Album art on i-tunes

I have never used Apple products mainly because most of my vast music collection is on WMA files, but recently I have been considering getting the new ipod touch after having learnt that I-tunes will easily convert these.
Problem:
I installed i-tunes and put just a few of my music albums across, a mix of WMA and mp3 which transferred ok except for the album art. No album art has been transferred. A lot of my album art cannot be obtained from the sources on-line and quite a lot is my own design.
At present I use WMP which allows me to paste my own art but I don't see this option in i-tunes.
Can anyone offer some advice as if this is going to be an issue I will just have to abandon my choice of moving to Apple.

Thanks for your reply.
By doing what you say I am able to transfer any album art I created myself as these have been stored as images in my documents. So far so good.
Now for the next bit. How do I get other art which I don't have stored, to transfer along with the music folder.
Why doesn't i-tunes automatically include the artwork when I move a music album into i-tunes just as WMP does.

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I have three computers, each with its own iTunes Library, but if I add material to one, every few days I make sure that it's copied over to the others via homesharing. However, some of the metadata does not transfer, specifically the album art work. So on one library, call it my Home Library, everything is nice and tidy, with album artwork where it should be. On the other two, all the albums I've painstakingly made sure are complete on the home library are missing the art work.
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Script for embedding artwork - http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=embedart
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i had the same probs with mine
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Can i just take the album art from itunes store w/out buying

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I'm a bit fussing about my album art, like to have all my tunes with their respective covers on my nano!
Anyway, I use a program called iTunes Art Importer, which runs alongside iTunes (although 3rd party, not Apple).
Its dead simple to use, it pulls the art from Amazon. Just highlight your track (or tracks)and click search. I find using the "overide search text" works really well for not so well known music, just keep the search simple.
Anyway, here's the link, it's free, give it a try!
http://www.yvg.com/itunesartimporter.shtml

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Hello,
I am having a problem too, just in how to link the album art to files.
I play some songs, they fine, others not, wish i knew how to set the linking so I could manage the album art manually by linking to certain mp3 files. IE two or three songs come from the one art img.
With your problem however, it sounds like the pc media player has downloaded art for your songs, kindly put them somewhere for you to see when listening to your music (on CD[if so have a look at the folder settings in the tool options bit of WMP],
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