Difficulties with Album Art+Organization

When I import an entire album (in this case an example is the Grey's Anatomy soundtrack) most every song in this album appears in it's own seperate album category when I display my music collection with the album or coverflow view.
Because of this--my songs are grouped in the order of the seemingly random album they are in, not in the order they were originally imported and meant to be in.
Does this make sense to anyone? And if so I could use any help anyone has to give me. Thanks! (I can do a better job describing this if someone doesn't understand)

Same problem here on a first generation ipod touch. Beyond the Genius mix ar replacing album art, video thumbnails have replaced album art on various random albums. And Podcast art has been missing and or wonky for even longer.
I found an old solution to remove the art cache from an ipod but it dosn't seem to exist anymore.
Help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Not sure of any software that will do the conversion and automatically embed album art, but LameDropXPD is a free, super-simple drag and drop conversion tool that will accept flac input: http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lamedrop.php#lamedrop-current and MP3Tag (also free) has an option to do batch embedding of album art.

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I occasionally see "double images" using Apple TV where the previous screen is overlaid with album art...Has anyone else had this issue? A reboot solves it, but only temporarily.
Screenshot is attached. Thanks!

Hi T-Shirt11's Products,
Thanks for the screen shot, very descriptive.
That looks like the first symptom in this article.
Apple TV (2nd and 3rd generation): Restoring your Apple TV
This article will help you resolve the following issues:
Unexpected or inconsistent behavior within the Apple TV interface
So I would recommend the restore as mentioned.
Restoring your Apple TV to factory settings
On Apple TV, chooseSettings > General > Reset, and then clickRestore.
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Mp3 with album art embedden in UTF8 can't see albu...

I have a big music collection, and I like to organize it pretty well. All my songs have their album art embedded in the ID3. All my songs are ID3v2.4 and using UTF8 as character encoding for all fields.
After transferring music to my nokia E71 I've realize that the album art wasn't showing. All the other ID3 info was correct. I began to look for help everywhere, and at the end I realize two really important things.
First the album art has to be saved inside the tag with the "FRONT COVER" description, it can't be saved as "OTHER", like all of my music is. That's easy to change, no problem.
Now the second and most important bug I've found is that the album art has to have ISO encoding, it can't read any album art saved with UTF8. This is a HUGE disappointment for me, because I really dislike the ISO encoding, and changing all my songs would be really painful.
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Good morning everyone. Using the great information on this site I have successfully backed up "my library". I then reformatted my hd and reinstalled win xp and itunes. I was also successful in using the awesome restore feature of itunes. "My library" is back 100%.
The only thing left is the album art and my playlists- both currently on my ipod. My question is how do I update "my library" and "my playlist" from my ipod? I am worried that if I plug in my ipod without knowing what to do then my ipod will try to match "my library" (which does not have artwork) and thus my ipod will delete the album artwork. I have several thousand songs and would HATE to lose that artwork since it would be a time consuming pain to update those manually. Also I have 20 or so playlists on my ipod. I am afraid of losing those (currently on ipod) when I connect to itunes since it will try to update and match the now empty/blank playlist currently in itunes.
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clever point...
jere7my wrote:
some album covers just aren't exactly square, particularly if the CDs are sold in cardboard flip-cases.
I deal with artwork in a more hap-hazzard way, but most of the time, i get SQUARE results...
Just Google the album title, then click the IMAGES tab. More times than not, I find the album cover in multiple sizes and about every time, at least one version that is truly square.
All i need to do then is click the image, then again at the top of the resulting Google page (to show just the image - out of it's surrounding page), then drag the image directly to the Album Artwork Placeholder in the GET INFO tab (that has already been opened on multiple items - the whole album).
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Hi there,
I have album art for all of my music which I have added myself. (I prefer to do so instead of iTunes doing it for me.) However, after purchasing a new computer using Vista, I've encountered a problem.
When I drag and drop my music into iTunes, only about half of the album art shows up. The rest either isn't loaded or isn't identified by iTunes, even though I know it's there.
In fact, you can see the album art icon associated with each file when it's organized in its folder on my C: drive. But again, for some reason, much of it isn't loading when I open the files into iTunes.
I never had this problem using XP. Is it a compatability issue or is there a simple fix I'm unaware of? I'd really appreciate any help!!
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Michael
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Alright, my apologies, Chris. I don't think I explained myself clearly enough. The files are embedded with the music (these are the same music files that worked just fine in XP.)
The artwork isn't separate from the actual music file. When you click on the actual music file, you see the ICON associated with the file, and it's the artwork. I suppose that's just a new Vista feature.
However, I embedded all of the album covers myself, and again, they worked just fine in iTunes with XP. But for some reason, only about half of the album art is being recognized by iTunes even though it's embedded into the actual tag.
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Hello, I put all my album art on all my songs which took forever last week. I updated my ipod last week and everything was all right with the album art on it. I updated it today, but now, all my album art on my ipod the same picture. On itunes, though, the album art is correct. How can I fix this without having to re-do my whole library!?? I updated my Ipod software and downloaded the latest itunes. Please help me.. Thanks so much in advance...

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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
You don't need to put the album art under Photos on the iPod. They just need to be in iTunes with the correct song.
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I have Windows Vista, and it's on an excellent machine, (for example) I can run Oblivion on the highest graphical specs with no lag. However, my iTunes cover art, or my album art is slow, even when there is no album art. I tried reinstalling itunes and I've tried searching the internet for help, but I haven't seen any answers.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
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.....hey everyone. I have a issue with my itunes art work. Well it's on my gif's computer. She made the mistake of lending it to her little niece, which has a zone. There was a update prompted to update itunes and zone software. She updated both at the same time. Now her music is missing it's album art and now the zone software shows it has it(Music she imported from cd into itunes). Now my thought is that she made the zone software convert it to WMA format. But I check to see in my itunes folder in my music and it's still there. I try to access the album info in itunes, and even though the information is correct to the T, itunes say's it's not there. Can anyone help me with this issue. Thank you very much.

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