Cannot get artwork correct/ consistent betweenTouch& Itunes

Question

My new 64 GB Touch. I tried using iTunes, not very helpful , I also use Media Monkey now. Better. I just got about 80% of my pod artwork right(mind you I have only loaded about 10 GB's on so far). So yesterday I sync with iTunes to load a new App, and wow! almost all of my corrected artwork has been stripped of of my Pod! Not just wrong.. but blanked out!Talk about frustrated. Perhaps someone can assist. Also i tend to load one album at a time to build my collection. Is syncing really meant for just large chunks of music from a playlist? No one has defined syncing this specifically, but thought Id ask. I wish the Bro's @ Apple would be more specific in their instruction set....Thanks

Answer 1

iTunes 12.1 should support three ways to add artwork using existing image files on your PC, all starting with right-click > Get Info and then the Artwork tab,  Then:
click the Add Artwork button, navigate to and select an image file on your computer, or
drag and drop an image file from your computer to the Artwork tab, or
copy an image to the clipboard, for example, from a web page, go to the Artwork tab and press Ctrl-V (the right-click > Paste option that was available in prior releases is not available in iTunes 12.0 or 12.1)
However, there are three cases in which you can follow these procedures but artwork is not correctly associated with or embedded in your media files:
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.