Album art seriously screwed up

I noticed that a bunch of songs and albums on my iPhone 3G are missing their album artwork- it just displays the generic music note logo on the phone, but the artwork is present in iTunes. Interestingly, the messed up albums are almost entirely in the bottom half of the album list when sorted by artist. The art is apparently not visible from any mode on the iPhone: not in coverflow, not in the album list, not the locked desktop, but again, it's there in iTunes.
I have tried resetting the phone, syncing again, etc. I even tried re-applying the artwork or converting ID3 tags, but once I started doing that, the album art started *showing up on the wrong albums*. What do I do?

I tried un-synching music (which then removes the music from the iphone) and then re-synching the same music back (which adds it back on the next sync), and this fixed the issue of mixed up artwork. I've seen that this doesn't work fro everyone, but it's worth a first try as it involves the least amount of work.

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Recovering album art for movies

I am having problems with the album art on itunes. The album art for my songs, tv shows, and movies, I can seem them in itunes. but when I load the files onto my ipod touch the album art gets screwed up. It takes frames from movies and substitutes them for album art for a song. anyway so I went to the apple store, and they told me to delete the album art and have itunes redownload it using the get album art thing in itunes. I went into the movie files and deleted the album art. and when I told itunes to get new album art, it did not fix the problem. now I can't see the album art in itunes anymore. I know it's not a big deal... but I really would like to fix it. any help would be appreciated.
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Hi,
As a recommendation, check online to see if you can get an app that does that for you.

Serious playback defect due to incorrect handling of album art

There is a serious issue with either the iPod firmware or the iTunes software that is causing erratic performance, skips in music, and, in a few rare instances, complete freezing of the iPod.
The issue either lies in how iTunes 'optimizes artwork' for the iPod, or in how the iPod reads and displays artwork from its database. Basically, the problem occurs when you select a song with album artwork and, for whatever reason, the iPod cannot handle the reading and displaying fast enough and it chokes momentarily, resulting in a very noticeable skip in the music playback.
This isn't all artwork, mind you - I see the problem more frequently with larger size and higher complexity pieces of artwork. I'm not sure why size and content are a factor, as the iTunes software supposedly 'optimizes artwork' to whatever extent is necessary so the iPod can utilize it properly, but there is definitely a correlation between the music skipping and the quality of the file.
For songs that also have lyrics, the iPod is brought completely to its knees. My 60GB 5G Video iPod consistently completely skips over songs with artwork and lyrics (if I select them, songs that are simply next in line on a playlist always play fine because there is more than enough time for them to be loaded into cache while the previous song plays).
I wasn't immediately sure what was causing these skips (both in music, and the complete skipping of songs) but on a whim I told the iPod not to display artwork - everything began to immediately work perfectly. Every song I tested loaded fine and played without a single skip, even the previous problem tracks with lyrics. Telling the iPod to display artwork again brought the problem right back full force.
I've restored the iPod numerous times, toggled display artwork on and off to force it to re-optimize near a dozen times now, and even this afternoon completely uninstalled iTunes, iPod software, and Quicktime from my computer, restarted, and reinstalled everything. I tried a friends computer the other day and same results every single time.
The problem was actually lessened by getting rid of all non-album art pictures - a lot fewer songs skipped, but some still did. Restoring the iPod and only putting ~10 tracks (10 of the really bad ones) produced unusual results - they all played fine. But then loading more tracks brought the problem back again (I have a 40 GB collection). Put pictures back on it and forget about it. So this leads me to believe that the iPod can't properly handle a large artwork database - long load times would be fine, but there must be something in the iPod's software that forces it to continue on after a certain amount of time has passed, whether it is ready or not, and that causes these skips.
This same exact problem plays out in the exact same way on a 60GB 4G Photo iPod - it's actually worse, probably because the newer 5G iPods have faster hardware that compensates a little better. I don't remember having these problems pre-iTunes 6 when I just had the 4G Photo iPod, but I never did a lot of testing. With the newest firmware and iTunes 6.0.2.23, both the 4G and 5G iPods are a mess.
Just for reference, all tracks I've been testing with are ripped directly from commercial CDs I own using Exact Audio Copy and LAME 3.97 - they all play flawlessly on the computer, in iTunes and other pieces of audio software, and they all play fine on the iPod when it is set not to display album artwork. My album artwork is normally ~500 x 500 pixels, and in JPEG format, so ~50-80 KB. So it is not insanely detailed, and iTunes is supposed to create all the proper sizes for use on the iPod so the iPod doesn't have to convert anything on the fly.

Good detective work....
Thanks for the heads up.
I just got a fifth gen Video 60g iPod and loaded my first tracts from my CD collection today.
After enjoying album art from my iTunes downloads I was a bit dissappointed my CD album art did not transfer with the selected CD tracks...but after reading your post...now I'm not so sure I want to struggle trying to get album art to transfer with my CD tracks...

Album art screwing up

Every time I download/buy something from the store through iTunes it will screw over half the album art up. If I download/purchase it through my ipod it doesn't mess anything up. The only way I have found to fix the problem is to restore the ipod, but that is getting old very fast. I have restored it 3 times today alone. and another 5 times since Sunday. There has to be another way to fix the problem. If there isn't then I have a 2nd gen iPod Touch for sale.

Hello Everyone,
Just a quick update regarding this problem. I have NOT solved this issue, and it seems that it is becoming worse. At this very minute, I am looking at my iPod that is plugged into the Apple Dock, plugged into the USB port of my Inspiron, and artwork that was complete (showing the full image of the artwork) just MOMENTS before, is now showing the same half-screen artwork.
I had listened to this song, while plugged into the dock, then decided to sync to put the newest podcast on my iPod, then upon returning to play the song again (in a playlist) the artwork is now corrupt.
PLEASE. If anyone with any insight to this problem knows of any way to stopthis from happening, or even to fix it, PLEASE let me know.

Serious Album Art Question!

here is the situation,
for the songs i have purchased it works perfectly,
however, for other songs that i have that i have applied album art too, even though when i select it in the iTunes the album art is the same for the whole album, for other albums it seems to pick other random album art for about 75% of the songs, this happened twice overall,
in that i have deleted all the songs and reloaded them twice so far and it still doesn't work
please help, feel free to ask any specific questions
Windows XP

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
So the wrong album art is showing up for some songs on your iPod?
Try this...
Connect the iPod to the computer. Go to edit-->preferences. Click the iPod tab. Make sure "Show artwork on iPod" is checked. If it is, uncheck it. Click ok. Now go back and recheck the option. Click ok. Wait for the iPod to update. Is the artwork now there and displaying correctly?
If not, then do the same steps again. However, this time, let the iPod update and then eject it once you uncheck the option. Then disconnect it from the computer. Now reconnect it and enable the option. iTunes should say "optimizng artwork for iPod"
If that doesn't work, you may need to restore...
Restore the iPod
btabz

Album Art Screwed Up

I have all of the correct album art set-up. All of the names and info is right. The album art is correct on the computer, however, when I go to my iTouch, the album art is messed up. It is taking other art from other albums and putting it in random other albums. it is also taking iMix art, even after the iMix has been deleted, and using it for album art. If I try to go in and erase and put in the correct art on my computer, it will fix that one album, but four other ones will have messed-up art. Any idea on how to help?

You need to re-build the artwork index on the Touch, which requires you to either delete all music and re-add it, or better yet, Restore the Touch and re-load your last backup (which also deletes music and re-adds it). This happens on occasion and is a nuisance, but an easy one to fix.

Podcast screwed my album art...

Ok. Yesterday, every one of my 233 songs had artwork. And everything was fine.
Last night, I "subscribed" to a podcast and downloaded some episodes.
But, today, artwork is gone on some of my songs, and I thought "display album art" must be checked off.
And..luckly, it was. However, after I checked it on, the same songs still have no artwork.

Sorry. This is just an obnoxious bump, but I would really like to know why this is happening.

Album Art is total screwed up

I have upgraded to 7.0.1. Yet the album art issue remains.
First of all, iTunes Store in some cases treats each single song in a single album as individual album, under the album view.
Second, my music library contains songs I imported from my CD collection. Although I can see a folder for the imported album art, somehow the album art does not get imported into iTunes.
Apple really needs to address this issue. I thought the album scrolling view is fantastic. But without album arts, the feature is useless.

try deleting the temp files, history of internet explorer, cookies and all. worked for me

Album art screwed up how to fix?

In preparation for getting an iPhone I installed iTunes 7.7 pointed it at my music directory (that Media Player 11 in Vista is using it, but with the "allow iTunes to organise directory" option off).
I told it to add all files in that directory and skip the WMAs just to see what it was like as I have some unprotected mp3s. It some how picked up some album art from some where (auto-download is off) but it looked all blurry - probably due to low res - so I right-click and tell it to download artwork and this does nothing, (on those missing artwork I got a nice good quality image). So I find a decent quality image on Google and try and paste it into the mini artwork viewer in the bottom left - which even had a paste option - but it doesn't update.
Please help how to get it to use newer artwork?
I've tried deleting the contents of the itunes/artwork folder but that didn't help.

Hi,
This is my British Keyboard layout
This is the same Layout using the ALT (OPTION) key as the Modifier.
This is the asme keyboard using just the Shift key
The layout tends to be referred to a QUERTY layout and is the common part of most Western European based langauges (as far as I am away and to the places those languages are now found)
From your first post it would appear that you have a AZERTY layout chosen.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY
From the Map on that page it would appear that you are listing the French option as the main choice.
From the System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources
It tends to show Upper case but it seems to fit with your first post.
9:13 pm Friday; February 28, 2014
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 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

ITunes 10.0.7.21 shows a white box instead of artwork for most of my albums. Many of these are albums I purchased on itunes. Also when I hit get album art it deleted the artwork it already had form many albums and says it cant find it.

OS is Windows 7
I updated iTunes the other day and I decided to run "get album art" and instead of finding artwork, it made some of the artwork I already had show up as white squares, or disapear entirely. The ones that are white squares show up under the get info, but not in itunes. I did click in view for show al artwork, no luck. Many of these albums I bought from iTunes. The ones that the artwork was deleted some albums I can buy on iTunes, but already owned, and iTunes found the artwork before, but now cannot. Some are albums that I spent many hours finding and adding the artwork myself. I am very frustrated. I cannot find the time to manually install artwork for thousands of songs.
My work computer is Windows 8, so I really don't want to hear windows vs OSX argument. My company won't switch to mac because you like it better, so I just need a solution to my issue. iTunes it has always worked better for me on my work PC than my macBook, I dont know why, but I don't take two laptops with me when I travel so I have my iTunes library on the PC that has to come with me. This is the first time an update has screwed things up for me.

Well my first guess was wrong. The line that failed is the one that writes out the image to disk. I've not revisited the code for that script for ages, but it seems I did add in an extra test for missing files a little while later, then forgot to upload the change. I can reproduce the error message if I deliberately rename a file to confuse iTunes so that seems the most likely reason for your problem with the script. I've uploaded a new build of CreateFolderArt which should work better.
See FindTracks for a tool to repair broken links. You should probably get that issue fixed first.
I know what SPSS stands for but that is all I know about it.
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This is definitely NOT your mother's Album Art Dilemma...

Alright guys, need some help. I was getting curious about winamp the other day, and I must confess, I left my beloved iTunes for a copy of my friend's Winamp Pro account. He put it on my computer and I sifted through all the problems that comes with using a new media player (some album art wasn't appearing anymore, some genres got messed up, etc) so I changed them all back to the way they were. About a week ago I was getting sick of winamp and wanted to get back to my old faithful iTunes. So I completely uninstalled winamp (started by going through the control panel uninstall, then noticed that the uninstall wasn't completely full, so I had to get advice from the winamp boards on how to completely uninstall winamp. Turned out I had to go into the system registry and delete some stuff, so I did so. Anyway, I THOUGHT I uninstalled everything... but it seems as though there's still a problem... I converted everything back to iTunes, and now some of my album art won't show up. So you're thinking: "Just select the songs, drag and drop the artwork and you're done," right? Wrong my friends. My iTunes was in pristine condition, everything was perfect. And now, for a few of my albums, the album art is no longer a differentiable parameter. In other words, I select all the songs from an album, click "get info," drag the artwork into the box, click "ok," and nothing happens... seriously... nothing. And I've tried going into each individual song and adding the artwork... Tried dragging the artwork into the lower lefthand box that shows album art (the one that says "drag album artwork here")... Pretty much tried everything...
So, if you decided not to read all that, here's the short version. My album art is no longer a tweakable parameter. After switching to and back from winamp, my album artwork simply does not show up for some albums, and iTunes won't let me add artwork in any way (trust me... I've tried 'em all). Any suggestions?
Oh, and also, one weird thing is that, for a short while, the album art would not show up in the cover flow mode, but it would show up in the lower lefthand box when the song was selected. After switching to another song, the album art "magically" appeared in the cover flow... hmmmmm.....
HELP PLEASE!!

I used to have this problem whenever I brought music home from work (co-workers would bring it in and I'd take it home on a flash drive).
I found that there was something in the ID3 from WMP-9 that iTunes-6 wouldn't get around so the artwork was unchangeable.....until:
I selected all the songs that I couldn't add art for, and then went to Advanced, and chose "convert to mp3 - now "create mp3 version").
One iTunes had made a new copy, suddenly I could add the artwork.
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Album Art in Chronological order

Ok so I finally got a Lion OS (whilst kicking and screaming) and thus involuntarily downgraded to iTunes 11. It looks nice but the more I use it the more I realize how impossible it is to customize or at least have a similar organization to my iTunes 10.
One thing I can't seem to do at all that is driving me nuts is I'd like to click on a playlist or an artist and see the albums and cover art in chronological order. List view is the closest it gets, my playlist is in the same order, but there isn't a way to view the album art anymore -- it should be a category at the top that can be added -- but it's not. Grid view looks nice but Apple decided I needed to always view these in alphabetical order -- no compromises -- not sure who decided that but they should not be on the UX team for iTunes anymore. Artist view is really annoying -- doesn't show details, breaks the tracklisting to two columns...
Seriously. All I want is to view my albums with a picture in the order I put them in.

Well, it's also more difficult to search this forum than it used to be. I couldnt find anything while searching, but this result poped up at the top of "More Like This" after I posted.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/20844035#20844035

Why is album art no longer viewable when viewing a playlist as a list?

I used to view my playlists as a list sorted by album by artist by year and the album art really broke things up and kept it manageable (put the album art on the leftmost column). Not even an option? Seriously feels like a downgrade. Impossible to find or sort my music. Program in general and search in particular are SUPER slow (and I'm running this on a Core i5 with 12GB of RAM.
Only real question I have besides this is how do I downgrade to the previous version? This is unusable.

I used to view my playlists as a list sorted by album by artist by year and the album art really broke things up and kept it manageable (put the album art on the leftmost column). Not even an option? Seriously feels like a downgrade. Impossible to find or sort my music. Program in general and search in particular are SUPER slow (and I'm running this on a Core i5 with 12GB of RAM.
Only real question I have besides this is how do I downgrade to the previous version? This is unusable.

IOS 7 music app does not display artist pictures and has incorrect album art after master reset.

Strange issue here. I did the update from iOS 6 to iOS 7, after I did the update, I noticed my synced music has just a random photo of the artist / group, that seems to be downloaded from the iTunes sites, because these pictures of the artist/group is not my album artwork.
I did a master reset on my device because I wanted to start from a clean slate, and set it up as a new phone. I went through and adjusted all of my settings and synced my music back on via iTunes, now its not showing these pictures any longer, infact, the strangest issue of them all.. is now when I view artists, the album that I synced now has a complete different album artwork picture that is not related to that album.
I am at a loss, my iTunes is extremely organized, I have everything configured to be 100% accurate for track names, artist, album, and album artwork.
Anyone have any input here? It only screwed up after the reset I did. This has to be a bug or something.

SiMooew469: Thank you! After countless wasted hours messing with this, your solution was the only one that worked! After setting up a few phones "as new" I noticed all the artist images would appear (for those that have one) even with my Match turned on. I could not duplicate it on my restored-from-backup iPhone5S, as I would get a mix of the images and album art, even for those artists that have profile photos on the as-new setups. I couldn't afford to lose all my text messages, etc. that come with restoring a phone as-new, so I tried about everything else under the sun: I tried logging in-and-out of my Apple ID, toggling Match on-and-off, I even deleted iTunes_control folder using iExplorer on a Windows machine. Nothing worked.
Here's what finally did:
If you don't have it set this way already, toggle "Group By Album Artist" in Settings->Music. For some reason that makes a difference for some artists in your library that appear when album artist is set to "Various Artists" or something other than the track's artist. Logout of your Apple ID. Log in with any other Apple ID. Open the Music app and watch all the artist images load in the Artisits tab. Once it is done, logout of the other Apple ID and login with your regular Apple ID. Finally, all the artist images will remain. Those artists that do not have a profile photo with iTunes will still show album art, which is by design. Hopefully Apple will keep updating that database.
Incidentally, it's a bit odd that those profile photos don't appear in the Artists view in iTunes 11...or am I the only one?

Album Art in Zen Vision M / How did you do

This question is for those of you who have actually gotten the Album Art to show up in the Zen Vision M.
I have been trying to figure it out for 3 days straight and I need some serious. My firmware version is .0.0 is this the right firmware?
I have made an attempt with WMP 0 using the Advanced Tag Edit, and I can get the Album Art to show up in WMP "Now Playing" tab, but when I sync to my Vision M, the album art does not transfer into it. I have tried, manually dropping the album art in several directories, the root / album / and photo directories but the album art does not appear.
I have even tried RealPlayer and a few Album Art programs on this message board and I get the same results.
So can someone provide me some set by step instructions or give me a link to where those intructions might be?

Hello all:
I have an idea for those who are looking to add album art:
I have yet to see if it works with the Vision:M (mine will be here next week), but I used mediamonkey to add album art to my mp3 catalog (,200+ songs). Its easy to do and you can add art to an entire album of songs at one time. It uses Amazon's database for album art. As long as you have things properly tagged its completely automated (It took me ~.5 hours to ad album art to my entire collection). It will also ask you if you want the picture to be embedded in the id3 tag (which as far as I know you do for the Vision:M). Finally, mediamonkey is a great Mp3 management tool. Its free and you can get it at www.mediamonkey.com.
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