Album Covers Missing

All my album covers show up in Itunes but when I do a backup/sync on my iphone I lose quite a few album covers...I can get them back by restoring to factory settings but the next time I do a back up it takes away the album covers again....any advice on how to get this to stop happening?

I also have album covers missing. I imported all my MP3 songs into itunes as well as downloading new songs from the iTunes shop. I have multiple albums from the same artist, eg The Deltones and some albums have missing artwork, eg Walk like a Man = OK, Tickled Pink = no artwork. Both were purchased as a CD. 3 Neil Diamond albums = no artwork.
Those albums with art work display OK.

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Yes but there's no point doing it here. As the Terms of Use make quite clear this is a User to User forum. It's Users like you talking to other Users. It's not a channel to communicate with Apple.
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I just completed the software update for iTunes 7.6.2 (9) and now all my album covers show an icon with a broken chain. When I click on album cover view iTunes crashes.
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Hi,
I 've been having the same issue.
One thing I noticed was that it seemed to be like the missing albums were the ones purchased with a different Apple ID (mine but from a different country)... Then I realized that (as you said) it was rather arbitrary since the recently bought ones are either missing or just fine.
But most purchased with a diff ID are missing album covers.
I myself have 4 country IDs since I lived shortly in diff places.
I wish Apple was less constraining regarding this, but I guess it's got to be due to the music houses' rules and conditions...

Music album covers miss-match

I'm really bothered by the fact that my music album covers don't match the actual album. What can I do to fix it so they do match? Has anyone else had this problem?

That happens for some users:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync/delete all music and resync
To delete all music go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage>Music>Tap edit in upper right and then tap the minus sign by All Music
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

Since iOS5 update, album covers missing

A couple days ago, I upgraded to Lion and also udated my iPhone4 and iPad to iOS5. Today, I synced the iPhone4, then made changes to app layout and applied changes. When iTunes was running to apply the changes, I saw a message under the sync status bar that said "updating album artwork." It appeared to be updating all of the artwork. I went back and added a few pdfs that I wanted to sync and applied those. I again saw the message "updating album artwork." So, I checked the phone and about 95% of my albums don't have any artwork.
I rebooted the phone and synced again. Same message and still almost no album covers.
I don't keep music on iPad so no other device to compare to. All album covers are in iTunes library.
Is anyone else having this issue? Any ideas on a fix other than a full restore?

Found a fix. Had to uncheck Music in iTunes to remove library from phone. Then rechecked Music to reload library. All album covers appeared.

Preview Album covers missing in screen saver mode

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Yes, the same for me as well. The image only appears when I press the menu button and exit the screensaver. Furthermore, the (now larger) image takes a second to appear when normal it appears instantly.
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2 Questions:
1. In my library on my computer, I have all of the album cover, but 1 (I manually put in most of them). But when I sync to my Ipod, I am missing 3 album covers.
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2. One of my songs in my library wont let me manually add an album artwork to it.
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They are part of the song file. They don't disappear
unless you delete the song file and add it back
without the artwork.
Right click - get info and click on the Artwork tab.
Is the artwork there?
No - Still Missing - I havent deleted any of the songs and then add then back. Just woke up this morning and many were missing.

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Well the album names certainly show up correctly in banshee. But I guess it may have retrieved this information from the itunes library somehow, rather than metadata in the mp3s. (Most of my music collection was originally ripped from my own CDs with itunes, so I don't know whether that implies that it would not contain metadata.)
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Missing Album covers in iPhone/iPad (iTunes 11)... anyone?

I was hoping with the update to iTunes that this problem would have been solved- i was WRONG.
It's entirely disheartening that a problem that has existed for quite some time now continues, and not just with my iPhone 4 but also with my brand new iPad mini!
I'm noticing it seems completely arbitrary as to which album cover is missing- both ripped and bought albums are missing their artwork when I transfer over...a nd some retain the cover art (and yes they exist in iTunes- I'm pretty anal about keeping my music all sorted).
I've read the dozens of fixes that either work or don't work for any given person.
How can Apple allow such a glaring bug to continue?
Sigh...

Hi,
I 've been having the same issue.
One thing I noticed was that it seemed to be like the missing albums were the ones purchased with a different Apple ID (mine but from a different country)... Then I realized that (as you said) it was rather arbitrary since the recently bought ones are either missing or just fine.
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I myself have 4 country IDs since I lived shortly in diff places.
I wish Apple was less constraining regarding this, but I guess it's got to be due to the music houses' rules and conditions...

Missing album covers in coverflow

Why is that the album art missing in the coverflow but they appear in the album tab and they it shows when listening to a song? It's only missing in the coverflow.

This could be a permissions problem. See Repair security permissions for iTunes for Windows for details.
If not here are some tips for the new version...
The iTunes 12 Get Info dialog lacks right-click context menus (at least for now) but it still accepts most standard keyboard shortcuts and drag & drop actions.
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Or, you can drag & drop to, or sometimes from, the same locations.
You can also copy artwork from the Get Info dialog to Windows Explorer with the keyboard shortcuts.
If the source image is on a web page right-click and use Copy Image rather than copy. (With Chrome I get a one pixel wraparound so tend to go for a temporary local copy anyway - not sure whose bug this is, but it isn't new.)
If you have multiple images embedded drag the one you want to be the primary artwork to the leftmost position.
Replace/Remove All Artwork
The top left image box can be used to add or delete art from multiple tracks. In either case all existing artwork in all tracks is replaced/removed.
Old Style Get Info Dialog
Select some items, right-click, hold down shift, then click Get Info from the context menu. (Use alt/option on a Mac)
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Album Artwork missing from Iphone 3GS after upgrading to IOS 5

I just updated my phone, and the majority of my album covers have gone missing.
Is this because I do not keep any of the albums on my Itunes (lack of storage space)
Can anyone help with this?

when i first upgradexd to 5.1 (last friday) my personal hotspot was also gone - i tried all the suggestions i could find on these forums but nothing worked - mysteriosly it just cam back today - and i havent done anything like a sync or reset - im wondering if it was something the phone company did (in my case ATT)

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I've just recently re-installed my Windows XP, re-installed iTunes, and re-installed all my music again from my back-up discs. My iTunes is working fine ie plays the music, searches, displays iTunes store etc. However, when I click on the Cover View icon when playing an album it states, 'iTunes unable to browse album covers on this computer'. The album covers show up in the list/album view but not in cover view. It didn't do this before. Maybe it's something simple I've missed - any ideas?

Does this article help?
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If it's a relatively small number of songs, select the song or songs (with missing album artwork) in the iTunes music library listing. Right-click on the selected song(s) and select Get Album Artwork.
If you want iTunes to go through your entire music library, select Music under LIBRARY in the iTunes sidebar. From the menu bar, under the Advanced menu, select Get Album Artwork. Don't do it this way, if you have some albums where you added artwork that you selected yourself, because they may get replaced.
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Hello, after Restoring to new (to clear up an issue with excessive "other") and updating iPod 5 to iOS 7.1, which corrected issues, I have found an odd glitch with music. Four album covers are missing when viewed in tile mode only. You see them otherwise when viewed any other way, everything plays as it should, it's just there not there in tile view mode, what you do see is black background with white letters telling you the album title and artist name. Have tried powering down, soft reset, Reset All Settings. Going into get info and tapping get artwork. Erasing effected music and syncing albums back into iPod. Erasing entire music library and then reinstalling, and Restore from backup. The same four albums do not appear in tile mode. All effected albums were purchased through iTunes. As far as I know the only other thing to try is the Restore to new, is there something else to try? Thanks.

Sorry Illaass, been there, done that. No joy! Used the suggested method to delete before posting this. (Picked it up from you when you helped someone else with a similar problem-- it worked for them, but not with this one). It's kinda looking like restoring to new? (Please tell me something else... It's such a pain.)

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