Album art changing with song changes

Hi,
I have a question that seems like there should be and easy fix for. When Im playing iTunes, the album artowrk never changes, from song to song, it only displays the album artwork for the song I first chose when I started playing iTunes. Is there a setting I have set wrong?
Thanks

It doesn't change even when iTunes moves on to a new album? If you're talking about the artwork in the artwork pane in the lower left corner, make sure it's set to "Now Playing" and not "Selected Item". If it's in Coverflow, I'm not sure what to tell you.

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