isn't working here are the steps i used to solve this!
1. Locate the music within the hard drive.
2. Select every single music you want to add an art to, Either ctrl ( or command) + click the multiple files, or Crtl (or command) A to select all
3. Right click, and go to properties
4. Uncheck "read only"
5. save
6. Go back to itunes, and add the album art using the original method, it should work now!
Hope it helps!

For a more systematic approach see Repair security permissions for iTunes for Windows.
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