Artwork behavior in Match

More artwork strangeness since subscribing to iTunes Match. The tracks sync works great, but the artwork is very haphazard, some tracks fine, others not. And very oddly, the artwork for a given track is visible in coverflow, but not in the single track view mode. The artwork is present on the track in iTunes, but a Match sync as well as a manual sync did not fix the issue.
I've tried cutting, deleting and re-pasting the artwork: no help.
Finally, powered the Touch off, restarted. Appears a Match sync took place, and ouilá, the artwork appeared in the right place.
Go figure.
John

Vernon Alexander wrote:
I have been doing a lot of research, and asking a lot of questions. So far, it seems that the only way to keep artwork for movies an music is if you have purchased it from the iTunes store.
Otherwise, forget about it. It ain't happening. iTunes does not like the "user" to add their own artwork to music from other sources.
I am still looking for answers, but iTunes does "phone home" and if the song of movie has not been downloaded from the iTunes store then there are no guaranties that it will be there the next time you open iTunes, and WILL NOT show on Apple TV via "Home Sharing".
Please correct me if I am wrong.
You're really not accurate.
I add custom artwork to video and music in iTunes all the time. The secret is it needs to be in the appropriate size and DPI for iTunes to properly display it. Artwork that falls outside of those parameters may not show up at all.
For music I have found that either 300x300 or 600x600 at 72 DPI always shows up on all my devices. For movies and TV shows 1000x1500 and 600x600 at 72 DPI repectively. These parameters also work splendidly with iTunes Match.
A good place to get artwork for video is <http://getvideoartwork.com/>.

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