Album artwork not appearing on Apple TV

Album artwork not appearing on Apple TV anyone with same problem or fix

Bilk you're not alone! No Album Art work will load on my Apple TV now, despite having artwork for ALL my albums, my iOS devices display the the artwork (iTunes Match) I live in the UK. (Virgin Media customer) I've had nothing but problems since the last 2 OS updates, I have 3rd and 2nd gen Apple TVs, both now have the same problems, I have done full restore on both devices, still doesn't work. I hope Apple fixes the software soon.

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Album artwork not appearing

first time poster so bear with me here. heres the situation. when i click "get album artwork" for some songs, it doesnt work. at all. for example, i uploaded the cd "catalyst" , by new found glory, into itunes and the album artwork didnt come up. i searched itunes store and found the same cd, but it still doesnt work. the artist, album, song name, composer, album artist are all the same, no spelling mistakes or anything. it happens with alot of my music. can anybody help? im running 7.1.1.5 if that makes any difference
HP Media Center Windows XP

sorry, I'm not much help, i,m in the same boat. Some albums have artwork appearing immediately while others don,t want to know at all. Going to spend another hour clicking things, and if it doesn't work it's going on the BBQ

Album artwork not appearing on all album tracks

Hi,
I have a problem with my iPod 5th Gen 60GB. Not all the songs have cover art, although the cover art is visible in all songs in iTunes. The pattern seems to be that the first couple of tracks of an album show cover art when played/selected, but the remaining tracks have missing cover art.
Some background info. The problem started after I upgraded from Tiger (OS X 10.4) to Leopard (OS X 10.5). I didn't do an actual upgrade, but a clean install. After Leopard was installed I restored my iTunes Library and everything looked and worked fine. After I synced my iPod I soon discovered the problem of the missing artwork.
Based on suggestions on this forum I have tried several things to try and remedy the problem, but have not been succesful yet. Things I have tried:
1. Unchecked the option in iTunes for including cover art on your iPod. Synced. Rechecked the option and synced again.
2. Performed a factory reset of my iPod. Synced so that my complete library was placed on my iPod again.
3. Deleted the Album Artwork cache directory.
4. Configured iTunes so that the currently selected song's cover art was displayed in the little preview window at bottom left. Cycled through all the songs in my library, hoping this would do some black magic voodoo stuff with my library or cache.
The only thing I haven't done yet is to completely delete my current library and create a new one and import all the songs again. Needless to say, this is my last resort, because it's going to take a lot of time (my library location is actually on a Samba share) and it means I will lose all my song ratings.
Does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Edit: I'm using iTunes 8.1.1

Note: You do not need to buy a song from the iTunes Store to use the online downloadable artwork for that song. You probably know that, but just in case...
If you have manually added artwork to songs, I believe it overrides any downloaded artwork. So as a test, you should select an album (one where the artwork does not appear on the iPod). Select the songs, right click, and +Get Album Artwork+. First, see if your manually added artwork still appears in iTunes. If you get the downloaded artwork showing up instead in iTunes, you can just give the +Clear Downloaded Artwork+ command; your embedded artwork is still there and should show up. I remember trying this to see what happens, and the manually added art had priority in iTunes (but that was a while ago).
If iTunes still uses your manually added artwork, try syncing to the iPod now. See if the downloaded artwork appears. If it does, at least you have album art. iTunes converts album art into a database format that is optimize in size and resolution, to take up the least amount of space possible on the iPod. Maybe there is something about the artwork, for the ones currently missing on the iPod, that prevents the conversion for some reason (too high resolution?). In that case, redoing everything probably will not help, if you are using the same artwork images.
Another thing you can try is to pick a song that does not have artwork on the iPod (but should). In iTunes, right click on the song. Select +Get Info+. In the Info window, go to the Artwork tab. Click on the artwork image and Delete to remove the artwork. iTunes should no longer show artwork for that song.
Sync the iPod.
Do a +Get Info+ on that song again, and go to the Artwork tab. Drag the artwork image you want to use as the album artwork from a Finder window, or from a web browser window, and drop it onto the artwork area in that iTunes song Info window to add it.
Sync the iPod again. See if this re-added artwork now appears on the iPod.
If that works, you can manually delete and re-add the artwork for the songs that do not have artwork on the iPod. Unfortunately, you cannot do the delete part for multiple songs at the same time (as far as I know). You must sync the iPod when there is no artwork in iTunes for the songs in question; you can do several songs before syncing. And you can re-add (at the same time) for a set of songs that have the same artwork, by dragging the artwork to the bottom right corner display on the iTunes window (instead of the the +Get Info+ window for a single song).

Collection album artwork not appearing in iTunes U PSM via feed

Hi,
I uploaded a new collection to iTunes U via public site manager in the same way I always do but for some reason the Collection image is not showing on the landing page or the collection page. It all works fine on my feedburner feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/PhotographySymposium2011 but not at http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=446661118
I've tried deleting and restoring both the feedburner feed and the iTunes U collection page but to no avail. Any other suggestions would be most welcomed as the site now looks a little shabby.
Cheers,
Chess

I'm not 100% sure about this but I think read somewhere that iTunes U images should be 300x300. Your image is 320x320 so perhaps try resizing the image.

ITunes 7 Errors/Glitches and Album Artwork Not Displaying on iPod

Looks like a lot of people are having problems with the new iTunes 7. After downloading iTunes7 and the new ipod updater, and having iTunes go and get the album artwork I was missing, some of the album artwork that displayed in iTunes would not display on my iPod (Gen 5). Very weird. I then tried to follow the suggestions on this board to deselect the "display album art on ipod" (in the Music tab of iPod preferences) so that I could then reselect and resynch (which supposed to fix the problem). It was very difficult to achieve this, as iTunes repeatedly had problems recognizing my ipod (even though it was sitting there in the source list). Managed to somehow get it to work, only to discover that while some missing album artwork had been added to ipod and properly displayed, others that had been there before were now gone (but were fine in iTunes)!!! And trying to repeat the deselect/reselect steps only resulted in more error messages ("The Settings were not saved for the iPod ___ because it could not be found." and "iPod update failed. disconnect and reconnect, then try again.")
I happen to have Apple Care for my iPod. Was on phone for ONE HOUR with rep who, while friendly, had no idea what was going on.
Okay Apple, I hope you're reading this, PLEASE FIX THE BUGS. I thought I escaped the problems of buggy software releases when I switched from Microsoft to Apple.
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UPDATE on previous posting:
Okay, with help of previously mentioned Apple rep, I uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes 7 AND restored my iPod G5. After resynching my 5000+ songs, ALL the album artwork not displaying per previous posting is now displaying. HOWEVER (and Apple employees please take note here), when I tried to change the iPod settings AT ALL (e.g., deselect Synch Movies, TV Shows, Games, etc.) and then select APPLY, same problem!! So it appears this is where the problem lies. Somehow making any changes to these options and then hitting Apply causes the error ("...iPod could not be found" etc.) My workaround (since I am not intending to use iPod for movies or TV shows or games) is to change the Main Menu listings in Settings so I don't have to see them.
APPLE: PLEASE STUDY AND FIX! Thank you....

"album artwork not modifiable"

after upgrading to version 7 it seems that the albums in my library have randomly been designated as "album artwork not modifiable" , making it impossible for me to even manually add the artwork.
any help appreciated.

For some reason, iTunes 7.0 is converting songs to QuickTime Movie files when it imports music into your song library. I'm not sure how to fix THAT, as it may be a bug with iTunes itself.
Instead of reverting to 6, try converting the file to something other than a QuickTime file (control + click or right-click and select "convert selection to xxx"). Once the file is converted to a format other than a QT movie, you should be able to save album artwork on that new file. Just delete the original (apple + i for the information screen to confirm that you are deleting the right file).
I just tried it myself, and it looks like this should work until Apple fixes iTunes 7. I've never seen iTunes import files as a QuickTime movie. I assume this is only a problem for MP3 files, because I tried importing an AAC file and it worked just fine.
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**** everyone,
My problem is the following: I started to create little webpage with iweb. At the moment it just consist of a photo gallery, one blog entry and one video. To test it I published itto a folder on my hardisk and the website worked perfectly. So I uploaded it to my server (I have no .mac account). When opening the site over the internet the start page looks perfect, as well as the video page but on the album page the album doeas not appear!!!
The URL is: www.voyage64.com just click on "Photoalben" (it´s a german page) and there is just nothing, There should be an album which also appears in the page published to a folder on my harddrive.
Another thing that does not work is the blog. When you enter "blog" you will see the list with one entry listed, that works fine on the web but if you click on that entry it tells you that the file was not found on the server but it is there, this also works on the published folder on my hardrive. The confusing thing is: I´ve another website on my server with a blog with more entries that just works fine.
Maybe it´s something with the RSS because I tested other stuff and whenever the RSS logo is visible in the adressfield in the browser something does not work. I actually don´t need any of that RSS stuff but there is no way to disable that.
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I followed the topic concerning the Firefox photoalbum problem but I´m using Safari and the albums will not show up on the web !!!! I also exchanged the detailview and headercontrol *js which worked fine for opening the photoalbum on my harddisk with firefox. But when its uploaded to the server it won´t display and that in Safari!!!! On the published folder on my harddisk everything works fine
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just cklick on "photoalben" no album apears. Does anyone have the same problem with safari ???
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Updating Album Art, when iTunes says "Album Artwork Not Modifiable"

How can I go about updating or adding album art when the Artwork area at the lower left corner of iTunes says, "Album Artwork Not Modifiable"? Every effort to add the artwork from iTunes has failed. When I paste the album photo from another site, it doesn't save.

I figured this out. I found that the folder and files only had "read" privileges and not "read & write" privileges. I did the following:
1. In finder I right clicked the parent folder for iTunes and selected "Get Info".
2. Selected my user and changed the rights to "read & write".
3. This step is the most important. With my user still selected in blue, you click on the options "cog wheel" below the users, at the bottom. Select, "Apply to the enclosed items". It may ask you again if you are sure, say "yes". By doing this you will apply your users "read & write" privileges to all folders and files underneath your iTunes folder.
This worked for me and I wish you the best!

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I've seen this problem with certain MP3 files. However, this is now happening with some other songs that are AAC format. Can someone help me?
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The option is not available; it says the Album Artwork Not Modifiable. Why not?!
The files are read-only or non-writable for some reason. Album Artwork is added to the files themselves, and if they're read only, iTunes can't add the artwork.
The reason it works after you convert the file is because the new copy of the file is not marked read-only.

Album Artwork not modifiable - why?

I'm having problems with my Podcast (channel) album art. It's a 300 x 300 jpeg, 72 dpi, but iTunes is telling me that its not modifiable. I've tried different file names - still doesn't work. Is there a colour depth limit? If so what is it? And is there a nice easy way to convert it using PSP7?
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The option is not available; it says the Album Artwork Not Modifiable. Why not?!
The files are read-only or non-writable for some reason. Album Artwork is added to the files themselves, and if they're read only, iTunes can't add the artwork.
The reason it works after you convert the file is because the new copy of the file is not marked read-only.

Album artwork not modifiable problems

I can get album art from lots of places, the problem is I tunes will not let me put in. keeps coming up with album artwork not modifiable I'm not trying to modify anything. I just want to put some album art in. Is there a way around this ?? I tunes is pretty good most of the time, but sometimes it makes a person want to just go sit in a corner and eat dirt..........
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Ah, okay. Well, if you are trying to get artwork by using that handy "Get Album Artwork" feature of iTunes, it is likely that you aren't going to get some art because the iTunes database doesn't have every album under the sun.
So here is what you do: 1) Run a Google image search, or something similar, and find the artwork online. (If you own the album physically, you can always scan the artwork into your computer yourself if you have a scanner.)
2) Save the artwork to your hard drive (make sure it's a jpg or other common format).
3) Open iTunes, and select all the songs in an album that you wish to add the artwork to (should be highlighted in blue), right- or ctrl-click on the selection, and select "Get Info." You will probably get a "Do you want to do this?" window, so hit "okay."
4) You should see a section in the lower-right corner of the new window that says "Album Art" or similar. Double-click on that empty space, and navigate to the file you just saved on your hard drive.
5) Select the art, hit all of the okay buttons you need to, and let iTunes process it.
Voilà, you have album art.
Peach

Album artwork from iTunes Match not appearing on Apple TV

Album artwork has disappeared from iTunes Match on Apple TV anyone with same problem or fix

Welcome to the Apple community.
According to Apple's knowledge-based articles, iTunes match is not available in Belgium.
The terms and conditions of using your US Apple ID states that you must use this service within the boundaries of the US.

IPhoto album not appearing on Apple TV

I just created a new album on iPhoto.
The new album appears in iTunes - "Choose Photos to Share" and I checked this particular album; however, the new album is not displayed on the Apple TV.
All my older albums are displayed on Apple TV, but not the new one.
Thanks for your help.

Try quiting iPhoto or restarting iTunes, or turning the Apple TV off and on, or basically anything to close and re-open the homeshare connection.

Album Artwork not backed up?

So I recently got a new hard drive and did a fresh install of SL with a restore from Time Machine. I noticed that all the album artwork that wasn't downloaded automatically by Apple seems to have disappeared. I spent a whole lot of time going through my library online and finding album art through wikipedia and whatnot and am fairly annoyed by this. I guess this is more of a statement than a question, just beware if restoring from time machine that you may lose some album artwork in iTunes.
Does anyone happen to know if that album artwork may be stored somewhere and maybe it is just that iTunes needs to know where to look? That would be very nice.

Regarding the backup issue, if you go into your My Music folder, there is a folder called iTunes. Provided you allow iTunes to organize your library for you, copying that folder, and then pasting it back into its original location (following the OS reinstall) should restore everything in iTunes. Granted, it doesn't always work, but it's likely your best shot.
Backing up/restoring playlists:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93763
Once you reach 5 authorizations, iTunes will provide you with the option to "Deauthorize All" which deauthorizes all computers that are authorized for use with your account. Bear in mind this option will only appear once you've reached 5, and can only be used once a year. One thing you can try is repeatedly deauthorizing iTunes (Store > Deauthorize Computer) until it says that the computer was not authorized, and then re-authorizing it. This will sometimes do the trick, depending on the extent of the maintenance/repair that was required on the PC. One more option is to contact iTunes Store support to see if they can help you out:
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/browser/
BTW - Authorizations effect only the computers you can put your purchased music onto. So, iPod's don't count towards authorizations... iPods can be used on an unlimited number of computers, however, they can only accept music from 5 different iTunes Store accounts, and an unlimited number of iPods can be used on any one computer.
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Album artwork not showing on iPod touch 5th gen

Hey guys,
I really need help on this. The issue has been bugging me the last several weeks and it is driving me nuts.
After I updated my iPod touch to 6.1.3 as well as itunes on my windows to ver.11.0.2.26 (or the one before),
I could no longer add album art to any of the new songs I add to my iPod.
The weird thing is that album arts are there in itunes under get info ---> artwork,
but they just never show on the actual screen of iPod touch no matter what I do. I tried to hit the sync button,
remove/add the songs back to itunes again, even restored the iPod touch but didn't do a thing. Now all the previous songs' artworks are gone.
I like to organize all songs manually so are all the artworks. I google the image and copy/paste to each song by going under get info ---> artwork
Tried to get album artworks using the itunes feature but since some of the songs I have are foreign songs, so it wouldn't work either.
I also don't use library to organize my music since I have some duplicates and they just look really messy in library.
I simply just drag and drop music on the iPod itself.
Is anybody out there having the same issue? I called Apple and they had no clue to why.
It worked perfectly fine until the last update. Now I am really regretting the update. All the songs are now showing nothing but music
note on the screen with title and artist name.
Help will be appreciated!

Glad to know I wasn't the only one with this issue.
As an update to my issue, the album artwork all the sudden reappeared on my iPod yeasterday.
Still don't know the actual cause or what actually got itself fixed but here's how I did:
- Back up your iPod first. Since I didn't have much to lose on my iPod, for those who have alot of stuff on there should promptly do so just in case.
- Go to this link: http://www.doctorchewy.com/album-artwork-woes/
and follow the procedures.
- Some people might get the album artwork back working properly again by the end of the procedure above, but it still didn't work for me so I suspected it was itunes so I uninstalled the itunes from my PC and reinstalled.
- It still didn't want to show album artwork after reinstallation so instead of synching it to the PC, I used my Macbook (OSX 10.6.8) and downloaded the older version itunes (10.7) through here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1576
- It still didn't show after days followed but while I almost bang my head against the screen, I figured
that go to get info------> artwork, click add, select the image file, click ok, and if it still wouldn't show;
click on the image and delete the image. Repeat the previous step once again, and it should start synching to your iPod after hitting ok. If it doesn't sync automatically, hit sync and voila. The album artwork should once again, show on your iPod like before.
Again, the process is somewhat hectic but hey, it works now. I'm still hesitant to sync with the newest itunes though. I don't know how my iPod was able to sync with a PC and my Macbook but I was able to manage and keep all the stuff, minus the music, before the problem occured. Let me know how you guys did.

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