Artwork for albums

is there any way to set the artwork for an album if itunes cannot find an album cover?

if you can't find the album covers you want from automatically from iTunes you can get them from various other sources and add them manually as described above. I find this site is a good source of artwork: CD/Album Cover Art Search from SlothRadio.
Alternatively there are programs like these that help locate artwork: iTunes Art Importer or MP3 Tag

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ITunes Get Artwork: "Artwork for [album name] cannot be found. You do not have permission to access the requested resource."

I just installed iTunes 10.5 (latest version as of 11 Jan 2012), onto a computer running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I loaded my music library into it, it compiled the list and separated them by album. But even though I'd assigned most of the albums artwork through my Zune management software (a Microsoft product), almost none of them populated into iTunes. So I went through and started asking the software to try to find album artwork where possible.
I did this a few times album by album, then I decided to select multiple albums and see what happened. No problems. Then I selected all of the albums I had--about 600 in all--and asked it to get artwork. It seemed to process for a bit, then came back with the error, "Artwork for [album name] could not be located. You do not have permission to access the requested resource." I tried this on several individual albums, only to receive that same error.
The very first time I did it, I was told I needed an account with the iTunes store to make it work, so I signed in using an old Apple ID (the account had been inactive for so long it had been locked for security, I unlocked it and that seemed to be that). Then I did what I described above.
The weird thing--to me--is that I can still add artwork to the albums manually if I want to, from imagery stored locally on my own computer. The only thing it seems to have a problem with is when I ask it to go find artwork from the iTunes store.
Do I need to uninstall iTunes and then reinstall it? Did something go wrong with the process of authorizing the computer to work with the iTunes store? Do I need to de-authorize and then re-authorize the computer? Could this be something related to Windows permissions on the iTunes library?

Right on about how to reset the warnings, it was exactly that.
I went through the steps to let iTunes through Windows Firewall, but still get the same problem when I access the iTunes store (and even though I followed the steps in the help file to the letter, I notice it still says iTunes is NOT enabled for it). And now, thanks to the re-enabled warnings, when I try to get it to download artwork for single albums, this is what I get:
"Artwork for [album name] could not be found. An unknown error occurred (-50)."
New results from the diagnostics too:
Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Ultimate Edition Service Pack 1 (Build 7601)
Acer Aspire 8930
iTunes 10.5.2.11
QuickTime 7.7.1
FairPlay 1.13.37
Apple Application Support 2.1.6
iPod Updater Library 10.0d2
CD Driver 2.2.0.1
CD Driver DLL 2.1.1.1
Apple Mobile Device 4.0.0.97
Apple Mobile Device Driver 1.57.0.0
Bonjour 3.0.0.10 (333.10)
Gracenote SDK 1.9.5.502
Gracenote MusicID 1.9.5.115
Gracenote Submit 1.9.5.143
Gracenote DSP 1.9.5.45
iTunes Serial Number 0034AA84038F17E0
Current user is an administrator.
The current local date and time is 2012-01-13 09:21:52.
iTunes is not running in safe mode.
WebKit accelerated compositing is enabled.
HDCP is supported.
Core Media is supported.
Video Display Information
NVIDIA, NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT
**** External Plug-ins Information ****
No external plug-ins installed.
The drive Q: SEMC CD-ROM Rev 0001 is a USB 1 device.
iPodService 10.5.2.11 (x64) is currently running.
iTunesHelper 10.5.2.11 is currently running.
Apple Mobile Device service 3.3.0.0 is currently running.
**** Network Connectivity Tests ****
Network Adapter Information
Adapter Name: {403AFC2C-1FCE-43B2-B9E8-D414B29FF5D1}
Description: Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN
IP Address: 10.100.3.244
Subnet Mask: 255.255.248.0
Default Gateway: 10.100.0.1
DHCP Enabled: Yes
DHCP Server: 10.100.0.1
Lease Obtained: Fri Jan 13 09:00:56 2012
Lease Expires: Sat Jan 14 09:00:56 2012
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8.8.8.8
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Description: Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller
IP Address: 0.0.0.0
Subnet Mask: 0.0.0.0
Default Gateway: 0.0.0.0
DHCP Enabled: Yes
DHCP Server:
Lease Obtained: Thu Jan 01 04:30:00 1970
Lease Expires: Thu Jan 01 04:30:00 1970
DNS Servers:
Active Connection: LAN Connection
Connected: Yes
Online: Yes
Using Modem: No
Using LAN: Yes
Using Proxy: No
SSL 3.0 Support: Enabled
TLS 1.0 Support: Enabled
Firewall Information
Windows Firewall is on.
iTunes is NOT enabled in Windows Firewall.
Connection attempt to Apple web site was successful.
Basic connection to the store failed.
An unknown error occurred (-50).
Connection attempt to Gracenote server was successful.
Last successful iTunes Store access was 2012-01-12 07:09:14.

Any idea where artwork for albums is stored, please?

Hi,
Does anyone know where the latest version of iTunes stores artwork for albums.
I am running it under 64bit Windows 7.
I know I a bit thick today but that's because I have been working all night. I just can't see where the artwork is being stored.

The Album Artwork folder should be inside your iTunes library folder. It breaks down into Cache (cache of embedded images), iCloud Purchases (images for purchases not on your computer) and Download (store art that hasn't been embedded). The next level identifies the library (you can store multiple parallel .itl files in the iTunes folder, but I wouldn't). Below that is a hash table structure of nested folders. The art itself is stored in iTunes' custom .itc2 files.
What is the problem you are trying to resolve?
tt2

How much does it cost to get the album artwork for albums I already have?

How much does it cost to get the album artwork for albums I already have?

here are the costs for a new battery:
The costs for a new MBP are substantially higher than a battery.
Ciao.

No artwork for albums in the cloud

I have a mac which hasn't got my music stored locally but I use iTunes match to play almost all my music however hardly any albums are showing any artwork. The artwork is present on my phone and gets downloaded straight away if I download a song from a particular album.
I've tried the Library > Get Album Artwork but that only gets artwork for locally stored songs. Anyone know how I can get the artwork to show? My albums view on iTunes is looking pretty dull.
Thanks

Hi Pete,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like album artwork is missing from some tracks or albums on your iPhone, and the music was downloaded from your iCloud library. The article linked below has a lot of great suggestions that will resolve most issues like the one you’ve described.
iTunes Store: Troubleshooting iTunes Match
Some songs or albums are missing artwork
If some songs or albums downloaded to an iOS device from your iCloud library are missing album artwork, try the following:
Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes. You can download the latest version for free.
Launch iTunes on your computer.
From the iTunes menu, choose Advanced > Get Album Artwork.
Once iTunes has completed processing the album artwork, you'll need to update iTunes Match.
From the iTunes menu, choose Store > Update iTunes Match.
Once iTunes Match has finished updating, launch the Music app on your iOS device.
Locate the songs or albums that are missing artwork, and delete them from your device by swiping left or right over a song. To delete an album, swipe left or right over the album on iPhone or iPod touch. To delete an album from iPad, tap and hold on the album cover until you see the delete button or "X" in the upper-left hand corner of the album cover. Tap the "X" to delete the album.
After you've deleted the song or album, download the item again from your iCloud library by tapping on the download icon.
I hope this helps.
-Jason

Cannot Download Album Artwork for Albums I Know Exist on iTunes.

Hi.
Recently I decided to clear all of my album artwork. I selected all of my albums and right clicked on an album, selected "get info," checked the box next to "artwork," and clicked "ok."
With all of the albums already selected I successfully downloaded all of the art except for 20 albums.
For some reason I cannot download the album artwork for twenty albums I know are available on iTunes.
Any help would be much appreciated.
-Thanks

when you right mouse click on a song do you not see this?

I Can't Get Artwork For Albums

Hello Folks,
I am new to this forum and did a search but didn't find any results pertaining to my issue. I just bought a new Ipod Classic and am now in the process of importing numerous music cds that I have collected over the years. In that process I am finding that when I select "get artwork" from the menu in Itunes, it is not getting all of my albums artwork. Can anyone help me with this one? The albums I have are not that old that they would be so out of date, I don't think.
Any help would be appreciated.
Jim

jmhlincoln wrote:
Ok, so if I understand correctly, I want to look for one at a time each album that I don't have artwork for on the ITunes Store sight to see if they sell it, then change or match what they call the album and tracks exactly to what I have in my library? Then after doing that re-request the artwork search again? For those that I do not find for sale at the Store, then I can do a Google image search on those? If so, can you give me some details on how to do an image search on Google?
Visit images.google.com and enter the album name (and the artist, if it's not a distinctive album). You can also look for artwork at Amazon and Wikipedia.
It seems odd that when I now request the artwork download that the albums that are missing are not old, that old, so it must have to do with the exact matching of song names and title.
It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the age of the CD — the iTunes Store only sells music they have the rights to. There are thousands of popular and recent CDs the Store doesn't sell — Radiohead and Garth Brooks, for instance.

Any Programs That Help Design Artwork For Album Covers?

I am making an album and i need an app preferibly from the AppStore that helps me create my Cover for my Music Album. What i need is an app that edits a picture that i will take and make the background all red except for the person standing infront of it, and so i can be able to put words in the picture too. These pictures need to be 1000X1000 so it doesn't look blurry, are there any apps that can help me design my Cover? If there aren't any from the App Store, then where can i download it? (No Photoshop i know it is good)
Thanks!

My son ran into a similar problem recently. He downloaded the iTunes update which unbeknown to us altered his 'import CD' settings. He imported some CDs he received for Xmas but could not add artwork. After much head-scratching etc., I noticed these new files were .wav files so I converted them to AAC files (Advanced/Create AAC version) then deleted the .wav files (and changed his preferences back to the way they were before). He could then add the artwork as described avove.

Cover Flow Artwork for Albums is Dysfunctional

Artwork on Cover Flow view displays as a jumbled plaid-like distorted picture. I tried reinstalling and repairing, but that has not solved the issue. Anyone know of a fix for this? Running on Windows XP.

I've had this problem for a while now & finally figured out is was a problem with a driver, that I'd updated.
My graphics are controlled by an SiS Mirage Graphics chipset and when I update the driver it screws up cover view. I rolled back the driver and that fixed it.
Driver that works okay is 6.14.10.3830.

ITunes does not show album artwork for FLAC files

I add FLAC music files to iTunes via Fluke which works perfectly.
Then I add the album artworks to the albums as usual (select all songs/right click/get info/info/then drag and drop a previously downloaded .jpg file). The artwork is visible in the Artwork column, in the Cover Flow but not in the right click/get info/info/artwork.
Which would not be a problem itself, but I use a Logitech Squeezebox Duet and on the controller there is no artwork for albums with FLAC files.
It is only with FLACs, MP3s work fine.
Any idea, what is it all about?
Thanks!

I knew that.
That was really my question how to solve it if there is a workaround.

ITunes 10.0.7.21 shows a white box instead of artwork for most of my albums. Many of these are albums I purchased on itunes. Also when I hit get album art it deleted the artwork it already had form many albums and says it cant find it.

OS is Windows 7
I updated iTunes the other day and I decided to run "get album art" and instead of finding artwork, it made some of the artwork I already had show up as white squares, or disapear entirely. The ones that are white squares show up under the get info, but not in itunes. I did click in view for show al artwork, no luck. Many of these albums I bought from iTunes. The ones that the artwork was deleted some albums I can buy on iTunes, but already owned, and iTunes found the artwork before, but now cannot. Some are albums that I spent many hours finding and adding the artwork myself. I am very frustrated. I cannot find the time to manually install artwork for thousands of songs.
My work computer is Windows 8, so I really don't want to hear windows vs OSX argument. My company won't switch to mac because you like it better, so I just need a solution to my issue. iTunes it has always worked better for me on my work PC than my macBook, I dont know why, but I don't take two laptops with me when I travel so I have my iTunes library on the PC that has to come with me. This is the first time an update has screwed things up for me.

Well my first guess was wrong. The line that failed is the one that writes out the image to disk. I've not revisited the code for that script for ages, but it seems I did add in an extra test for missing files a little while later, then forgot to upload the change. I can reproduce the error message if I deliberately rename a file to confuse iTunes so that seems the most likely reason for your problem with the script. I've uploaded a new build of CreateFolderArt which should work better.
See FindTracks for a tool to repair broken links. You should probably get that issue fixed first.
I know what SPSS stands for but that is all I know about it.
tt2

Downloading artwork - "could not get artwork for some albums"

This might have been addressed before, but I browsed the forum and couldn't find a thread. Sorry if it's been gone over several times.
I live in Turkey and I've added albums to my iTunes. I checked the box in the Get Info next to Artwork and I selected Get Album Artwork from the Advanced tab. It scans through all the albums and then says "could not get artwork for some albums." "Some" albums means all of them actually. And the error tab details say "artwork not available." I also tried getting artwork by right clicking on a single album but I get the same error. Before it was a 609 error. Now it just says not available.
I logged out of the store, quit iTunes, loaded it again, re-signed in to the store and tried to get artwork that way, but got the same result. No artwork. The albums are things like Let It Be, Allman Brothers, Ella Fitzgerald... Albums that should certainly have artwork available.
I'm using Windows Vista.
Has anyone had and conquered this problem? Any ideas on what I should do? I have 300+ albums, so getting the cover art from wikipedia would be a bit tedious. I'd appreciate any help anyone can give!

Hello, Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Are your songs from Audio CDs or iTunes Store? If not you may need to manually find the album artwork for them as these songs may not be listed in the iTunes Store database for your region.
iTunes: Album art may not download properly
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1815
iTunes will only download album artwork for songs that it can find in the iTunes Store. iTunes will check each song in your iTunes library and attempt to match it up with a song in the iTunes Store. If the data matches, iTunes will download the album artwork from the iTunes Store and add it to the song in your iTunes library. If iTunes does not find a particular song's artwork in the iTunes Store, you will not see an alert message. iTunes simply does not download artwork for that song.

How do I change artwork and album name for a playlist?

I can't figure out how to do this:
I like to make cd-length playlists (essentially "mix cds") with songs that I own. I make new artwork for the mix cd, and for categorization, I like to change the Album Name and Album Artist to whatever I've named the mix (i.e., "songs about trains").
However, if I do this, the individual songs no longer appear with their original albums, since I've changed the info on them.
So essentially what I want to do is make a copy of the songs. I don't mind if they take up extra space on my hd. How do I do this easily?
I know I can just burn the cd and rip it, but then I have to rename every single song, which is a pain.
Is there an easier way? I imagine many other people like to make mix cds like me...
Thanks.

The reason I need to change the file name is we want the breadcrumbing name to change and the breadcrumbing is linked to the file name.
I don't understand this reason. How would changing the file extension solve your breadcrumb issue? Why don't you explain the issue in more detail.

Is there a way to have one main cover artwork for an album that has artwork for each song?

For example The Fall by Gorillaz has unique artwork for each song but when I'm in album view it only shows the artwork for the first song not the actual cover of the album. I'm wondering if there's a way for it to display the actual album cover in album view and the artwork for each song when it's actually playing.

Generally all you need to do is fill in an appropriate Album Artist. For more details see my article on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic One album, too many covers.
tt2

How can I get ITUNES to display manually added artwork for each song regardless of the album name?

I have been manually adding artwork to my songs. When I click the Show Artwork check box, it doesn't show the cover art. For example some greatest hits albums have different cover art per track. ITUNES picks one of the cover art and shows it for the entire album grouping.
Anyway around this? I want the added cover art to display per song.

The artwork of each individual track does display during playback, in the small thumbnail at the top of the iTunes window, or at the left of the MiniPlayer control (opens by clicking the thumbnail), or the larger artwork panel that is shown if you click on the Show Large Artwork control in the MiniPlayer. It should also display on any iPod or iOS Now Playing view.
The Up Next list uses the album art (usually cover of the first track) for everything from the same album, which is perhaps a shame, although in general one artwork per album makes sense.
tt2

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