Album Art. How?

How do I download album art automatically? Not for my iTunes library, but straight onto my ipod device.
I know the "Automatically download missing artwork" option on Preferences. But that doesn't always work.
Is there a software or a widget that can help me out? I'm currently using the Amazon Album Art widget. It works great, but is there something that could work automatically without me having to type the artist name on dashboard? Because I have a lot of missing album art. There are softwares that can download the album art for whatever is currently playing on iTunes library. BUT I wanted to be used on the iPod device window NOT the music library.
What do I need?
Thank you in advance.

I still have not found a solution

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Thrill_killer wrote:
I've been using the Windows Media Sync for my music. And it works for me. It's a fast and easy way to put music on my
X. But, I have a few questions.
1. Using WMS, does the music go on the SD card,or the phone storage memory?
Music will sync onto the SD Card because the internal memory isnt accessable by any 3rd part apps, you should have a Music folder on SD Card that would be where your audio will sync to... Basically all media files saved or downloaded will go onto the SD Card.
2. Is there a way to add the Album Art after the music is already on via WMS?
Windows Media album information is stored usually in a folder where album is saved but in a data file usually so unless you wrote the art information into the file you will have to download a app like Album Art Grabber off the market that can retrieve the cover information or try "Tag and Rename" from http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
, this is what I use to edit MP3 tags and cover art.
3. Do I have to get rid of the WMS and add the music through a add-on folder through the USB Mass Storage option?
If you copy the whole folder of where the music is stored the album cover may copy over but this is a guess since I write the information straight to the file.
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