Can't delete artwork

I pasted an album cover cover to a song that is corrpted and won't go away when I delete it. Any sugguestions?
JJ Rogers

I'm also experiencing this -- and many other -- artwork-related problems in the latest update. There are multiple threads about them, including copy/paste not working, viewing multiple artwork covers not working, and this problem of not being able to delete artwork.
My solution to this problem was to use Time Machine, and replace the song's file with an older copy, and then I'm able to delete the artwork, and add new. In the latest version, it's easy to "corrupt" a song's file, just by adding/updating artwork. Using Time Machine is the only way I've been able to fix problem songs. Very annoying.

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How can I delete artwork?

I would like to find a way to delete album artwork from a file. I've converted many of my CDs into iTunes and have attached artwork that I've located on the web. Sometimes the artwork I initially selected wasn't the same as my actual CD covers but I added what I could find. When I later find the correct artwork for a CD and add it to iTunes, both copies of the artwork are stored. I'd like to delete the former version and retain only the correct version. It appears there is no mechanism to delete artwork once it's loaded into iTunes unless you delete the entire file, re-import it into iTunes and then add the correct artwork. That's quite time consuming and there should be a more straight forward means.

If you just drop art onto the panel beneath the playlists, any images you drop get added to the existing artwork in the selected files. If, however, you use the "Get Info" dialog on a group of files then the art you paste in replaces any & all existing artwork. If you simply need to remove all art from a group of tracks, select them, "Get Info", then on the Options tab place a tick against the artwork box and click OK.
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I have an ipod classic 160 GB (6G). I do not wish to see the artwork icon in my display. I've deleted all my songs' artwork in my iTunes, but the music note icon of course remains on my ipod display. I use my ipod for teaching dance classes, and I'm only interested in viewing the text: song name, artist, etc., the way my old ipod photo (4G) displayed information, without the artwork icon. Is that possible?

Sorry, but it is not a feature of the iPod.
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How can I get artwork to upload and display consistently?

There are inconsistancies with my experience compared to others. The main similarity is that artwork is not uploading consistatly. I'm seeing the following:
Some artwork that dispplays in iTunes doesn't display on my iPhone (my only iTunes Match enabled device)
Some artwork on songs purchased from iTunes Store doesn't display.
Some artwork on songs purchased from iTunes Storewill display on some songs from an album but not the entire album.
Some artwork that I have added manually will display on some songs but not the entire album.
Artwork thumbnail will display in album list but won't diaplay for individual songs.
I have tried deleting artwork and letting iTunes find it again. I have tried using 600x600 size images. I have verified that artwork size doesn't matter. I've added 1200x1200 artwork and it displays through iTunes Match on my iPhone. For the most part I get artwork that iTunes can't find from Amazon's mp3 store or Discogs.com. Again, some of what I get fromAmazon will display, some won't. Same for Discogs.
I can't find any consistancies in any of it. Everything I think of to try is contradicted by other songs in my library. I've searched through the discussions and tried everything suggested. I've deleted and reupped or re"matched" my library 3 times now.
It seems as if there are no answers.

Wow Steve. I can't believe I have found someone with the exact same issues as I do and when you said in your original post that you couldn't find any "consistencies" with the artwork problems, I said to myself this guy is going through the same **** as I am. When I first heard of iTunes Match for the first time, I spent a whole day adding the missing artwork to my 1258 albums. After purchasing iTunes Match and letting it scan my whole library, there were some 80 albums that had lost their cover art in my library. This is a part from the fact that some albums that DO have cover art do not have their artwork appear on my iPhone and iPad. I have also noticed some albums have their artwork appear on the album page but not when i'm on the artist or individual song page.
I did notice one thing though that I hope they fix. There are some albums of mine, which are compilations of various artists, that I rather have regrouped under one artist for easy finding. When I tried modifying the artist for a complete album which cover art is displayed, the cover art would disappear from my devices.
This shows me that there are many sorting issues that will have to be corrected and I'm guessing alot of them are related to the album cover art issues.
I justed wanted to add the fact that I have noticed the exact same issues as you did and hoping that this will all be resolved someday by Apple because I don't think there is anything more we can do.

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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.
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When I hit "Get Info" and go to the "Artwork" tab, the only way to add art is by clicking "Add Artwork" and manually searching for it in my drives. I no longer can simply copy and paste. I also cannot even do anything with the currently existing artwork; right clicking it does literally nothing. Highlighting and hitting "delete" on the keyboard also does nothing. So, granted these new extremely limited options (again, I can literally only "Add Artwork"), how does one go about deleting already-existing artwork?
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On the artwork tab of Get Into, tap the image in question, use Backspace or Ctrl+X. Delete doesn't work.
Or, tap the image at the top left of Get Info, this time use Backspace or Delete, it is Ctrl+X that doesn't work.
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Select artwork, press Ctrl+C to copy, tap the center of the Artwork tab, press Ctrl+V to paste.
Or, select artwork, press Ctrl+C to copy, tap the small image area at the top left, press Ctrl+V to paste.
Or, you can drag & drop to, or sometimes from, the same locations.
You can also copy artwork from the Get Info dialog to Windows Explorer with the keyboard shortcuts.
If the source image is on a web page right-click and use Copy Image rather than copy.
If you have multiple images embedded drag the one you want to be the primary artwork to the leftmost position.
The top left image box can be used to add or delete art from multiple tracks. In either case all existing art is removed/replaced.
Old Style Get Info Dialog
Select some items, right-click, hold down shift, then click Get Info from the context menu. (Use alt/option on a Mac)
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The top left image box can be used to add or delete art from multiple tracks. In either case all existing artwork in all tracks is replaced/removed.
Old Style Get Info Dialog
Select some items, right-click, hold down shift, then click Get Info from the context menu. (Use alt/option on a Mac)
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