Black Album Artwork on my Nano

Can anyone help please?
Artwork seems ok and visible on itunes library but showing black on the nano...

The only successfully way I found was to go into iTunes, delete the album artwork from the albums which will appear black on the nano, save the info setting (without album artwork) and then just replace it again.
This is a transmission problem. Maybe you shouldn't use images bigger than 500 x 500 px.
Note: All Artwork will be converted to a BMP file. It doesn't matter if the original file was JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG or something else.
Regards, Chris

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