Album Art Not Saving

I have iTunes 11 and have imported a CD of my own making.  I have a JPG file that I want to use for album artwork.  I select the album and Get Info and then paste the image into the album artwork field.  The artwork appears, but it is not saved when I click OK.  All other album artwork I have added saves just fine.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
John

Mario,
Thanks, but I think I figured out that the problem is with the file format.  I have some files in WAV format and those do not seem to allow album artwork to "stick".  Once I changed the file to Apple Lossless format, the album artwork "stuck" just fine.
What was confusing is that iTunes gave no indication of the fact that album art does not work with WAV files.
Thanks,
John

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