Auto Sync disables album art?

I have had my nano on manual for a while, but today i decided to switch to auto syncing, however, when i view the songs there isnt any album art, and with manual transferring there was. Problem with the software?

If your iPod is set to manual transfer, you can add artwork directly to the songs on the iPod (through iTunes).
Connect the iPod and click on it so all the songs are visible in iTunes and highlight any song or album. Then get an artwork image from (say) Amazon and copy/paste it into the artwork box in iTunes which will add it to the song/album on your iPod.
You cannot use the "get album artwork" feature in iTunes to add artwork this way and one thing to note is that if you add artwork directly to the iPod, the artwork is sometimes not displayed or displayed incorrectly when playing songs (because this is not the intended method of adding artwork).

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Syncing Issues: album art, cut-off songs

I have a 16GB iPod Touch that I've been syncing with my Windows Vista PC, seemingly without complications. It has only recently come to my attention that somewhere between my computer's library and my library on my iPod, something is messing up at random times. Full songs will become half-songs, 30-second songs, on the iPod. They are not damaged on my PC, but when they get uploaded to the iPod, they get messed up. If I re-upload them, sometimes the problem goes away, sometimes it cuts in a different spot. This is immensely frustrating, as I do not know how to fix it or what is causing it to begin with.
More recently I have discovered that all the work I have done organizing my library and getting everything to have album covers is wasted when I try to put these albums on my Touch. The album covers entirely disappear, and I have to copy and paste them in, which takes about five minutes per album (slow write speed?). Seems pretty lame to have a product focused on the ability to flip through albums visually, and then have the album art not automatically download with my music.
Any help?

I finally have the fix for this issue after a month of extensive debugging, experimentation, etc. on Windows Vista. I've reinstalled my whole **** computer twice, and Apple's phone support is a (bad) joke. They should just send me the script they use so I can read it myself.
First off, let's establish the symptoms of this problem:
* Data sync'ed to my iPod Touch would corrupt at random points. Sometimes songs would go through intact. Other times they would "glitch" partway through and the device would advance to the next song. Video files of a sufficient size -- like movies and T.V. episodes -- ALWAYS glitch at some point, which crashes the video playback and brings the device back to the video menu.
* Periodically, the iPod Touch would corrupt completely, which required a total firmware restoration. Rarely, these firmware restorations would also fail.
Now for the solution. It's a two-part deal:
1) Stop "Windows Search." It's not the major cause of sync problems, but it is a contributor, which is unsurprising given the amount of resources it hogs. Open the "Services" control panel item (Control Panel->System and Maintenance->Administrative Tools->Services, or just type "services.msc" into the "search" box on the Start Menu) and double-click "Windows Search." Click "stop" and set the startup type to "disabled," then click "OK."
2) This next part is going to be a bitter pill to swallow. When Microsoft launched Vista, it created a new "security feature" called PatchGuard which disallows direct kernel access to third-party applications. Antivirus vendors like McAfee, Symantec, Avast, etc. all have to use a kernel API rather than direct kernel access. However, Microsoft's own antivirus product -- Windows Live OneCare -- has complete access to the kernel without an API.
This appears to have created a weird situation with iTunes. I have reinstalled my system twice, both with 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Vista, and it seems that merely having a third-party antivirus product installed is sufficient to cause this problem. I've tried Avast, McAfee, Symantec and TrendMicro's products. The problem will not go away even if you turn off scanning, put in exceptions, etc. With Avast, I even terminated all of its processes and stopped its services. No dice. Just having a third-party antivirus product installed -- EVEN IF IT IS NOT RUNNING -- will cause this issue.
However, the second you UNINSTALL your third-party antivirus software, the problem goes away -- every time. I've sync'ed movies over and over again to test this, and it's definitely the primary source of the problem.
Obviously, running without antivirus software in this day and age is unacceptable, but there is one product that's free from this problem; in fact, it's the only product that still has direct kernel access. I'm running Windows Live OneCare on a 90-day trial right now, and after running more tests, I've confirmed my hypothesis. Any antivirus product with direct kernel access is fine. The problem is that Windows Live OneCare is the ONLY antivirus product right now with direct kernel access.
If you're running Windows Vista 32-bit, there may possibly be a second antivirus option. My Windows Vista-based gaming laptop uses Computer Associates' AV product, and it's never had a problem syncing with my iPod. I haven't really tested other products on it, though, so your mileage may vary. I can't say for certain that it's a safe bet.
So there you have it: one month of my nights and weekends down the toilet to fix an issue Apple and Microsoft should be handling. I feel like I've paid $500 for the privilege of being an unpaid Apple Q.A. tester. At this point, they should pay ME for the time I've wasted on this issue.

Sync and album art problems with iPhone 3G

The other day my iPhone was sitting in the cradle syncing and I noticed iTunes (8.02) was deleting the apps from the phone. I cancelled that sync and in iTunes I saw that the "Sync Applications" checkbox was unchecked, but I hadn't unchecked it. I then rechecked the box and synced my apps back onto the phone.
Today I added some songs to a playlist and synced, but the sync time seemed suspiciously short. When I checked iTunes I saw that all of my sync content boxes were unchecked...Sync Music, Sync Videos, etc. When I check one of the boxes iTunes threatens to delete all the content presently on my phone and replace it with content from the library....which is of course the same content except for the few songs I copied into one playlist. I don't really want to sit around and wait until this stupid phone replaces 15gb of content with the same 15gb of content. Sometimes this thing acts like such a piece of junk.
Perhaps this is related, but some weeks ago I purchased a Colbie Caillat album from the ITMS. Whenever I play a song from this purchase on my iPhone it shows the album art for an Usher album I already had in my library. If I play the same song on one of my iPods, the album art is correct. Apparently some sort of corruption is afoot in either iTunes, the iPhone or both. Is there some way to get iTunes and the iPhone on the same page without having to wipe and restore this stupid phone? Thanks.

I bit the bullet and checked all the boxes and synced, and the phone did not go through with the threat to erase all my content. It just synced the one changed playlist instead. False alarm. However, the album art issue remains.

Sync without Album Art

I've been having the (-69) error message pop up almost everything I try and sync. It gets to the second song in an album and stops when I manually sync it. When it had worked, it only synced the songs but not the album art. Recently I've tried it said that it didn't recognize the album art.
I was wondering if there is a way to sync without the album art.

Hey there,
To be quite, honest no, but I have heard of a few possible reasons why. More than often, it has to do with a music file that has become corrupt (as in it is unusable or broken). Several people have had this issue over the years, and not too many solutions have appeared for it. Here is the one Apple support document relating to this issue, if you wish to continue looking into it. Not sure it will help, but it may provide a pointer or two.
[iTunes displays a -69 error when syncing iPod|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1210]
B-rock

Does the iPhone sync over album art?

Hello,
Running a new iPhone 4s with the most current version of iOS. I have about 20GB of music files copied over to the device.
Since activating iTunes Match I'm noticing that when playing the songs that are already synced to the iPhone are not immediately showing their cover art. From what I can tell, upon playing one of those songs, the iPhone is going to iCloud and downloading the cover art. If I play each and every song on the album, the artwork eventually downloads for all tracks. If I don't play a track, the art work never appears.
Is anyone else seeing this? My iPod Touch never worked in this way - album art was copied over when I sync'd the device. With the iPhone, however -- and with iTunes Match enabled, it appears that it's done differently. Not a huge deal - I'd just rather have the cover art immediately as I always have.
Thanks!

YES! Well, read on...
It will only sync with Outlook, but I have used a great program called "DoubleLook" which is made my CompanionLink. Find it at www.companionlink.com
Doublelook syncs your Act! data with Outlook.
Check it out!

Need to sync JUST album art....Is that possible?

I loaded some of my music the other day manually like I always do because do otherwise my iPhone would fill out too quickly. So I have Manually manage music and videos on and sync music off under music.
But I didn't have some album art at the time and I finally added it, but now I want to add it to my iPhone, but syncing it doesn't work.
What can I do to sync just the album art

Have you read any of what I've included in my previous posts?
Obviously not - so read it.
You don't have to include your entire music library when syncing. Under the Sync Music selection, you can choose all music and playlists, or selected playlists. I choose selected playlists and have a single primary iTunes playlists that I use for my iPhone, along with a few other playlists.
When manually managing music, you must manually delete the songs from your iPhone - open your iPhone in the iTunes source list to reveal the categories within such as music. Select music to view the music that was manually transferred to your iPhone. Select the music that you want to delete and select the delete button. This is called manually managing music, so you must do all this manually, which isn't a good idea to use with the iPhone.
If you restore your iPhone with iTunes if needed or wanted when manually managing music, you must manually re-transfer all music to your iPhone having to remember which music you had manually transferred to your iPhone before restoring. When syncing, the selected playlists chosen are re-selected automatically, or you can select the playlist or playlists yourself followed by a sync. The identical music as before will be transferred to your iPhone without having to remember anything and without having to manually do anything except for selecting the Sync button.
Don't know why I'm wasting my time with someone who chooses not to read what was already provided and learn something.
Based on all of this, why are you manually managing music again?

Itunes sync distorts album art and does not recognize purchased tones?

I've avoided syncing my phone b/c every time I do it's jacked up everything. And this time was no exception. After syncing yesterday I now have the wrong album art displaying with the wrong artist as well as after re-purchasing 2 tones I'd already paid for FROM ITUNES not showing up as a selection to assign to a contact! They show up in my Library as well as on the iphone content when plugged in but not as a selection to pick when trying to add to a contact. Also, I have a total of 23 tones showing in my Library with sync all tones checked but only 7 or 8 show up on my phone... I'll be happy if I can just get the 2 I want!! Any suggestions on correcting the art work and syncing the tones I've paid for would be welcome.

If you use automatic syncing, you must set up the iPod's Music tab in iTunes so that the selection of songs includes all the songs you want on the iPod.
Select the iPod in iTunes. There is a row of "tabs" (starting with Summary). Click on Music there. That is the Music tab, where you tell iTunes how to sync songs to the iPod.
To use automatic syncing for songs, Sync Music is checkmarked. You can choose to sync Entire music library, if it fits. Otherwise, you can choose to sync Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres.
If you chose the latter, you create a selection of songs on the Music tab by selecting playlists, artists, albums, and/or genres. For example, if you want that new playlist, it must be checkmarked under Playlists. If you want to keep it simple, you can create a new playlist in iTunes and put ALL song you want on the iPod on that playlist (including that new purchased song). Back on the Music tab, checkmark that one playlist.
When you Apply the change, your selection of songs on the Music tab syncs to the iPod. If the iPod was not previously set to use automatic syncing, its existing content is replaced. Going forward, any changes to the iTunes Music library that relate to the selection of songs on the Music tab sync automatically when the iPod is connected, or when you click Sync. So, if you are syncing a playlist as your selection of songs, just update that playlist (add and remove songs), and the iPod gets updated with those changes at the next opportunity.

How do I disable album art?

I'm really not interested in what my albums would look like if I bought them as physical objects. Is there a way to turn album art off?

Actually there IS a way to get rid of it.
in your library (list view) Select ALL songs (Cmd+A)
Then "get Info" (Cmd+I)
Check the box next to the empty artwork box and click OK
It'll remove the artwork for EVERYTHING.

Way to disable album art search in itunes???

Can this be turned off so no search will occur?

Open iTunes. Go to Edit>Preferences>General. Uncheck the box "Automatically find missing album artwork" and choose Ok.

IPod Album Art Cache - Why did they remove the feature to Sync Album Art?

So it appears that Apple removed the ability to enable/disable album art in the iPod configuration in recent versions of iTunes so that one can't turn it off and sync then turn it on and re-sync to reset all the album art once it gets jumbled on the iPod Classic. It seems that this was a useful feature to have. This has recently happed to me for the first time, so now I'm having to re-sync my complete music library of over 80gig and it's going to take all night (and finger's crossed that iTunes doesn't crash - which is why my artwork got jumbled in the first place). Did the old method of resync'ing just the Album Art Cache just cause a re-sync of the entire music catalog anyways? What's the deal?

It's not available with Itunes 11. Want to let Apple know you are unhappy?
They don't read here. Send them feedback through the proper channel:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
The only way they will bring it back is if you send in enough complaints.

ITunes wont sync artist info/album art?

I have an iPod Touch 4th gen and ever since i updated itunes, its stopped syncing my album art and artist info to my songs. at first, it would just take a few tries at syncing before it would update the artwork on my ipod, but now it doesnt update it at all! i've reinstalled itunes countless times, and i've even restored my ipod to factory settings but it STILL wont update. Why is this happening?

I have an iPod Touch 4th gen and ever since i updated itunes, its stopped syncing my album art and artist info to my songs. at first, it would just take a few tries at syncing before it would update the artwork on my ipod, but now it doesnt update it at all! i've reinstalled itunes countless times, and i've even restored my ipod to factory settings but it STILL wont update. Why is this happening?

Album Art will not sync onto iphone 3GS

Songs I have downloaded since the 3.0 upgrade will not sync the album art onto my iphone 3GS. The art work is all in itunes, but on my phone it is just a black square. Help!

I have the same problem. Artwork is correct in iTunes, but does not sync with iPhone, even after deletion and re-sync. I have albums that did not originally have artwork that were transferred to the iPhone (3GS) without artwork. I then downloaded the artwork in iTunes, deleted the original files off the iPhone, and re-transferred the files (which now have artwork). The artwork did not transfer over to the iPhone. Basically, I'm stuck with the amount of artwork I had when I synced the iPhone for the very first time.

How do I sync album art ?

I cant seem to sync my album art to my IPod Nano. So all my music is missing the album Art. How do I fix this ?

Hello PantheraLatina,
Try restoring your iPod via iTunes. This will erase and rebuild your iPod's artwork cache.
B-rock

Getting album art from itunes library to ipod WITHOUT re-syncing?

Okay, so...I've got album art for almost everything in my libraries thanks to the "get album artwork" feature and some lengthy searching and pasting on my part...but it appears as though there's no easy way to get all the artwork from the songs in my itunes library onto the same songs on my ipod--without syncing, that is.
That is a huge pain in the ***, and something I really don't want to do. I have a bunch of stuff on my ipod that I don't want to put in my main library (I have two computers that have different things in each of the libraries) and that I don't want to lose, which I would if I did a "sync."
I have about 25 gb of stuff, which would mean that even if I did want to add it back into my main library, it would take a **** of a long time to figure out exactly what I'm missing, move it over and then do the sync.
I realize that this is probably related to the idea that if you have stuff on your ipod that isn't in your library you probably ripped it off. BUT...this seems to be a pretty big flaw. Not hugely important, but annoying all the same.
Why isn't there an easy way just to sync up album art directly onto an ipod (vs. the itunes library) without stripping every song off my ipod first?
Any ideas/programs that people know of that can get around this issue?

This is really frustrating... I can't believe that now all my album art (and I mean ALL of them) doesn't show in mi iPod anymore...
What I did was uncheck the show art combo box, de-sync the iPod and then re-sync, then check the box again and then de-sync... It didn't work.
Is not use. I guess I'm gonna go back to my old iTunes 6, it worked better than this odd version.
As I said before, I think the look doesn't matter, it can have stars intead of circles and it can have whatever you want, but what I want is something that -WORKS- even if it looks like Windows 3.1...
Ok I'm out I'm gonna post if the old version fixed this...

Album art does not show on iPod

Only the album art from Apple Store purchase is showing up on my iPod. Any art that I imported to iTunes for my own cd's does not show on the iPod. Some of the art came from the Apple "get album art" some I got off the net.
I have iPod v1.2.
Thanx for any thoughts
HP m7250n Windows XP 60g video ipod iTunes 7.0

Try to disable album art on your iPod, then sync it,
then enable artwork again, sync it again and it
should be okay...assuming all the album art appears
in iTunes.
I've had this same problem and it's worked for me.
I manually add songs onto my Ipod and then delete them from Itunes.
Wouldn't syncing my Ipod erase all the songs that are currently on it only adding what is currently in my Itunes Library?

Auto Sync disables album art?

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