IPod Artwork Copy to iPod Proceedure

Anyone else find that if they update the artwork of an album or video, and sync up your iPod, that the whole file needs to be transfered again, not just updated with the new artwork. It kind of ***** if you have a 500mb movie and all you do is update the artwork for it, or if you update a whole album it has to copy the whole album over. Not sure about this one but it also seems like it transfers the whole file if you rate the song on the iPod when you sync again. It especially ***** if you only have a USB 1.1 connection... (gotta love that the new iPods aren't firewire anymore and the USB ports aren't 2.0 standard). I am gonna get a USB 2.0 PCI card... but I digress.
Does anyone have info about the artwork update process and if there's a setting to tweak to just transfer the artwork, not the whole file?
Much appriciated.

Anyone else find that if they update the artwork of an album or video, and sync up your iPod, that the whole file needs to be transfered again, not just updated with the new artwork.
There's no way to avoid this. The artwork, ratings, lyrics, etc... are not separate files form the track they are being "added" to... they are actually embedded into the file itself, so the entire file is changed. Since the ID3 tags on the file have now been modified, iTunes will see this change and sync the newly updated file to the iPod. This is a good thing, because the changes you make to the file will remain with the file.
the USB ports aren't 2.0 standard
USB 2.0 was introduced in April of 2000, and standardized by the USB-IF towards the end of 2001. It was revised in December 2002 to make improvements for backwards compatibility. USB 2.0 is currently the standard version of USB. If your machine doesn't have USB 2.0, then that is because it was released prior to USB 2.0 becoming the standard.

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I don't download music. All my music is ripped from CDs that I own.
After I rip a CD, choosing "Get Album Artwork" from the Advanced menu normally works, and if not, I find the highest quality image I can from the web, and copy & paste that into the large box at the bottom left of iTunes.
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In reply to PT:
Why don't you paste the artwork to the track in iTunes first (fast) THEN send them over to your iPod?
I already do that. Every track has the correct artwork in place before I copy it to the iPod.
I ripped about another 10 albums yesterday. Most of the albums got their artwork automatically from the iTunes store. For a few I had to get artwork from the internet.
When I rip a CD, one of 3 different things happens:
1. The album get its artwork automatically from the iTunes store, and then when I shift-click all the tracks and drag them to the iPod icon, all the artwork transfers along with the tracks.
2. As per 1, except the artwork doesn't transfer when I copy the tracks to the iPod. I then copy the artwork from one of the tracks on the Mac, then shift-click all the equivalent tracks on the iPod, and right-click in the large box at the bottom left of the screen, and click on paste.
3. The iTunes store has no artwork for the album, so I copy the artwork from an image on the internet, shift-click all the tracks on the Mac, and right-click in the large box at the bottom left of the screen, and click on paste. I then shift-click all the tracks and drag them to the iPod icon. They all copy across, but the artwork never does, so I then shift-click all the tracks on the iPod and right-click in the large box at the bottom left of the screen, and click on paste.
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It appears that in scenario 1 though, the iPod is only storing the artwork once.
In reply to Landon Dial:
well first you go to one track, right click and press get info. you go to where it says artwork, right click the image and press copy, then you exiit out of that. then you can press ctrl and select each song you want to have that artwork. if there highlighted then its working. then right click again and press get info. then go to artwork and press paste and it should have copied the image to all of your tracks
Thanks for your input, but you've completely misunderstood my question. I know how to add artwork to tracks. What I'm trying to figure out is how to force iTunes/the iPod to only store artwork once for each album, not once for each track, even if the artwork comes manually from me finding it on the internet, not automatically via the iTunes store.
In reply to Chris CA:
When iTunes gets the artwork, there is only one copy on your computer.
That single artwork is linked with iTunes to each song on the same album.
When you add artwork yourself, it is copied directly into the ID3 artwork tag for each song. If you have a 200kB artwork file, each song will be 200kB larger.
From what you say it sounds like there's no way to force the issue then. If you have to paste in artwork yourself, then it's one copy per track, not one per album. A serious flaw which I hope Apple will address!
Using playlists is very easy to manage what goes onto your iPod.
That's true, but I don't really have any need for playlists. I want 95% of what's in my iTunes library copied across (complete albums, with artwork). It's the remaining 5% (the odd individual track, amusing audio files, and other odds & sods) that I don't want copied. Copying things manually suits me fine, and I wouldn't consider another method unless it solved the problem that this topic is about!

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We have 3 ipods in our hosuehold, one classic photo, one 3rd generation photo, and a nano from the latest generation.
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ANybody else have this problem, and is there a way around it?
Of course I have "display artwork" enabled on all ipods, and the software is up to date, on all ipods and on the mac.

I don't manually manage, so my apologies for not being really familiar with it. But my question is, have you noticed that the addition of artwork depends on if the artwork was there from the beginning or not?
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I mention this because your Nano is the newest one and I am wondering if the issue is that you have stuff on the older iPods from back before artwork was added to your library. You are now adding artwork, but the songs on the old iPods still have older versions without artwork. The Nano, being brand new, you are probably adding tracks that have since had artwork added and so it maybe seems like it is being automatically added to that iPod and not the others when maybe you just need to re-sync the same tracks to the others?
Again, just some random streams of thought and guessing.
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