Cannot copy across album artwork?

i've just copied my itunes files across from my old computer to my new computer via an external hard drive, but for some reason the album artwork hasnt copied across. I have pressed 'get album artwork' but it says it cant be found. I had all the artwork before though? any ideas?

Sound like a) your artwork wan't embedded, and b) you just copied across the media files which you imported into a new library instead of copying the entire iTunes folder.
You could go back and embedd all the artwork using either my CreateFolderArt or Robert Jacobson's itunes_insert_artwork scripts. Alternatively you could copy the entire library over and use that (or just copy the bits that you haven't already and arrange everything in the correct folders).
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