Artwork won't sync.

a whole album's artwork got erased on the ipod, but it shows up on itunes. it won't sync. what do i do to get the artwork on the ipod?

i just did that, and everything's back to normal. thank you so so much!

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Some artwork won't sync...

Some of my artwork I downloaded from iTunes won't sync to my iPod. I've tried updating it a lot but it still won't work. Does anyone have any ideas??

Does a reset help? Press and HOLD the "MENU" and middle buttons together for 10 seconds. It may take several attempts to work (this may not be your solution, however).
Have you tried doing this?:
1. Connect your iPod.
2. Click on its name in the left source panel of iTunes.
3. Under the "Music" tab, un-check "show album art on iPod".
4. Safely disconnect your iPod from iTuens, then unplug it.
5. Reconnect your iPod. This time, re-check "show album art on iPod", disconnect the iPod, and see if anything changes.
If these attempts don't work, you may want to try restoring your iPod. Read more about the restoring process in this Aupport article -> Restoring your iPod to Factory Settings
I hope that helps you.
-Kylene
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HT1386 album artwork won't sync

Album artwork shows up on my computer, but when I execute a sync, it does not show up on my iphone

yo
umm
if you go into itunes
left click on your song
then it comes up with all it's info
on the far right it has artwork
find the artwork on the internet then copy and paste it there
i don't know if that is helpful at all?

After updating to 8.1.2 my iPod won't sync and all artwork is missing

Has anyone else experienced this - updated to 8.1.2 this weekend, now iPod (5th gen) won't sync with iTunes on PC (skips straight to Step 4 without doing anything). All my music artwork is now missing too?

Correct sync settings are verified. Not sure why I should need to back up and restore - it synced fine before the "upgrade" to 8.1.2. Obviously I can reset/restore when I have time to do so, and hopefully that might work, but why have Apple released an upgrade that made my device unfunctional?

Album artwork won't can't sync

this is a new ipod
which when i try to sync come's up with the message "cannot sync. file cannot be found."
but if i tell the ipod not to transfer album artwork it will sync no problem.
ovbviously i want the artwork though.
i've done the following;
1. restored ipod
2. re-installed itunes
3. deleted my photo cache
4. made sure there are no other usb devices plugged in
5. ran the regsvr32 file
i've also tried updating the driver but it says it can't find anything
please help
thanks

yo
umm
if you go into itunes
left click on your song
then it comes up with all it's info
on the far right it has artwork
find the artwork on the internet then copy and paste it there
i don't know if that is helpful at all?

Apple iPhone 5 running iOS 6.0.1 won't Sync all Album Artwork, some missing

Since upgrading to iPhone 5 running iOS 6.0.1 from an iPhone 4 some of my Album Artwork won't appear or show up. I've read many other Apple Community Forums about the same similar issue however haven't found a resolution to the problem. I hope to make this public and find a way to fix it. All my music is 152kbps at 44100Hz and every album is fully ID3 Tagges along with all accompanied by an album artwork of exactly 600x600px. I cannot understand why some (about 10 - 12) albums artwork won't appear.
Please help! Any appreciated, thankyou!

I have the same problem. Had my phone replaced today and still doing same thing.
Only thing different lately is that Telstra unlocked my phone

ITunes won't sync music to iPhone 6 Plus

On my old 5S 32GB I had iTunes Match turned on.
I just got a 64GB 6 Plus, set up by restoring from my 5S iCloud backup. Since I now have 64GB of space, I decided to have all my music locally again, so I turned off iTunes Match.
I plugged my 6 Plus into my Mac and told iTunes to Sync All Music. I have about 20GB (3600 songs) of music, and I set iTunes to convert it to 128kbps when syncing, so I expected it to take a while. The blue bar at the bottom (Audio) indeed showed I'd now have 20GB of Audio on my iPhone.
However, the sync went really quickly, and when I checked my 6 Plus, there was no music on it.
I plugged it back in, and the blue bar had gone (i.e. saying there was no audio on the phone).
I restarted Mac and iPhone, tried again. This time it seemed to be taking ages to sync, so I went to bed and left it. I got up this morning and sync had finished. I checked my phone, and all my albums are there, but there's no artwork, every song is greyed out, and has a Stop button next to it.
Any idea what's going on?
iPhone 6 Plus running 8.0, Mac Mini running latest OS X 10.9.5 and latest iTunes 11.4. Note that iTunes Match is not, and never has been, enabled on the Mac Mini.

I am having the same issue. My new iPhone 6 plus, with iTunes Match, will not sync with my macbook pro. I keep getting a message stating the sync failed due to some songs not authorized for my computer. All of the songs were purchased under my account. So it won't sync. I need to sync my tones to my phone and I can't. I am up to date on all software updates for both.
Did you find an answer to your problem? Has anyone else had this issue?

Greyed Out Tones and Music. Tones won't Sync.

After restoring my new iPhone 6 from backup of an old iPhone 5 via USB, I added my tones and music to my phone. I have manually manage music checked off. When I checked my phone, I noticed that not all of the songs were there. I preceded to download a few new alert tones that day.
When I plugged my iPhone back into my computer and attempted to add the songs that weren't there, I noticed that a lot of the music that I had put on my phone was not showing as On My iPhone and that a bunch of greyed out songs with a grey circle icon next to them appeared as if the sync didn't finish. I deleted the greyed out songs, added the songs that were missing and then synced. The greyed out songs reappeared.
In order to get rid of the greyed out songs, I tried a bunch of the tricks I've seen on the forums. I unchecked manually manage music and resynced. I even restored from a backup. The grey songs still appear. Now, the tones that a recently downloaded appear greyed out as well. When I try to manually transfer them to my phone, they won't sync. Anything previously purchased before the backup is able to be deleted and re-added with no issues.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Using iPhone 6 with iOS 8, Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64 with iTunes 11.4.

I have the same problem now and had it in the past. I had this on my 4s for more than a year. And hoped it would go away with a new phone.
Yesterday i bought my iphone 6, restored from backup. Was able to add a few songs (about 50) without issue. Then this morning i began adding about 6 gbs of songs and though it said it finished copying them I ended up with greyed out entries. I also got an error "56" something saying "can't sync." I've also had this problem accompanied by my iphone not being able to show the proper embedded art. and i mean the art actually part of the file not just in a folder. It simply wasn't reading the file. It was reading an incorrect directory of artwork that was associated with the wrong song for some reason. But i digress.
I fundamentally think the problem is our backups are bad. I've read before that completely erasing the and reverting to factory settings fixes it. Personally, though painful i'm going to do that. I took a risk choosing not to do that yesterday. I think something is corrupt and all i've done, is copy bad settings to a new phone. Because, i haven't factory reset my phone since i first got the 4s.
In the past i read tons of threads. I've read possible causes are unplugging during sync but i haven't done that as i've had this phone one day. I've tried full reinstall of all itunes, multiple versions of itunes from 10, 11, 12 etc. The problem remains. I've fully removed EVERY ounce of itunes even the hidden files and it didn't fix the problem and eventually the problem reoccurs. In fact even when i've gotten it to sync the greyed files the problem eventually occurs.
Some things i've tried that have helped. 1, through itunes, delete some greyed songs. That once got it to wake up and it copied the grey songs. Again the problem did return. 2, delete all the music on the phone and copy it back. Always had the problem reoccur.
The one thing i've never tried is a factory reset because i didn't want to lose ios 6 or some podcasts that were on my phone but were no longer available for download so i didnt' want to lose them. Later tonight i'm going factory reset my six, and delete ALL backups on my phone or in icloud (not exactly sure how i do this but i'm doing it lol). Then i'm going to start completely fresh.
Oh FYI, I manually manage music. I don't sync anything. I drag and drop 100% of media, i don't let itunes manage folders either. i'm on windows 7 ultimate sp1 32bit on a PC. Oh and i've had this issue on multiple windows 7 machines, and multiple versions of itunes. On ios 6 and ios 7.

Some album artwork won't display on iPod Classic

I've had a strange problem recently with my new iPod Classic(and, come to think of it, my 2nd gen. iPod Nano): certain album artwork won't properly display, but will instead show up as a black square(like the 5th Metallica album, or the Spinal Tap album...). Sometimes, this happens only with certain songs on an album. For instance, I purchased 2 songs from the album "Employment" by Kaiser Chiefs last year. Recently, I purchased the CD, and I imported it to my computer. I chose "get album artwork" so the album cover would display for the newly imported songs, as well as the 2 I already bought. Now, the 2 songs I bought last year display their artwork normally, but the newly imported tracks just display the black square.
What's going on, and how can I fix it?
Thanks in advance..

in iTunes, choose to not *display Album Artwork on your iPod*, then sync your iPod, then change it back to display album artwork and sync again. I believe that will fix it.
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Some album artwork won't display on iPad

Hi guys,
Some of the song's album artwork won't display on my iPad or iPhone but shows up against each song in the album on iTunes on my Mac. There are entire albums' artwork not showing, yet when I open and play the same song in iTunes on my mac, it's there.
Any ideas?

in iTunes, choose to not *display Album Artwork on your iPod*, then sync your iPod, then change it back to display album artwork and sync again. I believe that will fix it.
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TS1591 My ipod classic (80gb) won't sync with my mac & itunes. How can i fix this without losing all my data? (ie. music, photos, video)

My ipod classic is still working, its not frozen or anything. It just won't sync up with my macbook and itunes. I recently realized that I had previously connected it to a PC just to charge it then it when i tried to connect it to my mac, it wouldn't sync up. Can someone help me figure this out? I don't want to lose all of my data though, like music, photos, or videos. Any help is appreciated! Thank you for your time!

okay, I don't know about the rest, but about the songs never actually loading onto your iPod, I found in another discussion how to fix that. I'm using Windows 7, so I don't know if the steps are the same, but the end result is the same. So go into your Start menu, then into accessories, right click 'Command Prompt' and click 'Run as administrator'. Then type in the following: netsh winsock reset then press Enter. After a few seconds it should tell you to to restart your computer for changes to take effect. Restart your computer, then restart iTunes, then everything should be working fine. It still takes forever sometimes to update the iPod, but eventually it will work. I've had to do this multiple times, so I'd suggest copying & pasting this solution into a notepad or Word document and saving it on your computer, so you don't have to go through the discussions again to find it. This tends to happen to me nearly every day unfortunately Hope this fixes that problem, but I'm not having any of the other problems fortunately, except for removing the artwork of the songs it updates without me asking it too. PS I think my problem may be with iOS 5, because iTunes 10.5 came out before iOS 5, and I think everything was fine before I updated my iPod, but I really don't know where the problem lies

ITunes won't sync new music

I recently put some new albums on my iTunes, but my iPod won't sync the music! I also updated some things with other albums by the same artist(I added album artwork) and it showed those updates. Then I got another album and put that on there, and that album syncs! These three albums just WON'T sync to my iPod...why is that? I checked and they have the right information for the artist/album artist, album, genre, tracks, all that stuff. What would keep music from being synced?

Well that's weird they won't sync, then - if they play in itunes, your PC is authorized OK for those songs if they are purchased, and if they are not purchased, it's a file type itunes can recognize.
Any errors?
Are you actually syncing the music to the iPod, or manually managing the music?
Where did you get them - download, ripped from CD using itunes?

Ipod classic won't sync, lost music DESEPERATE!!!

Downloading new music that i had just bought from the Itunes store, my Ipod classic (30 gb) forze up and now it won't sync any music file. At first it stated a 48 error, then something about artwork error and now it posted that
there's a corrup file and should run Chkdsk utility (which I have no idea what it is), and lost all the music I had in the Ipod but didn't lose any photos. This happened in both machines I work on. What can I do about this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Although this document says Mac users, it has worked for windows users also. *[Error 48|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1478]*

BRAND NEW IPOD SHUFFLE WON"T SYNC WITH ITUNES

getting an error message of 'the ipod cannot be synced, The disk could not be read from or written to'
Tried restoring factory settings, won't restore.
Itunes are sitting in library but won't sync to IPOD. HELP!

You have posted in the forum for problems & questions with using the iTunes store. You should find more help in the shuffle forum.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=199

Podcasts won't sync - error "no longer exist"

i connected my ipod to sync to itunes. for some unknown reason, itunes was blanked out and when it synced, it wiped everything off my ipod. i reuploaded everything from my hard drive and subscribed to/downloaded podcasts. however, now when itunes syncs with my ipod, i get a message that the podcasts no longer exist so it won't sync. help! i miss my podcasts!!!

It has nothing to do with being authorised, that doesn't affect Podcasts. Plus, you already have them on your computer.
Did you have to change the settings for the Sync Podcasts? If you did, then you may need to perform another Sync to make sure the "change" has been implemented.
If not, then:
Have you previously managed to Sync Podcasts with this iPod?
Are they Podcasts, downloaded as Podcasts through iTunes?
Are they iTunes U programmes?
Are they video Podcasts?
Do you see any error messages when you Sync the iPod with iTunes?
Where, on your iPod, are you looking for the Podcasts?

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