Album Artwork in Finder

Hi all,
I have multiple instances of missing artowrk when music is viewed in Finder, even though the artwork displays propoerly in Itunes. This means that any music transferred to USB sticks for playing in my car do not have any embedded artwork.
I have tried creating new Itunes Libraroies but the problem seems to perisist, but not in all cases. I have had some success using the re-embed Artwork Script from Dougs Scripts (http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=reembedartwork) but even that now seems unable to do some albums?
This is massivley annoying and i am coming up against a brick wall - any ideas most welcome. I am running latest version of Mavericks and Itunes.
Thanks

Here's why you see what you do.
When you "get artwork" through the iTunes store... You get a file that's stored in your Album artwork folder, and iTunes writes a "reference" to that file, so that when you play the song in iTunes, the artwork shows. One or maybe two tracks will actually get the artwork "embedded" so it also appears in Finder.
Problem is... when you put tracks on a USB drive and plug it into your car stereo, there's no folder for the track to call on to get the artwork, because it's on your computer.
Solution:
"Embed" the artwork into EVERY track so no matter where you play it, the artwork is actually part of the metadata of the file itself.
If you have a really big library, I suggest you buy MPFreaker. http://www.lairware.com/mpfreaker/
It can add (embed) artwork to about 50 tracks at a time. Granted it'll take a while with a library of 40,000 tracks like mine, but your other option is to select an album at a time in iTunes and "Get Info" to paste it yourself.

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