Adding artwork to .wav files

Why can you not add artwork to .wav files?
I am a DJ, and create mix cd's. I have iTunes 7. I wanted to use iTunes to burn the CD's, and I thought it would be nice for my listeners to have a copy of my album artwork for each particular CD. Is there not a way to at least add a file to a cd that you are burning from a playlist? It doesn't even give you the option. It just starts burning the CD. I guess I could just do it manually through windows, and add the jpeg file, but it says there is not enough space on my blank disc. Why would the files be larger? It says I have to get rid of 25 MB os stuff from the disc. The picture file is only 3 MB. Plus, this is a CD that I've been burning for over a year. No problems before. Why won't iTunes work with it? Am I missing something?
Also, some of my track names are long. I list the original artist - track name - and sometimes who did the particular remix. Maybe I'm missing something here, but why is it that when I import a song to iTunes, part of the file name is cut off? Windows has been pestering me with this for so long. Anytime I move a file, or copy the music file contents of a folder, the names get cut short, and I have to sit, and rename each of them. It makes me sick! Now, iTunes is doing it.
I imported the Songs into iTunes. I burned a CD. I ejected the CD, and re-inserted it. It pops up in iTunes with all of the track information that I put into it. However, if I click on the drive in windows, there are no track names.
what gives?

figment222,
A couple of things. .wav files are uncompressed audio files with no support for "tagging" information to them. When you insert an audio CD in a Windows-based PC they appear as .wav files to allow you to drag and drop them as a way of importing them as uncompressed audio. On a Mac they will appear as AIFF.
The artwork is stored in a "tag" in an MP3 or AAC file. This article has more information:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93672
When you enter information for an Audio CD, iTunes can not write that information to the CD, but will remember that information on your computer. This article gives more information:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93952

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How does one get artwork onto wav files? If that's not possible, will converting solve the issue? iTunes help has what seems to be a simple way to convert wav to mp3, but I couldn't get it to work.
Has anyone solved this dilemma?
If it matters, I'm trying to add "misc." artwork, not an actual album cover or anything.

Carl2444 wrote:
will converting solve the issue?
definitely
iTunes help has what seems to be a simple way to convert wav to mp3, but I couldn't get it to work.
i was just running into this in another thread. here's what Zevoneer suggested:
+If the tracks are in your iTunes library (and there is no DRM copy protection on them) go to Edit>Preferences>General (or iTunes>Preferences>General on a Mac) and choose the Import Settings button. Pick the format you want to convert your files to (MP3 for example). in your iTunes library or playlist highlight the song or songs you want to convert and go to the Advanced menu on the top bar of iTunes and choose, again for example "Create MP3 version":How to convert a song to a different file format. You can't use iTunes to convert tracks that are not in your iTunes library.+
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It's true. I tried. Is that supposed to happen? Why can't I put artwork on a WAV file in iTunes?

i think and am pretty sure that the album art is saved into the tracks data tags. There is a difference between the data tag on a file and the iTunes database infomation. Things like artist, album, genre go into the tracks data tag. Things like ratings and playcount go into the database file (see ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Database). If the artwork were stored in iTunes then it would global and across all formats and would not be retained if music is moved around. I think that album art is preserved if a track is moved and as you've pointed out album art can't be added to some formats such as WAV so i'm guessing that album art is a codec limitation. WAV is pretty old a raw uncompressed format that is much larger than mp3 or aac. You would need to convert the audio to one of these formats to add album art. To do this set your import options to one of these codecs under the importing tab in the advanced pane of the iTunes preferences. Then with the WAVs selected in iTunes go to the Advanced Menu in the main menu bar and click on 'Convert Selection to <Codec you chose>'
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@Dj_AmTraX: good tip!
I tried to first load my music as apple lossless and added the artwork (via get info, artwork, add) then loaded all the music a second time additionally in the WAV file format. The album artwork then appeared in iTunes for all the WAV files too. So one could say yes, it can be done but apparently on iTunes only with a bit of extra work and the restriction of needing to have the music stored in two different formats.
It is a pity that Apple's iTunes doesn't support linking WAV files to artwork jpgs as standard.
The more mp3-like the product the less likely they seem inclined to offer good functionality for the (hi-fi, bulkier) WAV format. Now storage is so less expensive they should maybe re-think? I find high-resolution audio files so much better on a good hi-fi system ;-)
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I have a few music in my iTunes that are in WAV audio format, in the get info I am not able to add missing artwork like I can do all the others audio format and yes I have tried the get album artwork from iTunes but it says could not be found. What is this?

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Can you add album art to .wav files?

Can you add album art to .wav files?
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In terms of adding meta tags to WAV files, one or two programs use RIFF chunks to store meta tags in WAV files, this is actually how Apple do it for AIFF files. However iTunes does not support this for WAV files, and Windows Media Player does not support reading the tags in AIFF files.
If you are looking for a lossless music format that can be shared between iTunes and Windows Media Player then I have been there, got the T-Shirt, etc.
A long time ago in a Galaxy far, far away... before I ripped all my CDs to iTunes, I considered what format to use that would be lossless and shareable amongst everything I was interested in.
That is, what is the one true lossless format (to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them...).
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However I never give up and continued on my quest for the holy grail of one lossless format to rule them all.
FLAC and OGG can sort of be used in iTunes for Mac, but not on iPod, so they were ruled out. WMA lossless was instantly ruled out because while it might be possible to import in to iTunes (for Windows), it cannot be used in iTunes (meaning you would have two copies of each track), and it also cannot be used on the iPod.
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