Blank album artwork

There was an album I had ripped to my library, and I got some album artwork automatically, by clicking Get album artwork from when you right-click an album in the iTunes library. On iTunes, it showed the album artwork, but on my iPod, it shows a blank space, really, just nothing but black. Not the music note with the gray background, but just black. What is wrong with this thing? CAN SOMEONE PLEASE REPLY!!!

There was an album I had ripped to my library, and I got some album artwork automatically, by clicking Get album artwork from when you right-click an album in the iTunes library. On iTunes, it showed the album artwork, but on my iPod, it shows a blank space, really, just nothing but black. Not the music note with the gray background, but just black. What is wrong with this thing? CAN SOMEONE PLEASE REPLY!!!

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