Corrupted Album Art on Import

Hey everyone, I've been getting an odd problem with the latest version of iTunes.
Sometimes, when I import album art, a small strip of the image, maybe 5-10 pixels wide, is cut from the right edge of the picture and moved to the left.
I can confirm this isn't a problem with the picture itself, and nor does it happen on every set of images. It's fairly random.
Anyone heard of this? If need be, I can submit some screenshots, but it's pretty self explanatory.

Somebody else just posted about this, with screenshots.
It's easy to figure out if it's a library database problem or not.
Rather than irretrieveably deleting your original library, it might be better to try this in a guest windows account. That will leave your original library alone.
Just enable the windows guest account and start itunes.
First task is then to make SURE you have the itunes preference > advanced tab set so that it will NOT copy files to itunes folder when adding. If you have that box checked it will copy all your files when you add them and use up too much hard disk space.
Then add your itunes music folder (from your normal winders user login) and see if the artwork is still messed up.

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Apple went with Gracenote instead, which has a much more limited amount of data (which they stole from the rightful owners of that information in the formation of the company).
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You can add it manually...
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Also, I would send Apple your feedback (and ask them for this feature)...
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Message Edited by Xymith on 0-09-2006 0:06 AM

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