Album art download spotty at best, what best 3rd party tool works well?

I have hundreds of Gb of music and probably 40% of that - no cover art. Running this feature in iTunes does nothing - comes up telling me I have over 5,000 album art covers not able tgo be downloaded. Tried various other 3rd party tools, not that many work well.
Can anyone recommend one that works well? I'm not sure why this feature works so unreliably. I can find most of these albums on Amazon and can apply the art manually. It should use some kind of fuzzy logic to guestimate the darn title and bring it down I would think.
Thanks

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Can someone please recommend the BEST FREE album art download program for PC running XP Pro? If you've only tried one, please don't respond - how will you know it's the best if you never tried any others?
I tried the one at this link:
http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/projects/albumart/
and it gets the art fine, but doesn't automagically import it into iTunes. Seems like iTunes requires that the art be embedded in the music files somehow. This just places the art in the music folder, then you have to drag it into iTunes. Kind of a pain.
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Welcome to Apple Discussions
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It's the same with me. It appears that only manually added artwork displays. Songs with downloaded artwork show a blank in iTunes when I play them from the iPod, although on the iPod itself the artwork shows.
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