Album artwork goes blurry in iPhone

When I browse my music in coverflow, there are times when the artwork will suddenly become slightly blurry. Did anyone else encounter this? And what's the reason behind it?

Yes, I did encounter the same problem. and I think it has to do something with update 1.1.1. well.. all that said, The problem is solved by changing the coverflow to normal view and change back to coverflow.

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I'm totally stuck can anyone explain how to transfer the album artwork on to my iphone 4? I don't understand why it won't copy .. I've downloaded the covers and its updated in my itunes but not on my iphone 4
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I have the same problem, can someone please explain solution?

Album artwork not displaying on iPhone 5 iOS 6.0.2

I recently took the plunge from Android and got myself an iPhone 5. One thing that's driving me nuts is album artwork in my music library. I have two problems
not all albums will display artwork on the phone despite being present in iTunes and WMP/Media Monkey.
when artwork is displayed on phone, when music is playing the wrong artwork is then displayed.
I've tried different ways of synching, auto and manual. I have also tried replacing the artwork in 'Get Info' (time-consuming and tedious when artwork is already there). Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Frustratingly, if I am successful one day, the next time I synch I am back to square one with no artwork.
I wouldn't use iTunes if I didn't have to...I had none of these issues with Android/Creative.
I am using a Windows 7 laptop, iPhone 5, IOS 6.0.2, iTunes for Windows 11.0.1.12. The issue has been present since day one getting this phone.
Does anyone have any tips, ideas or similar experience of this issue?

You could try activating it while connected to a different wifi network. You could also see if your router has a firmware update available and changing your router's settings to use Google's public DNS to see if that helps (see https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using).

When I auto-update, album artwork goes bye-bye

I have album artwork for all of my songs on my iTunes. If I upload the songs manually to my iPod, all the artwork shows up. Then if I add a song or two to the iTunes library and then choose auto update to update the iPod to match my music library, all the album artwork disappears. Does anyone know what is going on here??

Lee,
You need to have your computer connected to the Internet in order for it to find the track info for a CD - it accesses the online GraceNote database to match song profiles. Only if your music isn't already there (which is very unlikely) will it not come up with something.
For the album artwork, it is not contained on the CD itself. You need to search for it. Most people find it on Amazon.com. Click until you get to the big (~300x300) image, save it and edit it on your PC, then drag and drop it into the box in iTunes where it says "drop album artwork here".

ITunes album artwork randomly removed from iPhone after sync.

iTunes 12.1.0.50. IOS 8.1.3. iPhone 5. 23GB free space on iPhone.
Album art is randomly removed from iPhone after sync. This seems to be new to the recent version of iTunes.
Removed and reinstalled all music. No help, problem still occurs.
Restored iPhone as a new iPhone and reinstalled all music. At first, all artwork was installed, but on later sync, random artwork was removed or missing. Problem reoccurs.
This appears to be a bug in the software somewhere.
Anyone having similar problems?

welcome to my world....
i have had this at least three times now in the past month.
I too had to do a factory reset and set up a a new phone.
i read an article about it being a known issue and something to do with duplicate tracks causing it to hang during sync. it then fills up the available space with the dreaded "other" data and hey ho you have no music.
have a look at this, hope it helps and hope Apple get it fixed as it is affecting a lot of people
http://robservatory.com/a-nasty-little-itunesios-bug-may-be-causing-media-sync-i ssues/

Can you choose whether album artwork goes to a particular iPod?

I recently got an 80GB iPod and have been updating artwork on my 11,000 or so songs. Obviously, I want the artwork on my 80GB where it's viewable.
I don't, however, want artwork transferred to my two older iPods, where the photos just uselessly take up memory.
I don't see a setting where I might be able to turn the artwork on/off for individual iPods.
If I have artwork on the 80GB, am I stuck with it on all my iPods?
Thanks.....Carl
80GB iPod...and others

As far as I know, you are not able to do select which iPod gets the artwork.

I downloaded some albums using my iphone, i then synced it with my PC. Now all the album artwork has gone from the songs i downloaded on my iphone, but not on the itunes on the pc. How can i get the artwork back on my iphone?

I downloaded some albums using my iphone (3GS), I then synced it with my PC. Now all the album artwork has disappeared off my iphone but not off itunes on the PC. How can I get the album artwork back onto my iphone?

I had the similar problem last night and found a solution (although it takes more than a few clicks). Highlight all the album tracks in itunes on the pc and right click "get info". Check the artwork box in this window. I found that the now playing art was showing up in the itunes window, but on songs that were missing artwork showed nothing in the get info box. When I replaced the artwork by using the artwork command, or manually adding it into the "get info" window. It was annoying but my iphone updated every album.

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So I have a very strange album artwork issue with my iPhone 4. I've verified that the artwork is correct for the songs this is occurring with (each individual song, not the albums).
When I play certain songs (only certain ones) I get a mosaic of incorrect album artwork.
http://gallery.me.com/jsagurton#100012/Album%20Artwork&bgcolor=black
I've again verified that in iTunes the album artwork is correct, and even copied the correct album artwork file to my desktop and then changed the artwork for this particular song to the correct artwork and resynced the device, and the issue still happens.
The issue also happens in coverflow, if the song I'm playing has the weird album artwork. Once I scroll to another album though, the artwork goes back to the correct artwork in coverflow. Going back to the standard view brings back the incorrect artwork however.
What's even more bazaar about this, is the mosaic isn't always consistent. A bunch of songs do this, but have different album covers making up the mosaic, and I have nothing in iTunes with a mosaic of artwork like this.

I have the same problem and posted a request for help but no-one has replied with an answer. It annoys me greatly that APPLE will not assist and in fact want to charge me $29 to even look at the problem, when it is their buggy software that is at fault.
Looks like we are destined to be screwed by APPLE over this.

I have blurry artwork in Album View thumbnails. Deleting the cache makes all the artwork sharp, but once iTunes is restarted, the artwork goes back to being fuzzy unless i delete cache again.

I have blurry artwork in Album View thumbnails, but not in Grid View/Cover Flow. Deleting the cache and forcing it to rebuild makes all the artwork sharp, but once iTunes is restarted, the artwork goes back to being fuzzy unless i delete cache again.

Responding to your request here.
I can't say it's a problem I've noticed personally, though now you've made me look it does seem that the large thumbnail is slightly fuzzier than the same image in the artwork panel. I have the artwork panel as small as it goes (small screen) and it is still slightly larger than the image in the browser so that might be all there is to it.
Here's an example from my screen.
Perhaps iTunes is storing a thumbnail at say "medium" size which it then blows up to create the large image. Are you seeing a similar effect or is your "fuzzy" art much fuzzier? A screenshot would be helpful.
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Can't manually add album artwork through iTunes 10.5 on an iPhone 4s

Ok, heres the deal - (and this is a weird one)
I have iTunes 10.5, windows xp and a new iPhone 4s. I am missing multiple album covers so I just find high-res ones on google and save them in preparation of manually adding them to the album via iTunes. The way I do this (and have always done this) is by highlighting the whole album, right clicking and going to 'get info'. Then I go the bottom right corner where it says "Artwork" and double click to open the folder of all my highres album covers. I then choose the correct album and click on 'open'. The artwork box stays BLANK no matter how many times I choose a cover and open it. So then I wait for it to sync the non-cover to the iphone...which doesnt work because its not syncing anything but it thinks it is. I then have to DO THE PROCESS ALL OVER AGAIN to make it work. Generally it finally takes the album cover after the 2nd time. Generally.
Now heres the thing, sometimes it just hangs up on the title at the top of the screen, the status bar. It just says "Updating Files On 'Derek's iPhone' ("preparing to update" is the sub text) with the little candycane status bar running across. It may do this and hang for a good 3 minutes EACH TIME!
So I have to go through multiple albums, one by one, manually syncing album covers 2 times in a row since it never works the first time and hope that it doesnt hang too long and just time out, which it has done multiple times before. If it doesnt work the first 2 times, then I'll try 3 or 4 times but then it will just time out, not saying any error or anything but it just wont transfer the album artwork. I'll look at my phone and the cover is still blank!
The only way around this, that I've found, is quit iTunes and unplug the phone and start the whole process over again for EVERY. ALBUM. and btw, I have about 40 albums to do this to.
So all this music came from cd's a while ago, I just dont want to pay for the iTunes version JUST to get the album cover since I already have the music.
At this rate, it would take me a few months of non-stop syncing to finish.
And on top of THAT, a few weeks back I made some serious headway on this and almost got finished to the "S" albums (listed alphabetically), checked my phone, all the covers were there. Then about a week later, plugged my phone back in and noticed that AAAALLLL the work I did in the past was GONE! I had to start over from the "G" albums. And thats where I'm at now...
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Syncing music freezes iPhone and erases album artwork

This is ridiculous, I just bought the iPhone 6 and updated iTunes to the latest version (I'm on Windows 7). I try to sync new music and iTunes refuses to do so. Instead, it deletes all of my album artwork and just freezes while trying to sync. I added 3 songs to the library, but it says it's syncing 1 of 7 and just doesn't do anything at the first song (not the song I added, old song). Anyone know what is going on?

iTunes 12.1 is very unstable, as is iOS 8. There are just bugs with music management and syncing, simple as that. I have run into a number of issues, especially since 12.1. Music doesn't sync over at all, the device's library gets corrupted, album art disappears, etc.
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I posted this question weeks ago, surprised Apple hasnt communicated a fix/solution to date - Had a iPhone4, with ALL artwork in tact.....upgraded to the 5, and only a portion of the artwork came over on the synch. I manage my music manually, and 99% of my music has been purchased on iTunes. There has to be a simple reason, accompanied by a simple solution. Anyone? It has long past being an annoyance, its become infuriating.

This is what I figured out I went back to my itunes 10.7 on my MBP and all my album artwork that was not showing up on my iPhone 5 was showing up in coverflow on my MBP but after closer exam the ones missing from iphone 5 actually were missing from the selected item pane or the drag artwork here area so I downloaded and added my art by going to just the ones that were missing from that or you can get info on selected track and go to art tab and add it there after doing that on the first 25 missing I synced the phone and they all came back. Still don't know how they got stripped out of itunes in the preview but not the coverflow but I guess that's for the Geniuses at Apple to come up with. Apple please don't remove coverflow and Album art people love that dont screw it up
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IPhone iPod "Artist" Menu Selection - Album Artwork

How come in the new iPod on the iPhone when I am inside the "Artist" listing for my music, it shows completely random artwork from previous/newer albums of artists I have? This was never a problem before, but its ridiculous to have different album artwork for an artist when you don't even have the album that the artwork it is showing. Apple, fix this...

OH MAN. This. I have the same gripe/problem.
I can only assume it is pulling the artwork from the iTunes database.
However, I have proper album art set for everything in my iTunes Library. What I don't want is some horrible software design decision ruining the experience of browsing & listening to my music.
Going to file this as a bug report. Not sure what on Earth the team was thinking with this "feature."
The worst part is, when instead of an artist photo, it pulls down a random cover of one of the artist's albums and uses that! This one album by this one artist that I have on my iPhone, since it does not have an artist photo, uses cover artwork from an entirely different album than what is loaded.
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I've been having a problem with the album artwork that displays as a thumbnail when you open the music app. For all the albums which contain music videos, a snapshot of the video appears to be replacing the normal artwork for the album. However when I open the album to view the tracklist, or actually play any of the songs in it, it displays the correct artwork as it did before the problem arose. So the issue here is simply with the thumbnails that display in the album menu of the music app.
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It gives you the ability to use multiple computers to manually add your own music, i.e. music you have legitimately acquired, to your iPod. For example, I have 2 computers, I manually manage my music on my iPod Classic so I can hook it up to my MacBook Pro and put songs on that I don't have on my Mac Pro.
I also has a car that will go much faster than the speed limit. Just because it gives me that ability does not allow me to drive 120 mph on a local street.

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