Artwork doesn't transfer to new library

I just transferred my itunes library to a new mac. The old library has only .aiff files, new library imported them as .aac files which is what I want. But a good portion of the artwork is missing. All of my music was ripped from redbook cd's and my music is categorized by albums. On the new library, for albums with 2 disks, 1 will show artwork and the other won't - can't figure out why.
I then looked at my OLD library with the .aiff files. Artwork is visible for every album in album view, but when I click "get info" for any album, the artwork is missing. But EVERY SONG has artwork listed if I click "get info" on any song. Not sure if this is the source of the problem because ALL albums in old library have artwork embedded this way and some transferred and some didn't. Please help!

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