IOS 5 bug - album artwork takes huge amounts of space

I've upgraded both my iPhone 4 and my iPad 1 to iOS 5.
Under iOS 4, the "Other" data reported by iTunes on these devices wasn't significant.
Under iOS 5, both report over 1.5GB for "Other". By browsing around the phone with iExplorer, it seems that most of this is an enormous album art database file called MediaLibrary-artwork.data in the iTunes_Control\iTunes folder - this alone is over 1.5GB. There are no more than 200 albums on either device, all of which have artwork downloaded from the Apple Store rather than embedded in the files - say 200 x 250kb JPEGs; 50MB in total.
Why is this file so huge under iOS 5? It wasn't under iOS 4 - it's wasting 5% of the space on my 32GB iPhone!
I've tried removing music and movies, deleting the iTunes_Control folder and resyncing - all this does is to shrink the file down from 1.5GB to 875MB - still orders of magnitude bigger than it needs to be.
Something is broken here, Apple...

I cannot really see this on my iPhone but this could be an explanation for many users seeing coverflow being sluggish (too much RAM taken up by the huge album artwork).

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FYI: How much room does album artwork take up on the iPod?

I was wondering the answer to this question before I tried it, so I thought I'd let other people know what I found out:
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I did a test on this several months ago, by attaching the same artwork at different resolutions. The result is that the .jpg file is added into the the .mp4 file as is - no compression on the data seems to be going on, judging from the differences in file sizes. There is definitely good reason to keep your artwork small, but not so small that the iPod has to upsample it to display (you'll get a blurry/pixellated image in that case). I keep mine all at 180x180. Since the new video iPod has 240 lines, it may be good to go a little higher. But some images you get off the web are big (and have other problems as well), so using automatic artwork loaders will work against you in this case. Personally, I don't mind spending a minute or so (while the CD imports) to clean up the image before I add it to the songs.

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