Cover art not visible

On the new iTunes music library, there is supposed to be cover art shown for every album. But it's not there. How do I change that?

Oops Im sorry I slightly misread your first post, I thought you said "there is supposed to be cover FLIP art shown for every album. But it's not there"
I read a word you didn't type and thought you was talking about the "Cover flip" feratuer in iTUnes not working
I see now your talking about cover artwork not being downloaded and added to the songs. iTUnes only has artwork for songs it has in its store. Also the tags on the song have to be EXACT for the most part. FOr example....
I had the album "Missy Elliott - So Addictive" and it would not find the artwork. I knew they had to have her album in the store so I manually looked in the itunes store for her album. This is now they had it listed
Artist: Missy Elliott
Album: Miss E...So Addictive (Note the 3 dots between E and So)
Soon as I changed the album name to that (With the 3 dots) BOOM artwork came right up

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I am having a problem with the cover art as follows:
1. I have added cover to each song be it a downloaded song from an album or a ripped song from a CD. I did this by (a) downloading/getting the album cover art (b) copying the cover art from the ARTWORK PANE (c)selecting all songs from an album (d) selecting GET INFO for all songs in the album (e) pasting the cover art into the "common" ARTWORK FIELD and seeing said artwork therein (f) pressing OK.
2. I then went to confirm that the artwork had been added to each song and discovered the following:
a) highlight/select song --> right click --> select GET INFO --> select ARTWORK tab --> no artwork appears regardless of the amount the "size slider" is moved.
b) highlight/select song --> right click --> select GET INFO --> select ARTWORK tab --> right click --> select copy --> open Word for Windows --> right click --> select past --> cover art is displayed.
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joel_sonos user wrote:
Thanks to all who took the time to read this post and consider the problem...will keep everyone nformed should it occur again...
Are you accusing me of multiple personalities?
Glad it seems to have sorted itself out.
Cheers,
Patrick

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i just tested this pretty thoroughly... iphone 5s, ios 8.1, spotify app1.9.0.2744 - no matter what I do, or where I mark a song for offline use, if I play the song after (offline or online), the album art does not show up in the expanded view of the song playing. It does show up on the small view as you are looking at the queue or other places where there is small album art.
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Hi mr_proud,
I made exactly the same experience by draging and dropping artwork into the artwork window. Sometimes even showing a black window for the artwork. In some cases it helped to restart iTunes. Nevertheless it's confusing. I guess it's some kind of bug and the developers should keep an eye on it.
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Thanks for trying. I looked at all of my converted movies i did in the last year and yeah, they are all of the protected kind, I just didn't pay attention. Ctrl Alt Del Reboot.
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