Add artwork to playlists or playlist folders?

Doing so seems irrelevant in iTunes, but on my iPhone (and I presume iPods), when selecting a playlist artwork is displayed.
The artwork seems to default to the first song in the playlist. But I want unique art to appear for a given playlist.
I came up with a work around which involves creating a blank, 1-second long track that is alphabetically first in the playlist and has the artwork I desire, but is there a better way?
The other question I have is can I assign artwork to a playlist folder (a collection of playlists). On my iPhone these folders are just blank and my workaround doesn't work because I can't put an individual track in the folder (only within actual playlists). Is this possible?

This was answered in another poast I made. Supposably you must, add the artwork to the end of the movie, then set that as the posterframe. This will then show up as artwork on iTunes.

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Hi everybody,
I recently updated iTunes to the newest version and now ran into some problems.
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It sounds like your issue here is that iTunes can not find the files for some of the songs you have brought into it. This happens occasionally even if the songs have not been moved from the location that iTunes places them on import or purchase. When you try to use the song, iTunes prompts you to find the file, as you have seen.
To find the file, use the information in this article to navigate through the iTunes media folders -
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If you are still unable to locate the files, you may need to download them from the iTunes store again, or rip them from your CDs. See this article for assistance with downloading your past purchases -
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Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
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Ive got to be an idiot. ive had my ipod for years and ive yet to figure this out:
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Add artwork to playlists or playlist folders?

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