How is album artwork stored?

I havet updated the artwork of some albums in my Nokia Suite (NS) music library by simply dragging the jpg-file from Windows Explorer and dropping it into NS. It works fine but what I'd like to know is where, and how, does NS store the information about the art.
Does NS store detailed info about the art, or only a link to where the jpg-file is stored? Or does NS use any other mechanism to store album artwork?
Kind regards. / Jan Altena. /

I am having a similar issue with iTunes losing my album artwork. Maybe someone out there can help.
My Mac froze up on me about two hours ago--every program, every files, spinning ball of death, etc. for 20 min. (I had iTunes and numerous other programs up and running.) I had to manually shut the computer down by holding the power button down on the tower. After waiting for half an hour, I started it back up and then opened iTunes. Before it opened completely, it went through some sort of process, finding files, library, something. When it was totally up, half of my album artwork was missing (all my music was there though). I made sure in Preferences that iTunes was directed to the correct location, which is an external drive.
So, what can I do? I don't want to use the Advanced -> Get Album Artwork option because it has gotten the wrong artwork in the past. Many of the albums I had to search for on line and then drop into iTunes. How can I find out if the artwork is still there? I mean, it should be, right?

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I only get random album artwork display on my 60 gig iPod. All the artwork displays in iTunes, but only random artwork displays on the iPod.
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"An error occured while updating the default player for audio file types. You don't have enough access privlidges for this operation."
I am the sole user and administrator on this PC.
When I reconnect and recheck "Display album art", iTunes says "Optimizing artwork for iPod." Then is comes up with the error "The iPod "My iPod" cannot be updated. An unknown error occured (-50)"
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I am having the exact same problem. I have a 30 GB iPod Video, and today I noticed how the album artwork is but randomly displayed on my iPod, though all my albums have their respective artwork, and the artwork shows up in iTunes just fine when going to "Get Info". However, on my iPod, only some artwork showed up, mostly for the albums I had purchased through iTunes.
I thought I'd try to disable and re-enable album artwork in the iPod preferences, and the disabling did indeed work. However, the re-enabling did not - it attempts to update the iPod saying "Optimizing artwork for iPod", and it gets about half-way there until I get an error message saying, "The iPod 'Sandra's IP' cannot be updated. An unknown error occurred (-50)." So now I have no album artwork whatsoever.
The iPod software is version 1.1.1 and iTunes version 6.0.5. Any suggestions?

How much space does album artwork need?

I have about 15,000 songs in my iTunes library, of which only a small percentage (maybe 5-10%) have album artwork.
If I get artwork for all(or most) of the rest of the library, how much ipod space will that use?
I have 4 ipods, only one of which can display artwork. Roughly, how would all the artwork impact what I can store on the displaying ipod?
Does artwork have any impact on storage capacity for non-displaying ipods?
Thanks !
Carl

If iTunes gets the artwork, it will not affect the amount of songs on the iPod.
If you add the artwork yourself to songs, it will affect the amount you can put on the iPod as artwork you get yourself is stored as part of the song file and transferred to the iPod, even if the iPod cannot display artwork.
If the artwork is 200kB & you add that to all songs, it will be ~2.8GB just for artwork.

How do I delete album artwork that came w/ a brand new ipod =no music on it

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Hi, rebuilding your iPod's artwork cache should sort this out...
*Rebuilding Artwork Cache*
To rebuild the artwork cache, connect your iPod to iTunes. Locate the iPod in the Sources pane on the left-hand side, then select the Music tab. Remove the tick from *Display album artwork on your iPod*, sync the iPod, reselect the option & sync again.
You are probably best making a samll single album playlist to do a trial sync with. That way it should be easy to tell if the unwanted artwork has been removed. If that still doesn't work then do a full restore.
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How Can I sync iTunes album artwork with album folders on my Mac

Small Issue,
I just got a new macbook pro and uploaded copied the iTunes music folder from my PC, to an external hard drive then to the "music" folder in the Finder on my Mac. I then went into iTunes and added my library via the "add music" link (or something like that)
All the music upload and most of the album artwork was missing. I clicked "Get Album Artwork" and it replaced most of the album artwork
Here is the issue I need help with...
Some of the albums, which have album artwork inside iTunes, do not have album artwork if I go to the album folder in the finder. Is there anyway to get this artwork to sync up with the folder?
I ask because, I am kinda anal and like the artwork to show up if I play a song from the spotlight (I like playing music that way)
Am I going to have to manually add the album artwork into the finder folders?

Hi bill,
Here's an Apple Support article that tells you how to restore your IOS device from a previous backup on iTunes:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766
Hope this helps!
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Albums, artists and complications must match precisely for iTunes to get a hit. If you have a compilation, chances are you have a 'various artists' for an album artists ... there is a bit of a science to it. I've managed to get most of my 'picky ones' to match. But I have some that just won't - for whatever reason.

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I downloaded album artwork to the songs in my library, and now I want to get the artwork onto the songs on my iPod classic. Problem is, I manually manage the songs on my ipod, instead of auto-syncing.... so when I hit the "sync" button in the latest version of iTunes (11.1.1.11), nothing happens. There also isn't a "show album artwork on iPod" button anymore. I'm afraid to change my settings from manual to automatic syncing, because I have lots of playlists on my iPod that aren't in my library, and I don't know if these playlists will be removed during the auto-sync. So how can I manually get the album artwork onto my iPod?
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You can only backup iOS devices.
Sadly the old trick of removing all artwork and then adding it all back again no longer works. You may get some joy if you removed the specific album, then add it back again, butgenerally once things go wrong with artwork on a classic the only option is to restore it. Not a problem if all the media is in your library and you sync with a small number of selected playlists. If you don't have all the media see Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
tt2

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Some of the album artwork on my iPod is wrong. I've tried to change it many times but it doesn't change. I've decided that the easiest thing to do now would be to NOT display album artwork on my iPod. How do I set my iPod to NOT display album art?

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okay i've been doing some trial and error with the advice that you gave me and i finally got it down. i ended up unchecking the album artwork box and then deleting every song off the iPod. then i checked the box, loaded all the songs back on the iPod and it worked. THERE IS A SOLUTION MY FRIENDS! PROBLEM SOLVED
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Hi Folks,
How do I get iTunes on the iPad to NEVER show album artwork when clicking a song?
I go in-and-out of the iPod app quite a lot (I use the iPad to help me while practicing music and I use multiple apps), so it's frustrating to have to constantly close the album artwork.
Apologies - I saw many threads about this but none that answered how to ALWAYS stop iTunes from jumping to artwork. If I missed the correct thread, I would appreciate a link.
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That's what I thought - Apple generally has clean interfaces, so if I can't find an option to do something, it probably doesn't exist.
Thank you for a quick answer - and yes, I'll add this feedback.
I also just dropped Google feedback to PUT THE HOME LINK BACK IN THEIR LOGO.
What madness came over them to remove it??
I heard their engineers had a battle over this decision as well.

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How do i copy album artwork to all the songs in an album

How do i copy album artwork to all the songs in an album as some of the songs do not have the artwork, as with the previous version of itunes you had to load artwork individually.
I have tried the copy and paste option and that does not work
Look forward to hearing from you

"How do i copy album artwork to all the songs in an album as some of the songs do not have the artwork, as with the previous version of itunes you had to load artwork individually."
That suggests some underlying issue, as iTunes has always (AFAIR) allowed artwork to be assigned with multiple tracks in a single action. For an album, right-click on the album, select Get Info, select the Artwork tab. You then have three options:
If the artwork image exists as a file, click the Get Artwork button, browse to and select the file, then click Open.
Drag and drop the image file from Windows Explorer to the Artwork tab (previous releases also allowed drag and drop from a web browser, this functionality is missing - either by design or as the result of a bug - in iTunes 12).
If you've copied the artwork image to the clipboard, press Ctrl-V on the keyboard to paste in the image (prior to the 1st release of iTunes 12 this could also be done using right-click > Paste - hopefully this will be restored as a bug-fix in the next update)
"I have tried the copy and paste option and that does not work."
There are three possible causes for this:
The format of your media files doesn't support embedded artwork - specifically, uncompressed audio in WAV format. You'll need to convert to Apple Lossless (without loss of quality) or either MP3 or AAC (if you're OK with lossy media) before artwork images can be associated with your media.
Windows' permissions are preventing your media files from being updated when iTunes attempts to embed the images (in a perfect world iTunes should report this as an error, but it actually does nothing). To check this, find the folder that contains media of interest in Windows Explorer (by default this will be C:\Users\user_name\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Music\artist_name\album_name), right-click and select Properties, Security tab - check that your Windows user account has full control over the folder.
The media files that you're trying to add artwork to may be set to read-only in Windows. Select the folder as before in Windows Explorer, right-click > Properties and make sure that the Read-only flag is cleared.

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