Adding Artwork Corrupts Songs

This doesn't happen every time, but it seems to happen more frequently than not:
Sometimes when I burn a CD to iTunes and add album artwork, a previously fine track will no longer play correctly. The song will be fine, then I'll add artwork, and when I play it again the song might play for a second or two, then it'll stop, and then it'll go back to the beginning. Is there a way to make this stop, or will I just need to stop adding my own artwork?
Like I said, it doesn't happen all the time. I was able to add artwork to my Beatles albums with no problem, but all of my Black Sabbath has been nothing but trouble. Even just now, I copied the album Sabotage with no problem, but then after adding artwork "Hole in the Sky" will play for a second, it'll stop briefly, and then go back to the beginning.

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Yes there is a way. Just make sure under your iPod Options (right-click on your ipod in the left-hand side of itunes and then ipod options) and make sure you have selected.... "Display Album Pictures on iPod."

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Hi guys, I just got some compilations dvds for which iTunes has no artwork available, so I want to scan their artworks and manually add them to each song. I intend to make a nice tiny file that isn't bigger than 100kB (I don't want to increase the size of every song by much) and yet to be as clear as possible. You know, to show a decent artwork when in Front Row.
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Manual works well but if you delete a song from your computer then you lose the "orignal" so if anything happens to your iPod library you don't get it back with importing or purchasing again.

Manually added artwork won't stick anymore.

I can get it added but it's not persistent. It goes away as soon as I go away from the particular album.
This used to work. I've added lots of manual artwork for the album covers. But somewhere with new releases of software it broke. I'm on the current version of Itunes but can't tell you exactly what version used to work.
I've completely uninstalled and reinstalled Itunes as recommended by support but it didn't help.
Is anyone else having problems with their manually added artwork?

Adding artwork to songs and other items
Music and video you buy from the iTunes Store comes with its own artwork. *You can add your own artwork to songs and other items in your library.*
*You can add many popular types of still-image files, including JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and Photoshop. You must convert WAV files to another format before you can add artwork.*
In list view (the leftmost View button), to display artwork for the currently selected item, choose View > Show Artwork or click this button (in the bottom left of the iTunes window):
Make sure the artwork you import into iTunes is a compatible format. If your personal movie is a WAV file, it must be converted to another format before artwork can be added.
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While manually adding & removing artwotk have had strange experiences.
Most notably the added artwork shows up pixelated & corrupt looking,
for lack of a better term. Then the files lost all metadata but the songs titles.
I know it sounds like bad files, but these were newly downloaded from iTunes....
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I often want to remove files from my iTunes library, but keep them on my harddrive. That's why iTunes asks you if you want to delete it. Holding control down when you hit delete will at least get rid of the first dialogue box.
If you are trying to delete a song that is playing, it won't delete it because it is in use.
I assume the same is happening on your machine with podcasts. Your system thinks the files is still in use, so can not delete it.

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I'm adding artwork to the songs that iTunes couldn't find automatically. Is there a way to add the artwork to more than one song at a time? It would be way easier if I could just add the artwork to an album all at once. I tried listing the songs in "Album List" order and dragging the .jpg into the blank artwork icon, but it didn't take.
Please tell me that there's a way to do this; it's a hassle having to add artwork one song at a time!
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-Adam

At the Artwork box at lower left, click the text above the box so it shows "Selected Item".
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Anyway around this? I want the added cover art to display per song.

The artwork of each individual track does display during playback, in the small thumbnail at the top of the iTunes window, or at the left of the MiniPlayer control (opens by clicking the thumbnail), or the larger artwork panel that is shown if you click on the Show Large Artwork control in the MiniPlayer. It should also display on any iPod or iOS Now Playing view.
The Up Next list uses the album art (usually cover of the first track) for everything from the same album, which is perhaps a shame, although in general one artwork per album makes sense.
tt2

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Until yesterday I had never bothered with adding artwork to my itunes library as I had a gen 3 iPod that would not show it anyway. I have a new ipod so last night I decided to add artwork, this I did by getting what I could from Gracenote, the rest I have been dragging from images on Amazon and other sites. Ever since doing this the Group Compilations option no longer works, despite having this checkbox ticked in preferences and making sure that the yes box for part of a compilation is ticked for these albums. In addition, every song in a compilation album is displayed individually in the Cover Flow view option.
Is this a peculiarity of 7.2 or is there a way I can get this to work again? I am sure it is something to do with having added artwork as it was working fine before.
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Until yesterday I had never bothered with adding artwork to my itunes library as I had a gen 3 iPod that would not show it anyway. I have a new ipod so last night I decided to add artwork, this I did by getting what I could from Gracenote, the rest I have been dragging from images on Amazon and other sites. Ever since doing this the Group Compilations option no longer works, despite having this checkbox ticked in preferences and making sure that the yes box for part of a compilation is ticked for these albums. In addition, every song in a compilation album is displayed individually in the Cover Flow view option.
Is this a peculiarity of 7.2 or is there a way I can get this to work again? I am sure it is something to do with having added artwork as it was working fine before.
The help menu in itunes seems to have stopped working too now, which doesn't help...obviously!

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I have a new 16g nano. I have only added about 600 songs so far. It is telling me that I 4.47G of songs and 9.92G of other and only 3.297MB of space left. I have no tvshows, no movies, no pictures on the Ipod. How do I find out what the "other" is and get rid of it?

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I used to just search for the artwork in Firefox, then go to Get Info in iTunes and drag and drop the album art...
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adding artwork never was a problem. Usually, as was already suggested, I would choose the whole album (highlight all songs from the same album), if I see all the songs, or just right-click on the album if I am in the higher level menu (see only albums), then go to Get Info and in the main Tab called Info there is a place for the artwork in the bottom right corner, where I'd drug the artwork file from the browser or Finder. There is a green plus sign appearing above the field, then just drop the image there.
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at the left bottom corner of the main iTunes window, but for some it did NOT work! Some further investigation gave the following: if I open Get Info for some individual songs, there is an Artwork tab there which is accessible (and show by clear black colour). The artowork can then be also added there (by dragging). However, for some songs that field is not anymore accessible and is masked (shown by a soft gray colour). I have no clue of why this happens!!! Does anybody have any idea???

Getting Album Artwork for songs NOT in iTunes and ONLY on iPod

Hello
Am I missing something obvious here? I am struggling with the album artwork feature for use in the coverflow section of the iPod Classic 80GB. I do NOT keep all of my songs in iTunes as my laptop hard drive is just not big enough.
My problem is that highlighting the songs on my iPod once I've connected it to iTunes then selecting Get Album Artwork simply doesn't work. Only trawling through countless forums on various websites I've discovered that possibly the artwork is only updated for songs you have in the iTunes library or only for songs bought on iTunes. I have 1000s of CDs I've uploaded onto my iPod (surely lots of people do not keep their music in iTunes for the same reason as me - small hard drive?)
There MUST be a software fix for this problem that could be issued out? Or if not, somebody should come up with a fix on an independent website. By the way, all of my tracks on the iPod have had their info obtained from the Gracenotes system used through iTunes so not having matching info to iTunes cannot be a reason for the lack of artwork can it?
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My problem is that highlighting the songs on my iPod once I've connected it to iTunes then selecting Get Album Artwork simply doesn't work.
Correct. It's meant to access your iTunes library and add artwork from the iTunes store.
There MUST be a software fix for this problem that could be issued out?
Nothing that I know of because it's meant to work this way.
By the way, all of my tracks on the iPod have had their info obtained from the Gracenotes system used through iTunes so not having matching info to iTunes cannot be a reason for the lack of artwork can it?
No, because as I say, it's meant to add artwork in the iTunes library (although even this can sometimes be an issue if the album info obtained from Gracenote doesn't match what's in the iTunes store.)
If an iPod is set to manage the songs manually, then it's possible to add the artwork to the songs directly onto the iPod (when looking at them through iTunes) without adding it to the songs in iTunes. Just copy paste an album image from (say) Amazon into the artwork box in the bottom left corner when looking at the songs on your iPod through iTunes.
However, I have found that if you are adding artwork directly to the iPod via iTunes and not to songs in the library first of all, then some (or all) artwork may not display correctly.

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Ok I know more. The two discs I was adding artwork to had a small number of tracks. One had 2 and the other had 3. I believe this is why the artwork was not showing.
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Hi All,
Background/Symptoms: My macbook pro (2008 unibody) crashed a little while ago. It started being really sluggish, so I tried to install an update and during the update I got an error. I turned off the computer and it wouldn't boot past the apple logo. When I started it in Verbose mode I was getting a disk input output error.
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