Album Art extremely glitchy

So I've been facing two problems with my album art:
1. Whenever I have a song bluetoothed to my phone, if it doesn't come with album art, my phone chooses the most recent photo that I had blueoothed and sets it as the album art for the song. Is there any way to stop this? Also, sometimes the app is so set on that photo that it won't let me change it (whether it be me replacing it or just trying to get the default album art.)
2. If I try to change it (and by some miracle it does change), the album art is only 1/4 there. The app only shows the top of the image and the rest is just black. Are the photos I'm using too large for the app (they seem fine to me) or is it something else?
Thanks in advance!

If the track doesn't have album art then it never did ie: It was never embedded into the track, However you can use an app called cover art downloader to add images or you could transfer the track to a Pc and use mp3tag to embed images into the track
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So, my question is, how the heck do I get my album art back on my darn iPod?! I have tried manually re-syncing individual songs after deleting them off of my iPod and they won't re-sync. I have also tried re-syncing my entire music library to my iPod, and the result was the same as before. Most of the album art didn't transfer to the iPod.
I'm extremely frustrated at this point. I'm at the very verge of jailbreaking this thing and iFunbox-ing all of my album art over to it forcefully. If Apple can't fix my problem, I will. I'm at that point right now.
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Have you:
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Thanks, Mimico Kid! Your suggestion was extremely easy and worked like a charm!
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I'm just wondering if we're capable of updating it, or where the information comes from. I'd also like to know about iTunes capitalization and punctuation standards, if there's a link to that, a la Wikipedia, and genre listing. Who controls that information?
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After a bit more research this afternoon, I did discover the Gracenote website where they have some interesting information. It's interesting to me that iTunes draws its album names and genre from Gracenote, but its art from the iTunes store (at least as far as I've been able to figure out).
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Of late, music I have purchased from iTunes does not seem to download the album art ie: the music downloads fine, but there is no album art with it, despite the fact that on the iTunes site it DOES have album art when advertised.
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