IPhone Album Art Question

Okay, I've got music playing on iPhone 4.  Phone goes into sleep mode (screen goes off, music still playing)  When I "awaken" the phone (music still playing) with some songs the song's album art appears on the 'slide to unlock' screen.  But for others my regular wallpaper is displayed.  I'd rather have the album art show up all the time when playing.  I have tried to find differences between these song files but can not.  I have added art to all song files but can not change this behavior.  I have tried letting iTunes add the album art, but this does not change the behavior either.  ALL songs show their album art when the iPhone is "awake."  It's only when "awakening" the iPhone while songs are playing that art displays for some and not for others.  Does this make sense to anyone?

Part of that 157.5mb is probably for files that iPod needs to operate. I removed the album art and other was still about 76mb on my iPod.
Also, I noticed that if I added a video, the size of other went up about 1-2mb. So there are probably some support files that get created. Also, Games would be in the Other category, as well as Contacts. Audiobooks are probably in the Audio category.
Even if you never used the iPod as a hard drive, you may want to +Enable disk use+ and open it up in a Windows Explorer window.
Ultimately, you can use the Restore button in iTunes to erase the iPod and then re-sync it.

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