Cover Art Issues

I got a strange issue with the cover art on my Ipad 2. I added the artwork to the song on Itunes and can see it no problem on Itunes coverflow view. Now when I look at it on my Ipad 2 under songs it pops up when you click the song. When you look at it under albums it show the artwork but when you look under artist it does not show the cover art. What am I missing here?

Never mind I didn't have the composer filled in under the get info for the song.

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I actually thought of that last night after I posted that, so I did a test:
I played the first song in an album that had cover art present. When I hit the "next track" button, the album art promptly disappeared. I then went back to the previous menu and went straight to the song where the cover art disappeared and selected that one. Once again, hitting the "next track" button made the album artwork disappear.
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I noticed this happened after I did a bit of editing so it may be my fault. Several of my audiobooks are series. For example, Christopher Paolini wrote the Inheritance Cycle which consists of Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr & Inheritance. I recently combined the files into one "album" while letting the track names differentiate between the individual books.
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1 Eragon (Part 2).m4b
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2 Eldest (Part 2).m4b
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Hi garobinson51,
I finally managed to solve this annoying issue on my iPad 3 with iOS 7 (7.0.2)
I tried editing the info of a song from within iTunes 11 with no luck. I also tried playing a song from an album or an entire album with no luck as well.
Finally, while I was "playing" with my iTunes library I added a new album to the iPad and it actually kept the right cover art. This led me to think that the root cause of the issue is with some metadata that the iPad keeps between iOS versions and is not even reset during a Settings->General->Reset->Reset all settings (I had to reset all settings to solve another annoying problem with the Music app where songs were not actually sorted).
At that point, from within iTunes, I tried removing a single artist from my iPad (I'm not synching the whole iTunes library, but only selected albums and artists), synching, adding it back and synching again. It actually worked.
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It may eventually help trying to remove all music from the iPad through Settings->General->Usage->Storage:Music (just swipe left on "All music" and select "Delete") and then synching the music back from your computer, but I've not tried it since the problem was solved with the other method.
I really think that this version of iOS 7 tried to preserve to many information and settings between installations and this led to an overall instability for the device/app. Moreover it also added confusion to the end user changing the way many things used to work (e.g. Music app layout, library sorting, artist pictures download from iTunes Match, etc) and letting many new features go undocumented (i.e. you'll learn them only through usage and practice. The manual doesn't cover them).
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