Album artwork not getting on my iPod nano?!

I tried everything to get my artwork to show up on my iPod nano. I read every topic in the forums about it and I did what people said to do and it still isnt showing up. The album artwork shows up in iTunes but not on my iPod. Can anyone help me?

Cheers,
same here. I have downloaded artwork to iTunes and after that synced music to iPod (nano 4g) manually. But artwork doesn't show either when playing the music or in the coverflow. Don't even know whether the artwork was downloaded to iPod (is there a way to check this?) Seems to be so common problem, so hopefully Apple fixes this or gives instructions how to fix it.
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