Can we expect firmware to fix album art glitches?

I bought a 5.5g 80gb iPod less than a month ago, and while things generally seem to be working great, I am continually experiencing glitches with album artwork. I've got 6000+ songs to which I meticulously assigned album artwork, and it seems that every day I'll find some album or another that has the wrong artwork on my iPod (but correct in iTunes).
I know how to correct it (I've just been going into iTunes, deleting the offending artwork, and reassigning it; then after a sync, the album has the correct artwork on my iPod), but nevertheless it's annoying to keep having to do it.
Can we expect Apple to correct these issues in future firmware?

Its not a firmware issue, its just that the wrong artwork got assigned. With your iPod plugged in, click the music tab of the iPod preference pane. Uncheck the "Display Album Artwork on Your iPod" box and click apply. Eject your iPod and reconnect it. The recheck that box. iTunes will now recopy all of your album artwork, and hopefully assign it to the right song. This worked for me when I had this problem and I hope it works for you!

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Can someone help?
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PETITION: FIX ALBUM ART

hi, well currently, i had to RETAG about 60 albums since i lost alot of my album art. Believe it or not, i still have a lot to go to finish re tagging thanks to Creative's firmware update. so well this petition is for creative to address this issue with an update since over at epizenter we've disccused this alreaddy. To my surprise i tried re-sizing some album's album art to 500x500, 300x300, 498x500. and yet some album art with this size work, and some dont.
so i say sign it if you'd like an update fixing this stupid idiotic issue. oh yah, i've already contactes CS more than 4 times and i get the same response on "resize" and "retransfer" or make a "folder.jpg" which to none avail.
SIGN
thanksMessage Edited by kickenchicken on -24-20060:54 PM

kickenchicken wrote:
Come one people! sign if you HATE retagging music with album art, then resizing it. COME ONE!
You mean "come on"
*signed*
This whole album art thing dri'ves me crazy. I hate it when it NEVER shows properly >
Keep signing people.

How can I quickly get the same album art for all tracks on an album without manually doing them one at a time?

I am having trouble with album art linked to each track. My library is ripped from my own cd's and ITunes only provides some of the artwork from a find artwork search. The rest must be found and added one at a time manually from web. This process is tedious and time consuming for me. Is there a file in iTunes related to each album that I can just drop the art once and it shows up linked to all the tracks from that album when they play? I've tried selecting all songs from an album and dragging the artwork to the artwork window once in hopes of all tracks getting the artwork at the same time with no luck. Any advice for this paltry artwork dilemma would be appreciated. If Cassidy & Greene still owned this ******* child of SoundJam I know I would not be having this problem! HaHa...Thanks for any advice/help with this problem.

Thx 4 quick reply alexbird. Your method will work and after a little experimenting so will this: Just go to the album art view option and highlight the album you want artwork for. Drag the artwork from your album art web search page to bottom left hand album art window in iTunes and just drop it there. A small progress window then appears showing each album track adopting the dropped artwork one by one. It only takes 10-15 seconds for all of the tracks on your album to adopt the new artwork. I then went back and removed unwanted artwork(from the albums that had it) track by track from the get info menu. This goes pretty quick as you just pick track>get info>artwork>highlight art>delete>ok for each track.
This drag/drop to the album art view page has been the simplest and most effective way I have discovered to manually import album artwork into iTunes so far. Hope this helps someone else out there. Any other methods or suggestions to do this task added to this thread will be duly noted. Thx... Oh, I am currently using iTunes 10.5.1

Can I import my own custom album art for my own music in iTunes?

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Thanks, Chris. Good suggestion. But the problem hasn't gone away. Here's what I did:
I ran Repair Permissions but it did not solve the problem. Then I ran verify disk and it checked out OK. Then I ran verify disk permissions and got these 3 i-Tunes related items in the results:
Permissions differ on "Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-rw-r-- , they are lrw-rw-r-- .
Permissions differ on "Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/iPodUpdater.framework/Versions/A/C odeResources", should be -rw-rw-r-- , they are lrw-rw-r-- .
Permissions differ on "Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunesHelper.app/Contents/CodeResou rces", should be -rw-rw-r-- , they are lrw-rw-r-- .
Then I ran repair disk permissions a second time, and the same 3 i-Tunes-related "permissions differ" items showed up in the results. Problem still not solved.
I dug down to these 3 files. Only the iTunesHelper/Contents/CodeResources had a permissions setting available. It was set to rw-rw-r. I don't know what lwr might be or what to do about it if anything.
Bottom line, I still can't drag my JPEG into the iTunes artwork box. Now it doesn't even flash.
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Try rebuilding the artwork cache. Connect your iPod to iTunes. Locate the iPod in the Sources pane on the left-hand side, then select the Music tab. Remove the tick from *Display album artwork on your iPod*, sync the iPod, reselect the option & sync again.
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Itunes 10.5 lost album art work

When I turn on Itunes after updating to 10.5, I've lost 20% of my Album Art work, and when I tell I tunes to find it, it dosn't. Anyone else having that issue?

I wanted to post this to try to help other people out there who are frustrated with the Album Art and other iTunes issues. This information builds on things I learned in past iTunes versions, but this is mostly about iTunes 10.5.1, and iOS 5.0.1. I ran in to all these problems after I updated iTunes and the iPod, and a BIG mistake I made is I have not been keeping up with backing up iTunes. I had three problems, I was missing songs, I was missing album art, and I had a problem with one of my apps I just updated. I had to find a way to find an earlier version of that app, Snaplink Mobile, and then revert to back to it. But that's another issue that doesn't affect most people, so back to the music issues. I'm not saying this will fix everyone's situations, but this will probably work for most of us. I read all the posts from people who lost all their album art. I had to do the below and 2-3 syncs before I saw most of my art back.
First, I had to find a way to get ALL the music off of both iTunes and the iPod. I can't emphasize enough what a mistake it is to reset the iPod or iTunes to factory settings before you try everything else! There were 3 videos I brought that only existed on the iPod after I reset iTunes, and if I had reset both the iPod and iTunes before thinking, I would have lost them.
So, what happened was, it is not that clear in iTunes 10.5, you have to go to the iPod tab, then the music tab, and uncheck the box that says "sync music", then at the bottom hit apply. This does not erase your music, it just removes it from iTunes. Then on the iPod, version 5.0.1, I had to go to Settings, then General, then Usage, then Music, and then there's a hidden delete button for the music. Under "all music," sweep your finger across the right side of the all music bar, and the hidden delete button will appear.
Then, it took 2-3 sync's to finally get both the iPod and the iTunes with no music. Then, I re-checked "sync music" on iTunes and on sync, all my music was back on the iPod. Then on iTunes, I clicked "consolidate library" and it copies (it does not move) all your music in to the iTunes music folder in one place. Now all my music was back, but still a lot of art issues, so on to that.
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Now, a key thing to know is in the iPod, the album cover you see is pulled from track 1 of that music! If the album art you see in iTunes is being pulled from a different track in the album, it will NOT appear in the iPod in your album list. Databases are funny things, you have to know exactly what you're doing to work on them! So, what you need to do is figure out where the album art you want for an album is at. Use "get info", and find the album art you want for an album, and then right click and "copy" it. Or, bring it up in Microsoft Paint, hit select all, and hit "copy." Once you have that image, you want to make sure it is loaded for ALL tracks in that album in iTUnes. As many have said, doing one track at a time, using "get info" is maddening and time consuming! Fortunately, there are some shortcuts!
Once you have the album cover copied, there are several methods that work to get it on the entire album, all tracks. One is, to type in the search bar on iTunes until only the album you want to work on is showing on the screen. Then you can use "select all" to highlight all the tracks in the album at the same time. I had a few instances where this method alone would not bring up just the one album, so select all will not help in that case. But fortunately, you can go through all the tracks on the album you want to work on, holding the "control" button down on the keyboard while you click multiple tracks. This allows you to select manually more than one track. Now, right click on all the highlighted tracks and hit "get info." In the box that comes up, go to where the album cover is and right click and select "paste." NOTE: You will see the check box next to the album cover come on with a check, but you will NOT see the album cover you just pasted until after you apply this. When you hit apply, you will get a message that says "do you want to edit multiple items at once?" Say yes. It will then load the right album cover for all the tracks in the album, and fix a LOT of problems you're having.
Another thing you may have to do for some or all of your albums is on the same right click menu that "get info" is in, there's another one "view in windows explorer." You may have to select all the tracks using select all, hit properties, and make sure the files are NOT set to "read only." That causes a lot of problems too. It's also possible to right click on your music folder, and make sure all files and folders are not set to read only, but all at the same time.
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Album Art Visualizer-like Jewelcase but able to handle 2 pieces of art/song

Can anyone point me toward an Album Art Visualizer that can show FRONT AND BACK album art? (ie: for songs to which you've attached 2 pieces of album art, rather than just one.)
Most "album art" shareware is designed to import album art, but I am not interested in importing. I am interested specifically in ALBUM ART VISUALIZERS -- such as JEWELCASE 1.8 by Optical Alchemy. Most "visualizers" show trippy stuff, which is fine, but I'm interested in visualizers that show the relevant album art that you've taken the pains to attach to your song files in iTunes(!)
Note that Jewelcase is *unbelieveably great*, but it could be improved upon. (Yes, I've donated to the tip jar, and I've mentioned these ideas to the designers, and I'm sure they have more lucrative things to try to do with their time-- since Apple has inexplicably NOT purchased Jewelcase's technology from Audio Alchemy -- something that would, for the legions of iTunes users worldwide, mark such a huge visual improvement over the current iTunes, that the point cannot be overstated).
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1) showing not just the one "first" piece of album art associated with each song (as the "front" album art), but that also has the ability to show the "second" piece of album art associated with the song -- as the "back" album art; and:
2) visually presenting, along with "Artist" and "Album", more song tag data -- SPECIFICALLY "YEAR".
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because that is itunes! lol
you can make your account - nothing will be charged unless you buy. the cover art is free!
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