Album art still won't show up in finder

I've seen this questions posted once before, but no one had a solution.
I've learned how to rip CD into iTunes using ALAC.  I don't mess with the folders.  I just let iTunes do its thing.
Once the CD is ripped, I open the list of songs, hit "select all", click "get info", click the artwork box, and drop in a jpeg.
Within iTunes, all is well.  The cover art shows up.
But within finder, the thumbnails are sporadic.  Sometimes I get all songs embedded with the new thumbnail.  Sometimes only a few of them have the artwork, the rest have the generic iTunes artwork.  And right now, my latest album has no artwork showing up all.  I've also done the process three times, with no success.
Again, within iTunes, the artwork appears.  In the finder window ... not so good.
Can anyone help?
Or is this a bona-fide bug that Apple has not yet fixed?
-JOHN

Your comment omit a point, you focus on itunes but the Finder is involved too here. I haven't seen in your post that you mention you get the info on each mp3 or other format in the Finder, not in itunes. This can fix the thing in the Finder and if in the file info panel you don't see the cover then it's not in the mp3.
The second point I notice is that you aren't using the same manipulation to add the cover than I do. You should try like I do :
I double clic on the cover file, this opens it in the viewer. Then select all to select the picture, copy and then paste in the area where you are used to drag the file. As I already mentionned the problem is to duplicate the cover inside each mp3 of an album, but that way the cover is right into the file and the Finder or itunes or any application knows where find it in the file.
The third point I notice is that you are using ALAC but I never use that format, only mp3 and few m4a (aac). Perhaps there's specific problems with ALAC files.
About a problem from age it's more about people that use itunes to download the cover but itunes never added it in the mp3. Then the user copy the file elsewhere but without any cover. Myself I do notice that often because I buy many CD and few albums on itunes and then itunes get automatically the cover but doesn't store it in the mp3/aac. Then I copy the files on another drive where I have a more organized music and then notice the mp3 don't have anymore the cover if I haven't done the manipulation I mentionned above.
For a file named cover.something in the same folder than a track, it's not a standard allowing knows what's the cover for the mp3.

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