Assign any picture as album art?

When possible, I use the "get album artwork" option to obtain album cover art, but this is often not a possibility for more obscure albums. Is there any way that I can make an image file from my computer the displayed album cover art for a given album?
Someone I spoke to at apple tech support told me she thinks it is possible, but she was unsure.
I am using windows xp on a pc.

Sure. Download artwork anywhere you want (Google Images & Amazon are two popular places to find artwork). Highlight all the songs from an album. Do a Get Info. Drag and drop the artwork into the Artwork box. OK out of Get Info and your artwork should appear.
Patrick

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I have a lot of CDs on iTunes and I tried to download the cover art for the CDs. However, the Apple store doesn't have the artwork for many CDs and for others, it downloads the wrong cover art. For the Buena Vista Social Club, for example, it downloaded the cover of Astral Social Club. It doesn't have any cover art for the Beatles (is that because Apple and Apple Records were suing each other over trademark infringement? I thought that had been settled). Is anyone else having this sort of trouble? And how do you get rid of the album art that's wrong? I've tried dragging it to the trash, but nothing happens.

Good advice from Diane Wordsmith. A couple of shortcuts:
To fill in missing artwork: Google and find the correct artwork. Copy it. Get Info on the song tracks and paste the artwork into the artwork field.
Set the views to "show artwork", highlight the track or tracks, then just drag the image from the browser window to the empty artwork box. To make image searching faster in Google, click on the "images" feature in the results window to just see hits with artwork.
To get rid of wrong artwork: Get Info on the song tracks. Select the artwork in the artwork field and hit delete. Then copy and paste as noted above to apply correct artwork. (The artwork field will hold more than one image, so you must hit delete first to get rid of artwork that's wrong.)
If you want to delete artwork from a bunch of files at once, highlight the group of files. Get Info. Click on the box next to the artwork box and close the info window. This will delete all artwork in those files.
Note. Adding artwork to files this way will increase the size of the file. Usually if a single track from an album has artwork it will display for all the items in the album so you don't necessarily need to add artwork to all the tracks in an album. This will save some space.
I am hoping this hasn't changed all that much since iTunes 7.5

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I have a 2nd Generation 8GB Touch with 4.0.2 installed. Just recently I've noticed a couple of issues with it.
When I look at the photos stored, in the thumbnail view some of the photos are just a black box, but when I view the pics, they show normally.
When I am looking at the album art, a couple of the albums have wrong artwork showing, even though in iTunes it has the correct artwork showing there. For example one album has the artwork for a podcast that I no longer have synced to the iPod. If I browse to right to look at the next album, in the background where you see the album covers of the other albums, it shows the right artwork. Another album just has artwork for another podcast, but when I see it behind another album, it is showing the artwork for the podcast that I first mentioned earlier.
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I called Apple and was told that I needed to restore the iPod. The problem is that I had purchased and installed the January upgrade on my iMac and not my MacBook.
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Hi all --
Does itunes look in a specific place for album art? Basically my question is this: I want to transfer my album art from one computer to another. I see that the art is located in my documents\my pictures\itunes album art ... But will those upload automatically?
-Eric

Do you mean the actual mp3 & wavs
MP3's, yes. WAVs, no.
WAVs don't support any type of tagging well, so iTunes won't let you add album art to WAV files.
But yes, in the actual music files themselves. Not in a separate file, not in a lookup table, album art is stored in the MP3 file (or M4A file for AAC/ALAC format music).

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Normally my album art works fine. Upload it to my songs from a picture file on my hard drive, works fine. But lately, all of a sudden, any new uploaded album art pictures to songs do not sync to the iPod. None of them. When getting the info for a song on iTunes, the album art shows up fine; but they refuse to sync to the iPod. The song syncs fine; but the album art does not go with it.
The album art pictures I uploaded are all standard .jpg files, they are no larger in resolution, size, or memory than other album arts that I uploaded in the past that work fine. This just started happening all of a sudden, without any preferences being changed or anything. I've tried finding new pictures to use, but that didn't work. I've tried re-installing iTunes, that didn't work. I've tried ejecting and not ejecting my iPod before disconnecting it, neither do anything. I've tried deleting and replacing the entire song on iTunes, did nothing.
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Actually, toggling that option and syncing made it so now no artwork shows up on my iPod at all...
Please say there's another option for syncing artwork. Because that option just made things worse.

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Hello,
In iTunes 9, whenever playing any music with album art, iTunes would not attempt to detach a separate window.
However, new in iTunes 10, every time I play a song that has album artwork, iTunes will automatically detach a small separate popup window that is supposed to show the album artwork for that song (I say "supposed', because the album artwork never shows up in this window; it's always just pitch black), as well as playback controls when you mouse over that detached window.
Also, whenever you try to close this album artwork popup window, song playback also stops! So one is forced to keep it open the entire time iTunes is playing music that happens to have album artwork.
I would like to remove this detached popup window and never have it show up, as it increases clutter with an extra window on my desktop, and most importantly, I did not instruct iTunes to open a separate window in the first place.
I searched iTunes preferences exhaustively and could not find an option to disable this album artwork popup window.
Is there a defaults write com.apple.iTunes command that can disable it? Or some other way to get iTunes to stop always automatically displaying this separate album artwork popup window? (And NO, I don't want to just minimize it).
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Well, I have all of my songs in iTunes with album artwork, yet when I sync'd a songlist to the nano and play any song, no album art shows up. None. Zero.
This should be as easy as transferring the songs.
On the itunes window, it lists that 0 photos are on the nano. I even tried syncing a small iphoto library of 16 photos to it. The photos appear, yet NONE of the album art shows up for ANY of my songs.
Respectfully requesting a clue.

Thanks to all who've replied so far. When I get home to both my home Mac and the Nano I will try each suggestion step by step.
On the off chance I stopped by our local Apple store to ask a rep about it. His reply was "only album art that will show on the nano will be from songs you've purchased through the iTunes Music Store." I asked him to repeat that just to make sure I understood him.
I said so, all of the CDs I have now ripped into iTunes, and scanned artwork from the covers and sync'd in iTunes - will NOT show up on my nano when I sync the nano to my iTunes library. He said that's correct.
I think this guy is full of it. But then that's just my opinion.
Can anyone confirm that they have artwork showing on a Nano that was NOT downloaded from the iTunes music store? Rather - like most of us - ripped from a CD, artwork gracefully found from amazon and dragged to the iTunes window?
Thanks for all the help so far gang. Will update in about 6 hours when I get home.
Oh - BTW, through out all this the nano reported 0 photos until I uploaded about 16 photos from the iPhoto library just to make sure that was working properly. It still reports 640 songs, 16 photos, capacity 3.7 Gb, Available 290 Mb, and version 1.0, serial # ###, Model PA005LL

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There is much art for many albums that I wish to replace, however I only seem to be able to assign a second set of art for a given song or album that is only displayed when i click the arrows above the art in the bottom left corner of Itunes. I was wondering if there was any way for me to change the artwork for the songs I own. Since I paid for them, I think I should be able to assign one single piece of art for a given song.....
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IOS 7 music app does not display artist pictures and has incorrect album art after master reset.

Strange issue here. I did the update from iOS 6 to iOS 7, after I did the update, I noticed my synced music has just a random photo of the artist / group, that seems to be downloaded from the iTunes sites, because these pictures of the artist/group is not my album artwork.
I did a master reset on my device because I wanted to start from a clean slate, and set it up as a new phone. I went through and adjusted all of my settings and synced my music back on via iTunes, now its not showing these pictures any longer, infact, the strangest issue of them all.. is now when I view artists, the album that I synced now has a complete different album artwork picture that is not related to that album.
I am at a loss, my iTunes is extremely organized, I have everything configured to be 100% accurate for track names, artist, album, and album artwork.
Anyone have any input here? It only screwed up after the reset I did. This has to be a bug or something.

SiMooew469: Thank you! After countless wasted hours messing with this, your solution was the only one that worked! After setting up a few phones "as new" I noticed all the artist images would appear (for those that have one) even with my Match turned on. I could not duplicate it on my restored-from-backup iPhone5S, as I would get a mix of the images and album art, even for those artists that have profile photos on the as-new setups. I couldn't afford to lose all my text messages, etc. that come with restoring a phone as-new, so I tried about everything else under the sun: I tried logging in-and-out of my Apple ID, toggling Match on-and-off, I even deleted iTunes_control folder using iExplorer on a Windows machine. Nothing worked.
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If you don't have it set this way already, toggle "Group By Album Artist" in Settings->Music. For some reason that makes a difference for some artists in your library that appear when album artist is set to "Various Artists" or something other than the track's artist. Logout of your Apple ID. Log in with any other Apple ID. Open the Music app and watch all the artist images load in the Artisits tab. Once it is done, logout of the other Apple ID and login with your regular Apple ID. Finally, all the artist images will remain. Those artists that do not have a profile photo with iTunes will still show album art, which is by design. Hopefully Apple will keep updating that database.
Incidentally, it's a bit odd that those profile photos don't appear in the Artists view in iTunes 11...or am I the only one?

Album art the same if album artist field is the same-any way to avoid this?

The situation - It appears that even if an album with various artists (compilation) has different album art for each song sometimes coverflow displays the same album art in coverflow for all songs (it randomly picks one) and not the album art for a given song (in the coverflow view). Filling in a unique album artist appears to resolve the problem (i.e. the specific artwork shows in coverflow for that one song) but if the album artist is the same (i.e. if you autofill the album artists field with something generic) the album art reverts to the behavior of showing the same art for all songs. The goal is to have a way to show the individual album art for these song without having to type in unique album artists entry in the album artist field for each song (optimally being able to either clear the album artist fill for the entire library or do an autofill with some generic label). Basically I want the album art to show for an individual song? Any ideas? (Breaking up the compilation does solve the problem but I am attempting to avoid that. Any other ideas?)

Technically the Album is different if the Album Artist field is different (you are right of course) but that is not the point here. I am trying to achieve a desired result. A combination of different artists songs put together as a compilation and named as an "album" (using iTunes terminology, even though it is not a real album.)
Here is a made up scenario to make sure the situation is clear - Consider 3 songs one by Prince, on by Beyonce and One by Jay-Z. - Now I take the one song from each of them that I want to group together and make it compilation and call an album, called "Wild Combination" or whatever ). There is different artwork for each song obviously (art from its original album or single). Well - I want to see that individual artwork when a given song is playing, not the same artwork for all songs in the "album". Right now, iTunes picks one of the songs and shows the same artwork for all three (i.e. it may be Prince playing but a picture of Jay-Z showing up in coverflow - by the way, the Now Playing box always shows it correctly or the way I want it, coverflow does not and Apple T.V. does not). In the above example the Album artist field is blank.
Partial fix - If you enter an Album artist into that field (i.e. a unique name in the Album artist field for each artist then the individual art shows up in coverflow). If the Album Artist field remains blank it reverts to showing a single art for all songs. If there is some generic text in all three fields (i.e. non-unique, easily filled in generic text) then the art shows the same for all three songs.
The question again, is how to make the individual artwork show up without entering unique text in the album artist field (imagine not 3 songs but 500 hundred or 5000 songs with this problem, unique entries is a no-go). Hopefully that clears up the situation.
Regarding your question about the sort of the art - I have both scenarios but for the sake of this question, lets assume the art is in the song file itself.
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated?

Assign any picture as album art?

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