Complicated itunes / ipod Album Art Question?

This is a rather complicated question so I hope someone can help me. I have a 5th gen video ipod and run itunes (latest version 7.5) on Windows XP. I keep all my music on my home computer, syncing it daily with my ipod. I take my ipod to work and attach it to my PC there so I can listen through the speakers. I have to switch my ipod to the Manually Manage Music to be able to play it on that machine. What I want to do is see all the album artwork as I play them on that machine but only the artwork for music I have bought from itunes shows up on the work computer. All the art is on my ipod because if I listen to it detached from the PC all my art shows up on it. And I do have my ipod set to sync the album art.

If you can find the cover art you want online, you can just tell iTunes to forget the artwork for those songs and add the art you want manually.

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ITunes / iPod Album art wierdness

I just got an iPod nano so I wanted to try and get the album art to display on the iPod when playing the songs. I transferred a whole bunch of my to the iPod before I realized who how do this.
So, I would select the iPod (not iTunes) library, select the album, go to a site with album art work, drag the art work to the art work section, it would update, then move on to the next. I did this for every album on the iPod. After that I did the same thing, except to the music in my iTunes library.
When I plug in my iPod and select an album, the album art shows up no problem in the iTunes interface..
When I use my iPod, only the albums where I added the alb um art to iTunes show up.
I do not have auto sync, or auto fill, or any of that stuff enabled.
What I'm wondering, can you not attach artwork to files already on the iPod, and if so, do I have to delete all the audio on my iPod, update all the album art in iTunes and transfer again? If so that's 1. a bummer and 2. very un-Apple.
Let me know if you've seen this before or can help.
Thanks,
Adam

If your iPod is set to update automatically then try this:
iTunes 6
1. Connect your iPod
2. Disable "Show Album art" in iTunes>Edit>Preferences>iPod.
3. Syncronise the iPod with iTunes. (Disconnecting and then reconnecting your iPod will do the trick)
4. Re-enable "Show Album Art" in iTunes>Edit>Preferences>iPod.
5. Syncronise the iPod again.
iTunes 7
If your iPod is set to update automatically then try this:
1. Connect your iPod
2. Disable "Display album artwork" in iPod>Music tab and click Apply.
3. Syncronise the iPod with iTunes.
4. Re-enable "Display album artwork" in iPod>Music tab and click Apply.
5. Syncronise the iPod again.

Serious Album Art Question!

here is the situation,
for the songs i have purchased it works perfectly,
however, for other songs that i have that i have applied album art too, even though when i select it in the iTunes the album art is the same for the whole album, for other albums it seems to pick other random album art for about 75% of the songs, this happened twice overall,
in that i have deleted all the songs and reloaded them twice so far and it still doesn't work
please help, feel free to ask any specific questions
Windows XP

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
So the wrong album art is showing up for some songs on your iPod?
Try this...
Connect the iPod to the computer. Go to edit-->preferences. Click the iPod tab. Make sure "Show artwork on iPod" is checked. If it is, uncheck it. Click ok. Now go back and recheck the option. Click ok. Wait for the iPod to update. Is the artwork now there and displaying correctly?
If not, then do the same steps again. However, this time, let the iPod update and then eject it once you uncheck the option. Then disconnect it from the computer. Now reconnect it and enable the option. iTunes should say "optimizng artwork for iPod"
If that doesn't work, you may need to restore...
Restore the iPod
btabz

Ever since I turned on ITunes match, album art shows in coverview but not in other views on my iphone. Anyone else having this problem?

ever since I turned on ITunes match, album art shows in coverview but not in other views on my iphone. Anyone else having this problem?

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Displaying ipod album art in itunes

I have a question about the iPod's display of album art in iTunes when it is plugged into my computer. I had been getting really frustrated for the better part of the evening after adding a bunch of album art to my music, updating it on the iPod (I do manual update so I dragged the songs onto the iPod after adding the art), and then clicking on them in the iPod's library in iTunes only to see that there was no album art there. What gives?
However, I realized that I was getting annoyed for no reason when I checked it out in the iPod itself, after I disconnected it. All of the album art is there.
So here is the strange behavior I have observed this evening: if I had to go out on the internet and find cover art myself, and add it manually to the files in iTunes, it displays in the iPod's library in iTunes. If iTunes helpfully went out and found the cover art for me automatically, it does NOT display in the iPod library in iTunes (although it is actually there when you go to play the music on the disconnected iPod). I went through the iPod's library in iTunes and this is consistently what is happening.
Obviously this isn't a life-or-death kind of situation, but I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this behavior or knows why this happening. For what it's worth, my entire iTunes library is on an external hard drive, and all of my music is on there in the same place. Do you think iTunes is storing the art in separate places depending on whether I added it or it found it on its own? Would this even matter? I am very curious about this. Thanks for any insight anyone has for me.
5g iPod (video) 80 GB Mac OS X (10.4.8) iTunes 7

when i play the music on the iPod the albums show up
no problem... but when the iPod is connected to
iTunes, and i'm browsing my ipod via itunes, only
some album art shows up...
IE: beck guero, has album art in the itunes library,
it also has the art on the ipod if i play it with the
ipod disconnected from my mac. it DOES NOT show album
art when connected to itunes and view the ipod within
itunes...
whats the deal? some albums are just fine, but the
vast majority of them dont display the art while in
itunes... again, if i disconnect the ipod and view
them on the ipod, there is no problem all albums
display.
any help is appreciated.
Just so you know, you're not going crazy and you're not the only one that's seeing this. I'm seeing the same behavior with a 30GB 5G iPod and iTunes7 under Windows XP.
30GB 5G iPod with 1.2 firmware Windows XP iTunes 7

Complicated album art question

here is what i have: an album made up of songs by different artists - such as an 80's album. I have put the individual album art for each song, rather than one generic album cover.
so, while viewing the albums in Cover Flow, the first track is generally the album art that is displayed for the 80's album. However, is some rare occasions, a random track within the album is displayed for the album art.
any idea why, and an idea how to set the album art to come from the first track?

Part of that 157.5mb is probably for files that iPod needs to operate. I removed the album art and other was still about 76mb on my iPod.
Also, I noticed that if I added a video, the size of other went up about 1-2mb. So there are probably some support files that get created. Also, Games would be in the Other category, as well as Contacts. Audiobooks are probably in the Audio category.
Even if you never used the iPod as a hard drive, you may want to +Enable disk use+ and open it up in a Windows Explorer window.
Ultimately, you can use the Restore button in iTunes to erase the iPod and then re-sync it.

My new iTunes messed up my iPods album art

I updated my 5G video iPod... and everything seemed fine until I tried playing an album on my iPod after the update. Apparenlty if I'm playing, lets just say the song "One", by U2 on the album Achtung Baby, for example... it will play fine, BUT IT WILL SHOW ANOTHER ALBUM'S ARTOWKR WITH THE ALBUM. For example instead of showing Achtung Baby's cover for the song "One", it shows the cover for a Pearl Jam album or something.
I have no idea how to make it stop, and just show the normal album art. I've played Mars Volta, Pearl Jam... etc... and they all show other bands album art for the albums. It seems to be entirely thrown off and doesn't know how to show an albums PROPER album art.
Someone please tell me they know how to fix this.

Highlight the ipods name in iTUnes. Hit the "Music" tab and UNCHECK "Display Album artwork on your ipod" then hit "Apply" in the lower right corner of itunes. THis will update your ipod. Wait for it to finish updating.
When its done updating just CHECK the box again and hit "Apply" again and let it update.
What happend is the ipods DB (Database) got allittle "Fudged up" and doing these steps makes iTUnes rewrite the ipods DB. Its not an issue with the update or iTUnes, its happened in other versions

Download ipod album art but NOT into itunes

I keep all my music on my ipod. some of it had album art when it was on my computer, which transfered fine, and I can see it on the ipod. now I would like to update all the album art on the ipod, but none of the music is on my computer. there seem to be many freeware utilities out there to update album art but they are all for itunes and not just the ipod. I will not move all the music back to my computer just to get the art; there must be a way to do this easily. I'd also like to avoid setting up an itunes store account just for the privilege. thanks!

Maybe reading this article might give you some help:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60950
m

IPod Album art different/incorrect then iTunes

I have an iPod 5G & the album art is displaying different album art for some of the songs then iTunes has. I have tried
1. restoring the software on the iPod.
2. removing & synching my entire selected playlist library to my iPod.
If I find a song that displays the wrong album art on the iPod then the correct album art within iTunes - I unselect the song in iTunes, sync my iPod, recheck the song in iTunes, & then synch this sometimes fixed the song(s).
Is anyone else having this problem? Any suggestions of how to fix them ALL?
Thank you!
Peace~
J

If your iPod is set to update automatically then try this:
iTunes 6
1. Connect your iPod
2. Disable "Show Album art" in iTunes>Edit>Preferences>iPod.
3. Syncronise the iPod with iTunes. (Disconnecting and then reconnecting your iPod will do the trick)
4. Re-enable "Show Album Art" in iTunes>Edit>Preferences>iPod.
5. Syncronise the iPod again.
iTunes 7
If your iPod is set to update automatically then try this:
1. Connect your iPod
2. Disable "Display album artwork" in iPod>Music tab and click Apply.
3. Syncronise the iPod with iTunes.
4. Re-enable "Display album artwork" in iPod>Music tab and click Apply.
5. Syncronise the iPod again.

Very Strange and nasty iTunes (not iPod) Album Art Problem

Hi,
I have the latest version of iTunes for Windows and I have never noticed this before on a previous version, but when I try to add album art to most (over 90%) of songs, the addition won't stay if I select another song.
Even worse, if I try to add art while the song is playing, not only will the addition dissappear, the song corrupts in the process. It's as if the jpeg file is inserted into the audio data itself, as the song will grow by a number of seconds (the growth consists of skips and repeats.)
I'm using iTunes with Windows Media Center. I have iTunes maintain my music folder, while Media Player / MCE monitors nothing. I also have a Media Center Extender setup (an Xbox360) that accesses my music as well (through the media player / MCE database.)
None of my music files are tagged as read-only. I have a suspicion that the cause of the problem may be along similar lines (file permissions, access, etc.) but nothing I've
tried works (including resetting all file permissions.)
In addition, none of the iTunes Art Importers work. In using the most popular one (iTunes Art Importer,) the program crashes to a .NET/CLR debugger when I try to import art. Looking at the stack trace, it appears as if the error concerns DLL access.
Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated, as this is a pretty horrible bug (as it has ruined several songs.)
Thanks,
Mark Roboff
Dell w/ Windows MCE 2005 Rollup 2 Connected to xbox 360 Media Center Extender

Use the SHIFT-Launch iTunes method to get iTunes waiting for a library. Stick the iPod in disk mode and connect to the computer. Browse *My Computer* and right-click on the drive for the iPod, click Properties, then click Tools. Under Error-checking, click *Check Now*. Under Check disk options, select *Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors* (Optional - takes ages but a good idea if you've reason to suspect physical damage). Click Start. Mac users should run *Disk Utility / Repair Disk* for the equivalent process. This should find and correct any errors in the logical & physical structures of your iPod's hard drive which may be causing the problem. When the process is complete disconnect the iPod and then reset it (hold Menu+Select ). Cancel the waiting iTunes dialog and then try to connect in the normal way.
If that still doesn't work you could try Erase your iPod - The Super Fix for most iPod Problems. Basically a low level format of the iPod’s hard drive to get around whatever problems are stopping iTunes from working with it.
Have you tried connecting the iPod to another computer to see if the issues is focused on the iPod or iTunes?
tt2

New iTunes update and album art question

I like the new look/features of iTunes but the option where it will add album art to your songs, does that only apply to songs in your library or will it update the ones already on your iPod? I am trying to see if there is a way but no luck yet. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Not as far as I know, apple "Thinks" the songs you have on the ipod are on iTUnes so there not really pushing for a feature like that.
You can add them nback to the PC and back them up, or use the backups you have

Unique Album Art Question

I have spent days scouring these message boards to make sure I wasn't asking a repeat question. I am running iTunes 7.3.2 and I'm having a problem with album art making it to my video iPod. My iPod will not display album art for half of my music that HAS ALBUM ART APEARING IN ITUNES. I have copied and pasted, and I have clicked and dragged, but my iPod will not display album art for some of my music. EVEN SONGS I HAVE PURCHASED FROM THE iTMS.
When my iPod is plugged in to my computer, all of the tracks appear to have album art, but when I unplug it and select songs on my iPod, there are some songs, and some entire albums that HAVE ALBUM ART, but my iPod ignores this. Any suggestions?
I wasn't sure if this was an iTunes problem, or an iPod problem.

Have you tried restoring your ipod? That would be an easy, first step, provided you have all of your music and media still in your itunes library.

Yet another missing album art question...

OK, I just received my second 80 GB Apple ipod Classic. The first one was defective out of the box and this (these?) is (are?) my first ipod. I'd heard all the horror stories about itunes and since I have other media players, ripping and tagging utilities I'm happy with, I really have no intention of using itunes for anything more then updating my ipod and manually synching my music.
I do have one question though. How do I get album art to display for my music? First of all, I unchecked every option in itunes that I could find about updating missing data and downloading album art. I even unchecked the box under My ipod that says "show album art" (maybe mistakenly thinking that was referring to synching album art. All of my mp3's are tagged properly and have the album art, scanned by me from my actual discs embedded in the file in the album art tag. I would think these should display if the ipod is capable of displaying album art, regardless of any checkboxes I've fooled with in itunes but all I get on my ipod are little gray boxes with black musical note symbols in them.
What did I do wrong? Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Sicnerely,
- Byron Followell

bfollowell wrote:
I even unchecked the box under My ipod that says "show album art" (maybe mistakenly thinking that was referring to synching album art.
That's indeed the reason your album art doesn't show on the iPod. Check this box, maybe resync, and the iPod should show the images you embedded in the mp3-files.
Matko
Btw, If you scan and add album art yourself a lot, you might want to have a look at this site :
http://www.albumartexchange.com/

IPod Album Art Mixup, Choppyness, Doesn't Sleep

I have a few questions about my new iPod 5.5G 80GB I was hoping to have cleared up. Some of these may simply be me doing something wrong on the iPod.
1/ When I'm scrolling through some podcasts on my iPod, as well as some music, I'll see the album art of another song, podcast, or video in it's album art part. As an example, I went to play CNET's Buzz out Loud and got the album art for Pirates of the Caribbean instead of the Buzz Out Loud logo. Is this a bug or something I'm doing wrong? How can I fix it?
2/ I've noticed that menu scrolling and some game play (Brick, specifically) is really choppy. Almost every five or ten seconds when playing Brick and having music playing in the background, the ball will freeze in mid air for a split second. It does this when I'm scrolling through my songs too... on my iPod 2g mini silver 4gb, I never had problems with this. It may be because of my amount of music, I'm not sure. It just won't go through all of the songs instantly. I have to wait a second for it to get to the next screen of songs, almost like it's having to think real hard to load a single bit of text.
3/ The last thing I'm having troubles with is that it won't sleep when I hold down the play button. Sometimes, it will, and sometimes it won't. Most of the time, it won't. I then have to do a hard restart to get it to sleep, because even selecting it in the menu won't put it to sleep.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Other than those three issues, I'm absolutely loving my iPod. It's a huge step up from my iPod mini!

I have the same problem. I just bought a 80GB Video ipod a couple of weeks ago. I have the newest version of itunes. I spent hours getting all the artwork on the itunes, synched my ipod and it all worked fine and then all of a sudden after my last synch (yesterday and after the last update) the artwork is all messed up. It displays the wrong artwork for the song and artist I pick. And when I click on the artwork (from my ipod) it shows a different album/artist artwork. This is really frustrating considering I put so much time in to make sure that all the albums had the correct artwork and that they were properly organized. Anybody have any solutions or been having the same problem?
Deleting the artwork is not an option. It shows up fine in itunes but is all messed up on the ipod and it is almost every file if not every file. So deleting and reinstalling over 7,000 songs would take forever.

Problem with ipod album art

hello. I am new to this forum, but i have a quick question that hopefully, someone might be able to answer
i am currently running the color display ipod (not video.) my problem is that when i put music on to it from itunes, the songs with album art cannot be read by the pod. i did not know this when i added all the art, or else i would have avoided doing so.
i was wondering if it is possible to delete the art so i can transfer the songs to the ipod. it seems simple enough, but my attempts were futile.
anyone know how to remove the art from the itunes files?

yeah.
you right click-get info-artwork and then click on the picture you want to delete as the delete button will be greyed out until you click on the artwork. When you click on the artwork the button then becomes functional.
good luck

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