Default "No Album Art" Picture

You know the grey default "no album art" picture that shows up when you don't have an album art...
Is it possible to change it? If so, how can I change it?

it actually is possible all u have to do is find the artwork online, save it to ur computer, then drag the picture from wtvr file u saved it in onto itunes....at the bottom left of itunes theres the controls for repeat and shuffle and on the far right of those controls is a button to show album artwork...click the button so the album artwork is shown even if u dont have it and if u dont have it it will say drag album artwork here thats where u drag the pic to

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Welcome to the forums.
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I would like to solve something I've been having trouble with for a while now.
I am one of those people who like to only see the album art of a playlist I created. So, I don't like it when there are a 1000 different album arts, a different one for every single song, when I tild my iPod touch 4th generation to landscape mode. I have created 3 playlists in total, so only want to see 3 different album arts.
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My iTunes is in Dutch, hope that doesn't cause difficulty.
Greets from the Netherlands.
(Sorry if my English is difficult to understand)

iOS Luc wrote:
Thank you very much for your respone.
I'm new here and didn't realize that correction would bump this discussion.
It does, and that's fine as long as you're not too impatient. (Though I've probably missed what you've corrected.)
Isn't it a bit strange that iTunes doesn't have some sort of button: 'put all the songs in this playlist/album under one artwork?'
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