Can't add artwork

I have some videos (m4v) that I can see in the cover flow pane. They show without artwork. When I try to add it (thru the drag window) it won't accept it. This does not happen with music, where most of the artwork is easily pasted and appears in the cover flow right away....any hints?

Hi, i have got the same problem...i got the new version of itunes and i was adding artwork to my albums and it worked for the first 5 albums but then itunes stopped saving the artwork to any other songs....i made sure none of the songs were read only, which they were not.....i can put the artwork on the song but it does not save it, if i click off the song it disappears...and if i add artwork to a group of songs if never shows up, like nothing ever happened....i have uninstalled and reinstalled and its the same....any help would be great..thanks

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Podcast Problem - how can i add artwork to apple blog rss link

hi,
i create a wiki blog page on our mac server, on the blog page i add video for podcasting and i enable podcast service on wiki settings. Then i take rss link from safari and i subscribe to itunes but when itunes check my link, there isnt artwork and i cant change the rss link code cause of the link generated automaticly from java. What can i do for this problem or how can i add artwork to apple blog servers rss link ?
Thank you

Bonjour,
The rules are simple: one entry = one page
if an article needs several pages, start this article on blog entry then continue with a page made with welcome page template or blank page template.
you can change the link of the buttons "next" and "previous" to visit the pages you choose.
(select the link > inspector > Link > hyperlink > check enable as a hyperlink > choose "one of my pages" ).
Don't include these other pages in navigation menu.
(inspector > Page > Page > uncheck "include page in navigation menu").

In iTunes 10.4 or 10.5 beta I can't add artwork

In iTunes 10.4 or 10.5 beta I can't add artwork to ALAC files by pasting or dragging them to the album.
Please fix this.

It's a bug with iTunes 10.4.0.80 (and presumably the beta?). If you copy and paste from some web browsers or an image editor then iTunes pastes in a transparent image of the same dimensions. This shows up black in the artwork panel at the bottom left or white in the get info art viewer.
If you work with an image file stored on your computer you should get better results. Use the artwork box on the Info tab of the Get Info. dialog for multiple tracks to replace all existing images. With a single track you will need to delete the existing corrupt images from the Artwork tab first.
tt2

Can't add artwork to iTunes...

I have been adding art work gradually to my iTunes for the songs I ripped from my CDs. I was doing just fine by highlighting the entire album, right clicking, hitting "Get Info", and just adding the art work. But just recently it has decided that enough is enough, and will not add any more. In the art work box where a plus used to show up when you drag a picture over, now a circle with a slash through it appears. And I have tried this with all sorts of bands so I know it has nothing to do with a certain one. Plus the fact that I don't have any .WAV files on iTunes, so I have no idea what it could be.

Hi, i have got the same problem...i got the new version of itunes and i was adding artwork to my albums and it worked for the first 5 albums but then itunes stopped saving the artwork to any other songs....i made sure none of the songs were read only, which they were not.....i can put the artwork on the song but it does not save it, if i click off the song it disappears...and if i add artwork to a group of songs if never shows up, like nothing ever happened....i have uninstalled and reinstalled and its the same....any help would be great..thanks

Can't add artwork to itunes movies

Hi,
I am using Video Converter Ultimate to load my dvd collection in iTunes movies. The converter output is .m4v file. When I add artwork to the "Artwork" tab of the Get Info box It will add but then I get a spinning colored ball and I must force quit iTunes. When I reopen the move in iTunes the movie will not play. The move is there but when playing the movie it is black (no video will play). Any suggestions?
Thank you
VPH

The Movies are M2V formated, and have AC3 Audio (Have an AC3 Plugin' and Have Apples MPEG 2 component). So please can anyone help me get Artwork to my Movie in iTunes?
Sorry to say, it is not possible in this case. The ability to add/contain graphic "artwork" in iTunes is a property of the file container here. M4V and MP4 containers, for instance, can contain one such independent graphic. On the other hand, an MOV (assume you saved your M2V/AC3 data as an MOV) file cannot. On the other hand, your MOV file can have a "poster frame." If you are not a "purist," you can get around this problem by simply adding/drag 'n dropping your graphic to an appropriate point in your MOV file (I would recommend the end of the file), setting it as your "poster frame," and saving the file. In iTunes, this "poster frame" will now show up in your "artwork" display locations. (PS -- this is on a separate track as you attempted to do. In QT Pro, pre-position playhead to end of file and add JPEG track last so its layer is above main movie layer.)

Can't add artwork to new movies

Until last weekend, I could add artwork and pictures to movie files I was importing to iTunes. Now I can't. I add the artwork in the usual way, and it immediately reverts to showing the thumbnail of the video, and when I check for artwork under 'Get File Info', there's none there.
Sometimes, this can be rectified by playing the movie in iTunes (or at least skipping to the last 10 seconds, then letting it play out), and sometimes not. I haven't changed the configuration of my computer in the last two weeks.
I'm using a Macbook, OSX 10.5.8 and iTunes 9.1.1.
I can't be the only one having this problem.....

Some video file formats don't take embedded artwork, and iTunes won't attempt to update a file if it can't get write access to it. Read-only flags, security permissions or even Explorer trying to create a preview image might prevent access.
The artwork cache is divided into two sections, one for art downloaded directly from the iTunes store and not embedded in tags, the other holds a cached copy of anything embedded. Neither has any practical limit other than the capacity of the drive.
It might be worth downloading the latest build (10.2.2.14) directly from http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ as the software update tools won't find it. It might not make a difference, but it can't hurt to try.
tt2

Can't add artwork to album

I have imported many cd's recently and since installing the latest Leopard update I have had a strange issue appear in iTunes relative to artwork.
Some albums did not find artwork to download (par for the course), so I went out to Google images or Amazon and downloaded the image, or I scanned it (as a jpg).
The problem is that I cannot add the artwork to the songs. I am not a novice iTunes user and I have over 50,000 songs in my collection and this is the first time I've had this issue. I have tried the following methods to no avail:
1. Select all the songs in the album, Get Info and drag jpg image to the little artwork box or double click the box and find the file on my hard drive.
2. Select a single song, Get Info, click on artwork tab and drag jpg image to the little artwork box or double click the box and find the file on my hard drive.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 with a single track. All 4 of these actually show the artwork, but when I click Ok to save it, it never shows up in Cover Flow or the Now Playing box. When I go back into Get Info, it's gone.
4. Select a playing track and drag the jpg file to the Now Playing "Drag Album Artwork Here" display box.
5. Select a playing track, copy the jpg file from a Finder window, right click in the Now Playing "Drag Album Artwork Here" and select paste (this actually does add a blank white box which I can then select and delete in the Get Info window for a single track).
All of these methods have worked for me in the past (right up until about 11/21), and now not a single method will work. Nov. 28th is the first time I tried this that it did not work. I updated Leopard to 10.5.1 right around that time. I am running iTunes 7.5 (last updated 11/8/7). My iTunes library is on an external disk (has been for two years), but again, this problem just started occurring last week. I ran a verify and it came up clean.
I could not find a single thread that described this problem (usually people just didn't know how to do it). Has anyone else experienced this?
Thanks in advance for the help.
MG

Hallo, I fear this will not help you, but I have the same problem: Can add artwork to music but not to videos. Maybe a problem with metadata:
I import videos from a tv-recording-program (eyeTV). It works perfectly. When it finishes recording I export the film to iTunes 7.6. When it gets there it is stored under "TV Shows" and has a strange name (f.e.: "Mice hunt, slapstick comedy 1997").
So I got to the Get Info and correct the name, classify it as comedy and set it to "Movies". Clicking OK it is correctly renamed, classified and displayed under "Movies".
Then I go again to "Get Info" and want to add an artwork. I can import the artwork and it is displayed in the Cover-window of "Get info". But when I now click OK the new artwork isn´t displayed and all my information that I changed are restored: The Movie is again "Mice hunt, slapstick comedy 1997".
I have the feeling that it has something to do with the changing of Metadata for videos and with iTunes version 7.6 (in 7.5 everything worked well). So I fear, I´ll have to wait for a bug update.
Andy

ITunes 7 can't add artwork to multiple items in main window like iTunes 6

In iTunes 7 I can no longer add the same artwork to multiple items in the main window. For instance, I want the same cover art added to every track of a certain album. I select all the tracks, and the artwork window says "Drag Album Artwork Here", but when I do, nothing happens.
This used to work fine in iTunes 6. Is this a bug, a setting I am missing or something else? I know I can edit the artwork in the "Get Info" window but that's inconvenient when ripping a lot of CDs.
PowerMac Dual 1.42 GHz G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Negative, Bill.
Even with "selected item" checked, it will not add artwork to multiple items. The method I am using is the method I have always used - highlight the whole album and drag a jpg from a web browser straight in. It makes a brief HD noise as if something is being accomplished, but the songs do not acquire any artwork.
However, if you only select one song, it will drag in seamlessly as always.

How can I add artwork with the latest version of itunes?

When I try to add artwork to my iTunes, it doesn't work. I already tried the Find Artwork button, but it didn't find artwork for all my songs. Then I tried to add it myself. I added artwork to whole CD's, but it wouldn't let me add it if it was just one song! How do I fix this? Thanks!

Then change back to the old layout:
iTunes 11: Show Sidebar and Status Bar

How can I add artwork when I don't have the artwork option??

I want to add artwork that gracenote cddb doesn't recognize but when I choose "get more info" the artwork tab isn't there.

Believe me I've tried everything. I'm signed in right now. I have everything set. Some albums have the artwork tab when I right click them and choose get info. There should be 4 or 5 tabs. Summary, Info, Options, Lyrics, & Artwork. Some of the albums with no artwork have only 3 tabs. Summary, Info , & options. The info is grayed out unless I choose every song. When I do that, none of the changes I make in the info tab stay including dragging artwork into the little artwork window. Please help.

Can't add artwork for WAV file?

It's true. I tried. Is that supposed to happen? Why can't I put artwork on a WAV file in iTunes?

i think and am pretty sure that the album art is saved into the tracks data tags. There is a difference between the data tag on a file and the iTunes database infomation. Things like artist, album, genre go into the tracks data tag. Things like ratings and playcount go into the database file (see ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Database). If the artwork were stored in iTunes then it would global and across all formats and would not be retained if music is moved around. I think that album art is preserved if a track is moved and as you've pointed out album art can't be added to some formats such as WAV so i'm guessing that album art is a codec limitation. WAV is pretty old a raw uncompressed format that is much larger than mp3 or aac. You would need to convert the audio to one of these formats to add album art. To do this set your import options to one of these codecs under the importing tab in the advanced pane of the iTunes preferences. Then with the WAVs selected in iTunes go to the Advanced Menu in the main menu bar and click on 'Convert Selection to <Codec you chose>'
Hope that helps
DKR

Can't add artwork - bizarre iTunes behavior

Okay - this is bizarre - I imported an album into iTunes 9 (downloaded from the Artist's website). I added the artwork and changed the genre and number of tracks, but these changes only "stuck" to about 4 of the 19 tracks. No matter what I did, I couldn't add the artwork to the 15 tracks that needed it. And - interestingly - if I next/previoused through the tracks on the album, all of the values that I changed would revert to the original values the tracks had when they imported. It was almost as if iTunes couldn't change the ID3 tags in the mp3 files. (Well, I guess it really couldn't when it came down to it.)
I solved the problem by right-clicking all the tracks and selecting "Create MP3 verssion" - essentially duplicating the MP3 files. I was then able to successfully get my changes to "stick" to the new files. (And then I deleted the originals I imported.)
What is this strange strange behavior all about?

There are three common causes for this:
your media are in a format that doesn't accommodate embedded artwork - typically WAV files. To embed artwork you'll need to convert to another format - Apple Lossless or AIFF if you want to preserve lossless quality, AAC or MP3 otherwise.
your media files are read only - to fix this, use Windows Explorer to find the folder that contains your files, right-click and select Properties. On the General tab there's a check box labeled "Read-only" - if this is checked, or is grey (sometimes blue), click the box so that the flag is unchecked and the box is white. Click OK, and then OK again when the "Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files" option selected. Now try adding the artwork again.
Windows permissions issues are preventing iTunes from updating your media files (there's some anecdotal evidence of a change in this behavior in iTunes 12). See turingtest2's notes on Repair security permissions for iTunes for Windows for advice on fixing this, then try adding the artwork again.

Can't add artwork to file

I just finished importing some 80 odd songs in Apple Lossless format. All files have accepted artwork but one. When I highlight it it says "Album Artwork Not Modifiable." Why?

The ownership and permissions on the file in question are probably not right. I would advise locating the file on your hard drive and checking out the ownership and permissions and correcting them so that you have read and write access. If you need more specific instructions, please post a reply.

How can you add artwork ?i'm gonna die help pls..

hi i have 30g ipod white video
i downloaded itunes 7.0 and i updated my ipod then i restore my ipod and started to drag and drop my songs after i finish transfering songs i also drag and drop the album artworks of the album everything seems ok when you look at itunes .. (and i also thicked display album artwork) and i opened my ipod when i looked the song there is no album artwork ... help me pls..

lucycy,
Try this -> iPod 101 - Crank Up the Tunes
Also, for information on getting an iPod started, read this -> Fast Start: Guide to iPod basics
When the above poster referred to "manual syncing", that means to drag-and-drop songs to your iPod (in iTunes); as opposed to wither of the two "automatic" options.
Here's when "Edit -> Preferences -> iPod -> Music" settings look like:
Manually managing music on your iPod
-Kylene

Why can't one add artwork to music saved as a wave file

i can add scanned artwork to an entry in itunes only if it is saved as an AAC or MP3 file but when i try and save scanned artwork to a wave file, it doesn't afford me that choice.....any reason that would be?

It's the way WAV file formats were designed years ago by Microsoft. It's not just itunes that can't add artwork to the actual file; no jukebox player software can add artwork tags to WAV files.
If you want artwork to display in itunes for WAV files, you can get the artwork from the itunes store if
1) you have an itunes store account
2) that album is sold is your country's itunes store
itunes will store the artwork in some special folders outside of the WAV files, and use the itunes database file (ITL file extension) to find them as needed.
For albums not in the itunes store, you have to do something like this
http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/iTunes-artwork-wav-files

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