Importing album artwork

All of my music is in MP3 format, either ripped from CD or purchased from Amazon. I am able to download the album artwork for some albums by selecting "Get Album Artwork", however some albums show "Album artwork could not be found". Is there a way to manually import the album art (Folder.jpg) that Windows Media has downloaded into iTunes? Thanks, Thomas.

Manually? Sure, just open the containing folder, select the Folder.jpg image & click CTRL-C to copy. Now select the files in iTunes, click CTRL-I to "Get Info", paste the image into the artwork box on the Info tab and click OK.
I believe there are also programs that can automate this process but I'm far to OCD to consider using them so I've not checked any of them out.
You may also find the following useful...
*How to find tracks without artwork*
To find all the tracks without artwork so that you can update them you can try http://www.stum.de/itunes-find-tracks-without-artwork/ for Windows or http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=trackswithoutartwork for Macs. Use Google, Amazon, Discogs etc. to locate relevant jpeg images. Ideally these should be square, 320x320 pixels or above and borderless to give the best results in the various menus. If you have artwork for some tracks of an album, but not others, find the album in the main music folder, select a track with artwork, right-click (Option-Click for Macs) on the art & click copy, then select all the tracks of the album, use CTRL-I or Command-I to *Get Info* and then paste the image into the artwork box.
I say 320x320 because I believe (from using TouchCopy) that it's the size used in the iPod cache so if you're going to crop or resize you might as well work to that size. Otherwise 200x200 is probably good enough.
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Then check "display album artwork" in the music preferences section when youd iPod is connected and click "apply". Then sync your iPod again.
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