Album art is wrong on iPod but right on iTunes

I have album art for a good amount of my music. In iTunes the it is all correctly assigned but when I use my iPod it has the wrong album art on about 70% of my music. I have tried deleting everything from the iPod and reloading it. It kind of worked but everytime I buy new music and assigned ablumn art it messes it up. Wondering if anyone has any ideas?
Thank you in advance!
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I've got the exact same problem. I'd love to hear a solution. Thanks.

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Hi Squeaky98,
If you are having issues syncing or viewing album art on your iPod, you may find the following articles helpful:
Apple Support: Viewing album artwork on iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2317
iPod: Artwork missing from songs
http://support.apple.com/kb/ta38085
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least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
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Note this is happening only recently.
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Has happened for years with even iPods.
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Hi, new here.
So I have an ipod nano 5th gen: 16GB.
I have ~1500 songs on it and have been facing a slew of interesting issues with my album art.
1. I prefer to add songs manually as I tend to want only some of an artist, genre, or similar, and I like the control it gives me. The problem that I've been having is that there is no efficient way to add artwork to the songs / albums on my ipod that I have ripped from CDs, and are already on my ipod. Going through all my songs and seeing if they have art would be tedious and time consuming, and the only better way to do this seems to be deleting songs off of my ipod and re-copying them. Normally, I would just delete all my songs and re-copy them all, and go do something else for half an hour or so, but there are some songs on my ipod that may not even exist on my computer anymore, and I can't get them again. Is there a better way to just synch songs with the ones in my library and update those that have had art added? (The synch button at the bottom of the ipod tab / window doesn't seem to do that.)
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See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
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