Artwork duplicated!

Is there any way to avoid the brainless duplication of album artwork in iTunes? I have about 10,000 songs on my iPod, more than half of of which have fairly high-res artwork (few hundred kilobytes per image, sometimes). Now say for example I have one album with ten tracks, and I add (manually) album artwork for all the tracks on the album (by selecting all the tracks > properties > adding artwork to the little box). Then instead of linking all the tracks to ONE image, iTunes seems to embed the artwork into EVERY track! What an idiotic waste of space. Now I have more than two gigabytes of space on my iPod (and on my PC) wasted on ARTWORK! And I'd imagine this slows things down a lot, too.
What a completely stupid idea! I'd be most grateful if anyone knows of a solution...thanks.

johan35 wrote:
Is there any way to avoid the brainless duplication of album artwork in iTunes?
Why embed hi-res artwork into media files when the applications used to listen to them (iTunes & iPod) have no use for all that detail? My image files are generally under 10kb and I've estimated on a number of occasions that the entire cost of artwork is an additional 0.5% of disk space over what would be used if I removed all artwork.
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Well, considering that Apple hasn't even acknowledged the problem yet, I wouldn't hold my breath. Don't get me wrong, I still love iTunes, but things have been getting progressively worse, not better. I’ve had more issues with this db in the last year, then I’ve had in the last decade.
I don't even use services such as iTunes Match, Genius, Shared Libraries, etc. However, I can understand those who do. But what annoys me is, don't alienate your long-standing customers in favor of half-baked services that compromise an already great product. A lot of us have huge libraries and spent years building them. When you start experiencing issues like purchased tracks vanishing w/o explanation, album counts that aren't even close, meta-data changing on its own when playing a track, and dozens of albums being split into 2 and 3 parts just because you made an update... well, sorry, but that's just slopping coding.
Here are just a few of the issues I've encountered within the last 12-15 months:
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I have tried deleting the duplicated artwork and adding its own but that doesnt help. I tried restarting iTunes as well.

Thanks for your help but its doesnt really apply to me.
Let me try to be more clear. I have 100 SINGLES that I have in an album that I named "1980 Top 100". I do this because I have 1981, 82, 83, 84..and so on.
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From those 2 tracks by Air Supply, they each are showing different artwork in their info. Coverflow seems to be grouping the artists.
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I have several MP3 songs for which I manually added all the correct information on the ID3 tags, includying their respective artwork.
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Same old problem. How can you manually add a single image for the whole album (as iTunes does when downloading it from the iTMS) rather than simply embedding it in every track file?
AFAICT, the short answer is you can't, but I hope it will change.
However, I have found a partial solution.
When artwork cannot be downloaded from the iTMS or it is the incorrect image (a common problem), find the image you want to use (or make your own) and embed it (i.e. paste it into an artwork display box) into the FIRST track that is listed for that album (which may not be 1 if e.g. that is missing). Actually, it may work with ANY single track, I only tried it with the first track.
This artwork will now display as the artwork for the WHOLE album when you view the album in iTunes as CoverFlow, or the one that lists the tracks beside the artwork (middle option). The bottom left corner of the screen actually shows what is in the file however, so that will only show the image for the track into which you pasted it (unless it was an iTMS download, in which case it shows for all tracks, even though it is embedded in NONE of them).
So, for the most part, iTunes now has the capability to display the correct artwork for all tracks of any album for which it cannot be downloaded from iTMS, yet still only storing a single copy of that image and not wasting the space of duplicating the data in every track for that album.
So far, so good. It is worth noting also that the actual track mp3 files take on the icon of any embedded artwork, so those that are 'empty' will still show the generic MP3 icon. Unless of course you have been able to download the artwork from the iTMS, in which case the icons of all the tracks will be set to that image. Clever stuff since the actual image is stored entirely somewhere else.
Ok, so how does this work when syncing to the iPod and playing on an Apple TV?
Of course, correctly downloaded artwork from the iTMS shows up correctly all the time, for all tracks (for which the Album Artwork has been downloaded) and at first it looks like the alternative of simply adding an image to the first track has the same effect, but it's not all roses. But please remember, it's not the quality to which I am referring. It is WHERE the image data is stored - in a separate folder if it's downloaded from the iTMS, or embedded in the actual file if you added it manually.
On the Apple TV, select an artist and all the albums show their artwork, even those with it embedded in ONLY the one track. Play ANY track and the artwork displays as it should. You cannot tell the difference between Album Artwork downloaded from the iTMS and images you have pasted into a single track (maybe not the one you are playing).
On the iPod unfortunately it's a different story. Viewing the albums of any artist shows the correct artwork for each album, even those with it embedded in just the one track. The Beatles is a good test here since there's NO chance the artwork can have come from the iTMS. Play the first track of one of these albums and the artwork is displayed as it plays, jump to the next track and it's blank. Of course, my first tracks contained the embedded artwork so I guess the track that does display the artwork is the one that contains the image data.
The issue here is that the Apple TV is able to make the same association between tracks of the same album and hence display artwork embedded in a single track for ALL the tracks of that album as iTunes does. And it works as a good alternative when you cannot download Album Artwork from the iTMS. BUT, the iPOD fails to do this when you are playing the album. Do the programming teams not talk to each other?
So, embedding the artwork in a single track is currently a partial solution. Let's hope the iPod developers catch up, or even better if they provide the ability to manually add Album Artwork by the same method as if it were downloaded from the iTMS.
As always, if anyone knows how to manually add iTunes style Album Artwork, I'd be delighted to know.

Sorry if I wasn't entirely clear in my previous post. Storing the same artwork in EVERY file for the album, i.e. duplicating the same data multiple times, is simply not an acceptable solution. If you want to keep the music in sync with an iPod for example, it is important not to waste storage space. In fact it is my belief this is exactly why Apple devised their Album Artwork storage strategy.
One album should have ONE piece of artwork associated with it (or several if they're different), applicable to ALL tracks of that album. Anything else is dumb.

Major problem: adding artwork alters music in mp3 file

I have a CD worth of mp3s in iTunes. I highlight all of the songs from that CD, then copy/paste (or drag to the artwork box). Then it updates all of the songs with this artwork, but after processing I always have a few songs that the artwork doesn't appear on. When I play those songs with the missing artwork, they always have a skip/stutter and restarts the song someplace between second 1 & 12 in the beginning of the song. I thought iTunes was just restarting the song, but you can see and confirm in other programs that the mp3 has been altered such that the first few seconds have been duplicated (ie. the song length also gets longer). Discovering this was difficult - kept on thinking that I had poorly ripped the albums (it's very annoying), but this isn't the case.
This has been happening for almost a year now. I've been hoping it would be fixed with all of the numerous updates to iTunes and since I haven't found others with this problem it makes me believe there's something "special" about my hardware. I have a lot of mp3s - 80GB from 13742 files in my iTunes library - and I keep them all on an external firewire hard drive.
I've learned to keep a copy of all my files so I can replace them after iTunes messes them up. I have to often try it multiple times before it works correctly. It's a ridiculous problem, but I rely a lot on my iPod so I can't see moving to another music player... yet.
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I downloaded Tag&Rename, took a CD worth of mp3s that were already in iTunes without any artwork, then redid all of the tags in Tag&Rename, then all of these tags were noticably updated in iTunes... but the same problem happened with the artwork.
Since Tag&Rename requires $ to get non-demo version in order to save artwork to the tags (or for some reason it wouldn't let me do it even after I saved the picture as a file), I did this again in iTunes. It was completely random which songs the artwork wouldn't "stick" to, and again those songs had errors in the first few seconds of play. I would replace a song with my backup, add the artwork, if it didn't stick, I'd repeat until it stayed. Very frustrating!
Lastly, I do wish iTunes had a way of "cleaning up" the tags if what you say is true - a shame that one would need outside software to do the relatively straightforward task of completing the tags. I tried this with several different CDs worth of mp3s that were encoded differently (though most of my stuff gets ripped from Exact Audio Copy).
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How do I copy artwork to iPod just once for an album, not for every track?

I don't download music. All my music is ripped from CDs that I own.
After I rip a CD, choosing "Get Album Artwork" from the Advanced menu normally works, and if not, I find the highest quality image I can from the web, and copy & paste that into the large box at the bottom left of iTunes.
It appears that iTunes stores the artwork image once for each track, not once for an album, so for example if an album has 10 tracks, the image is stored 10 times somewhere on my hard drive. This is inefficient, but not problematic.
However, when I (manually) select & drag-copy the resulting 10 tracks to my iPod, the artwork doesn't transfer along with the tracks. I then have to copy the artwork & having selected all the tracks on the iPod, paste it in. I have the "Manually manage music and videos" option selected, as I simply don't trust the automatic system. I want to supervise what is copied, when, and in what way. I don't necessarily want everything in my iTunes library on my iPod.
What concerns me is that for each album, the artwork image is stored repeatedly for each track on the iPod, like on my hard drive, not once for an album. As space will be at a premium on the iPod once I start copying more & more of my CDs across (I have only done 9 so far) the point will come where a large number of MB of space will be wasted on the iPod with duplicate artwork, which will mean that I'll be able to fit far fewer CDs on the iPod than would otherwise have been the case. The fact that I have chosen 192 kbps and the AAC Encoder for all my CD ripping also means that the iPod will fill up faster than if I'd used the standard 128 kbps and MP3 settings. I'm not prepared to go below 192 kbps though. My soon to be purchased Sennheiser CX500 earphones deserve that much!
Is there any way to force iTunes and the iPod to store the artwork only once for each album, and if there is, can this method be retrofitted to the CDs I've already copied to my iPod, or do I have to start again from scratch? I've already filled 670 MB with the 9 CDs, many of which are only 40 or 45 minutes long, so I'm already getting worried!
Alternatively, am I simply mistaken about all this? Does it only *look like* the artwork is duplicated, whereas it's actually only being stored only once?
Many thanks.

In reply to PT:
Why don't you paste the artwork to the track in iTunes first (fast) THEN send them over to your iPod?
I already do that. Every track has the correct artwork in place before I copy it to the iPod.
I ripped about another 10 albums yesterday. Most of the albums got their artwork automatically from the iTunes store. For a few I had to get artwork from the internet.
When I rip a CD, one of 3 different things happens:
1. The album get its artwork automatically from the iTunes store, and then when I shift-click all the tracks and drag them to the iPod icon, all the artwork transfers along with the tracks.
2. As per 1, except the artwork doesn't transfer when I copy the tracks to the iPod. I then copy the artwork from one of the tracks on the Mac, then shift-click all the equivalent tracks on the iPod, and right-click in the large box at the bottom left of the screen, and click on paste.
3. The iTunes store has no artwork for the album, so I copy the artwork from an image on the internet, shift-click all the tracks on the Mac, and right-click in the large box at the bottom left of the screen, and click on paste. I then shift-click all the tracks and drag them to the iPod icon. They all copy across, but the artwork never does, so I then shift-click all the tracks on the iPod and right-click in the large box at the bottom left of the screen, and click on paste.
Pasting the artwork to the tracks, in either scenario 2 or 3 above, takes ages (often longer than copying the tracks themselves) and a progress bar appears, listing each track in order as the artwork is added to the track, accompanied by the spinning beach ball. The slowness is mostly down to using USB 1.1, but for a 20 track album, it appears that the iPod is storing the artwork 20 times, once for each track, not just once in total (for the album).
It appears that in scenario 1 though, the iPod is only storing the artwork once.
In reply to Landon Dial:
well first you go to one track, right click and press get info. you go to where it says artwork, right click the image and press copy, then you exiit out of that. then you can press ctrl and select each song you want to have that artwork. if there highlighted then its working. then right click again and press get info. then go to artwork and press paste and it should have copied the image to all of your tracks
Thanks for your input, but you've completely misunderstood my question. I know how to add artwork to tracks. What I'm trying to figure out is how to force iTunes/the iPod to only store artwork once for each album, not once for each track, even if the artwork comes manually from me finding it on the internet, not automatically via the iTunes store.
In reply to Chris CA:
When iTunes gets the artwork, there is only one copy on your computer.
That single artwork is linked with iTunes to each song on the same album.
When you add artwork yourself, it is copied directly into the ID3 artwork tag for each song. If you have a 200kB artwork file, each song will be 200kB larger.
From what you say it sounds like there's no way to force the issue then. If you have to paste in artwork yourself, then it's one copy per track, not one per album. A serious flaw which I hope Apple will address!
Using playlists is very easy to manage what goes onto your iPod.
That's true, but I don't really have any need for playlists. I want 95% of what's in my iTunes library copied across (complete albums, with artwork). It's the remaining 5% (the odd individual track, amusing audio files, and other odds & sods) that I don't want copied. Copying things manually suits me fine, and I wouldn't consider another method unless it solved the problem that this topic is about!

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Artwork is messed up even for home-created movies - one of them shows a preview screenshot of the Warner Brothers logo instead of the picture I have in the Artwork setting in iTunes.

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I bought some songs on the ITunes Music Store, and I can see the album artwork on the ITunes, I can also see in my IPod the artwork for most of the songs that I've downloaded, but I CAN'T see the artwork for those recently purchased.
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Probably, the easiest way to resolve this is to copy the artwork from one song on an album and paste it into every song on that album.
In your iTunes Library, choose an album that has artwork issues; choose one track that has the artwork and copy it. Then:
the slightly longer method is to check each song individually, until you find the one with the missing artwork. Paste (the copy previously made) from one of the other tracks on the album.
a slightly quicker method is to highlight all the songs on that album (make sure it is just that one album) and paste the artwork into the box.
Sync the iPod with your iTunes Library.

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I noticed odd behavior yesterday. iTunes courses to which I've subscribed and fully downloaded are starting to replicate.   The course will be listed twice in the left nav bar, and duplicate classes/documents will download. This behavior is not consistent, with only a third of the 40 or so courses I have duplicating thus far. The duplication isn't just one university. I've seen it with MIT, Library of Congress, Yale. Sometimes the course has the exact same name and artwork, othertimes the duplicated course source is given as 'unknown artist'.
If I look in the iTunes library (under iTunes Media/iTunes U), only one folder for the course is given, but there are duplicated file names. E.g.,
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with the same file size, but one will have a creation date of yesterday, and the other has one when I originally downloaded it.
How do I get these courses (in case that is relevant):
I find something interesting in iTunes U and subscribe to it.   Normally, only one class will download into iTunes. I often have to then select the 'old materials' button to list other classes in the course, even though I have both download and keep as settings preferences for all episodes. And normally I then select to download manually all of the older episodes from the little cloud download icon next to each one.
If I delete one of the two courses listed, both courses disappear and are moved to the trash. This is confirmed by looking in the trash at the episode names, and is consistent with iTunes removing the whole course folder from its library. It appears that the duplicates happen when one file is added to the collection, or the modification date is changed on their server -- then the whole subscription duplicates.
Puzzling that this didn't happen to ALL courses, but was pretty consistant by school.
Is this because I am manually asking iTunes to download old materials?   Has anyone else seen this behavior?

I am also seeing this issue. Any updates on this?

HELP!!!! i duplicated all of my albums in iTunes by importing it twice.

Is there a free app that will clean up all of my duplicated songs in iTunes? I was trying to put just the new music files from windows media player and imported the whole library again by accident. Yikes!!! Still dont know how to do just new files but untill i figure that out, I dont want to sync my iPod and double things there too. some things of coarse are not doubled but its alot to go thru one by one. Anybody know the answer to my problem?

Have a look at Teridon's iTunes Scripts, Robert has a script in there for dealing with duplicates which might be of some help: Teridon's iTunes for Windows Scripts
Just note: The duplicate eliminator in Robert's scripts package only works for these two kinds of duplicates:
1) Multiple copies of the exact same file (e.g. "Song.mp3" and "Song 1.mp3", where "Song 1.mp3" is simply a copy of Song.mp3
2) Multiple entries in the iTunes Library for the exact same file.
The script does nothing for duplicates that are the same song, but different files (e.g. encoded by someone else, has different artwork or other tags, etc.)
There are also some third party programs out there, like "Dupe Eliminator" (not free however)) that might help in more complicated cases. If you do a quick web search I'm sure you'll find more (possibly free): Dupe Eliminator

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