Album art going away

Hey,
I have got an i pod last week and am still in my cooling off period,
the album art was comming up fine, i click the button to enlarge the art and its fine, but sometimes it keeps going away and showing nothing????
am i do something wrong??
help....

Hi folks!
Same problem here across the ocean. I would really appreciate any tip to solve the problem.
Let's strive for quality, Apple!

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1) I added album at to all of my tracks in my 'music folder' using itunes
2) Used Doug's AppleScrips for Itunes to embed the artwork
3) The icon on my music files changed from the itunes default grey background with a music note to display the album art when browsing my music files in finder
4) I copied my music folder with embedded artwork to my external HD as a backup
Every piece of software i've tried - itunes, traktor pro, songbird, vlc, media monkey (bootcamp), tag&rename (bootcamp) shows that the album art is with the file.
Yet...
1) If I copy tracks from my music folder to another location such as the desktop the file icon no longer dispays the album art on the icon - it is replaced by the grey itunes icon with the musical note.
2) If I rename tracks in my music folder the file icon no longer dispays the album art on the icon - it is replaced by the grey itunes icon with the musical note.
3) The backup I made on external HD no longer displays the embedded album art in the file icon
Despite this the music file seems to have the artwork attached to it when launched in the mentioned music software.
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I have a 16GB iPod Touch that I've been syncing with my Windows Vista PC, seemingly without complications. It has only recently come to my attention that somewhere between my computer's library and my library on my iPod, something is messing up at random times. Full songs will become half-songs, 30-second songs, on the iPod. They are not damaged on my PC, but when they get uploaded to the iPod, they get messed up. If I re-upload them, sometimes the problem goes away, sometimes it cuts in a different spot. This is immensely frustrating, as I do not know how to fix it or what is causing it to begin with.
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1) Stop "Windows Search." It's not the major cause of sync problems, but it is a contributor, which is unsurprising given the amount of resources it hogs. Open the "Services" control panel item (Control Panel->System and Maintenance->Administrative Tools->Services, or just type "services.msc" into the "search" box on the Start Menu) and double-click "Windows Search." Click "stop" and set the startup type to "disabled," then click "OK."
2) This next part is going to be a bitter pill to swallow. When Microsoft launched Vista, it created a new "security feature" called PatchGuard which disallows direct kernel access to third-party applications. Antivirus vendors like McAfee, Symantec, Avast, etc. all have to use a kernel API rather than direct kernel access. However, Microsoft's own antivirus product -- Windows Live OneCare -- has complete access to the kernel without an API.
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Yes there is a major bug here! I cant believe there isn't more people than this complaining about it?
I have a 5th Generation video iPod. running on a G4 Mac.
My problem is similar but involves random podcast images/album art taking over my pre existing song album art and not all of the songs from an album either just some of them?
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how do you put album art on the ipod video? i put songs on it from my cds but i don't know how to add the album art to it

I found the easiest way at least for me, was to go to Amazon and search under popular music.
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Once that shows up, click the thumbnail and it should open in a new window. (I do this cuz sometimes if the CD is on sale it'll have a little bubble on the bottom of the pic that says 20% off or something. When you enlarge the image, the sale bubble goes away.)
Right click and save picture to wherever it saves on your comp.
Then when your in iTunes, right click on your song(s) and hit get info.
Find the artwork tab, click it and hit the "ADD" button.
Then find wherever you save your pix to and hit open.
Then hit "OK" on the info window form your song.
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Thank you for your response, but the issue is not so simple. Album art is embeded for sure. I've edited all the tags properly. I do know smth about it, believe me)) And the album art IS displayed, BUT only if I open Music+Videos or Nokia Music apps and within these apps, not on the desktop. But I want the album art to be displayed ALSO on the desktop (+lock screen, if possible) while music is playing in backgroud mode. It is just the issue of design, and I wonder if I could somehow contact developers to fix this. I think, this would only popularize Windows Phone and would make the desktop more bright and dinamic.
To make it clear I attach two screenshots.
You can see the same track playing. Album art is displayed in Music+Videos app
BUT it is not displayed on the desktop (only artist name on the grey backgroud; I've circled it red)
So I want album art to be displayed on the desktop TOO. Is it clear now?
Thanks in advance
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Album art fails to show after 1st track

ipod classic 80G fw 1.0.3
The album art shows properly in CoverFlow
When I start playing from coverflow, it shows the proper album art in the first song I play, but if I go the next song, it shows the "music notes" placeholder like there is no art in the file.
Now for the kicker: if I press the center click from coverflow to show the track list, then start playing the album on track #2, then it shows the artwork, but if I move on to the next track, it fails to show the artwork again.
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