IPod library album art problems

So I just synced my iPad, and go to open my music library, and find that some of the album art has become... larger than normal, and are obscuring the view of everything else. Any help?
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I have this issue too, bit frustrating.

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Hi i've just got a new 30Gb ipod video and synced it with a g4 powerbook. Everything worked fine until i tried to turn it on and listen to music. All songs without album art work fine but the ones with (which is about 2/3 of them) seem to be causing porblems. When i start a playlist the first track doesn't play, instead he ipod tries to load the album art. As soon as the album art appears, it skips onto the next track without playing anything at all, very frustrating! when eventually a song does start playing there is a 2 second silence after the song's started while it tries to load album art again. I thought maybe it was the art itself but songs bought from itunes with the official apple artwork appear to be worse if anything!?! anyone had any similar problems/solutions?
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I'm having a problem with this as well. I bought a 2G iPod Touch for my gf and after putting in some of the albums from my library, certain albums are not showing the correct album. For instance, as I put in Nelly Furtado's album, it would end up showing Ne-Yo's album cover. I checked in iTunes to make sure the correct album was in there which it was. Is this some kind of bug?

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After I updated to the latest firmware 2.1 my album art started to lag as I scrolled through the album art. Before it was nice and smooth but whenever I scroll through the albums some albums appear to be missing but appear after I select them. At first I thought it was because i had to much music but i still noticed after all my music was deleted and only a few albums were present. How do I fix this? I tried reinstalling the firmware and restoring my itouch but nothing has changed.

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Sync and album art problems with iPhone 3G

The other day my iPhone was sitting in the cradle syncing and I noticed iTunes (8.02) was deleting the apps from the phone. I cancelled that sync and in iTunes I saw that the "Sync Applications" checkbox was unchecked, but I hadn't unchecked it. I then rechecked the box and synced my apps back onto the phone.
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I bit the bullet and checked all the boxes and synced, and the phone did not go through with the threat to erase all my content. It just synced the one changed playlist instead. False alarm. However, the album art issue remains.

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So basically, I started having album art problems recently where the album art would appear correctly in my iTunes, but shows up on my iPod as a black square.
I was told to turn off album art and turn it back on, which helped, but then some of my album art just stopped showing up altogether (even though it's still visible in iTunes).
So I'm wondering what options I have? I was thinking about just completely wiping off all the album art and re-applying it; but #1, I don't know what the easiest way to wipe them off would be; #2, I don't know if re-doing all my album art will even fix the problem. With my luck, it'd have the same issue after I redid all my album art >.<

Not sure if this will be of any help but, if you're willing...
In itunes, convert the problem songs/albums' ID3 Tags to v2.3, even if they're already v2.3. (Right Click on song(s), on the menu that appears, "Convert ID3 Tags")
Then uncheck "Display Album Artwork on ipod", sync ipod. Then re-enable the "Display Album Artwork on ipod" again and sync it again.
Another possibility is that the artwork for those songs is, somehow, unpalatable with the ipod. If so, just get artwork from another source (amazon, wiki, etc.) on one or two songs (just to see if it works) and sync, see if it works then.
Don't know if these will work though. Good luck and keep us informed.

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ok, so i just recently discovered the "get album art" function in iTunes. works great. the only problem is that its in my library, but wont update to my ipod. suggestions?

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I have the latest version of iTunes for Windows and I have never noticed this before on a previous version, but when I try to add album art to most (over 90%) of songs, the addition won't stay if I select another song.
Even worse, if I try to add art while the song is playing, not only will the addition dissappear, the song corrupts in the process. It's as if the jpeg file is inserted into the audio data itself, as the song will grow by a number of seconds (the growth consists of skips and repeats.)
I'm using iTunes with Windows Media Center. I have iTunes maintain my music folder, while Media Player / MCE monitors nothing. I also have a Media Center Extender setup (an Xbox360) that accesses my music as well (through the media player / MCE database.)
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Use the SHIFT-Launch iTunes method to get iTunes waiting for a library. Stick the iPod in disk mode and connect to the computer. Browse *My Computer* and right-click on the drive for the iPod, click Properties, then click Tools. Under Error-checking, click *Check Now*. Under Check disk options, select *Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors* (Optional - takes ages but a good idea if you've reason to suspect physical damage). Click Start. Mac users should run *Disk Utility / Repair Disk* for the equivalent process. This should find and correct any errors in the logical & physical structures of your iPod's hard drive which may be causing the problem. When the process is complete disconnect the iPod and then reset it (hold Menu+Select ). Cancel the waiting iTunes dialog and then try to connect in the normal way.
If that still doesn't work you could try Erase your iPod - The Super Fix for most iPod Problems. Basically a low level format of the iPod’s hard drive to get around whatever problems are stopping iTunes from working with it.
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****FIX **** update to 7.0 - Album Art problem- Disable/ReEnable failed

I have a 30gb videopod and updated to version 7. I too was experiencing problems with some tracks not showing recently added album art.
I tried disabling and re-enabling album art on both my powerbook and xp computer and which lead to no album art was showing at all. Disabled and re-enabled numerous times and couldn't get any album art to show.
In Windows, I resolved my issue by removing version 7.0 and installing back version 6.05. Fired up 6.05, Disabled and re-enabled album art and all my album art was back on my ipod. *Sigh of relief of not restoring ipod"
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"The file iTune Library.itl cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes"
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for Mac Users
- go to Macintosh HD > Users > YOUR-USERID > Music > iTunes
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marx23 - your tip worked great!! I re-installed iTunes 6.0.5 with the desktop trick. Unchecked, checked, and finally - album art is back up and running on my iPod.
When I updated to iTunes 7.0 I lost album art display on 7000 songs that probably took me 100+ hours to associate. After I got iTunes 7.0 I spent over 3 hours surfing the discussion boards and Apple's tips and trying different things. All the tricks with the check box, uncheck box, eject, repeat while using iTunes 7.0 didn't work. Finally I went back to iTunes 6.0.5.
Thank you so much for the tip!
Hope everybody else finds your post, it's great!!!!!
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My album art is not showing up properly on my iPod touch.
It shows up fine everywhere on my iTouch (including artists, cover flow, now playing etc.) with the exception of this section:
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SAME problem here. Very frustrating as I feel I'm playing 'Whack a Mole'... I update the artwork (which I know is already correct as per previous settings and iTunes) on the problem album(s) and then they are correct on the iPhone, but then a different album(s) exhibit the problem.
I've even cleared the downloaded artwork and saved proper JPG files to the albums(s) and it still does not clear up all the issues.
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How come my i pod skips songs when played...album art problems...

the songs play fine on i tunes...but when i play them on my i pod, they simply skip to the next song of my playlist ...my album art doesent show no more too..whats wrong? i use a 30g video just incase

Try the following:
Try resetting your iPod...
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If that doesn't work, make sure your iPod's software is up to date...
iTunes
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If you updated and the problem persists, try a restore...
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If after the songs stop skipping there is still no album art...
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So now I try to move my library (including covers) to my Dell lap top. I changed the xml file to point to the new library location. The album art work folder has two folders in it, cache and download.
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When I had my iPod photo, I found that adding the artwork to songs in iTunes, BEFORE adding them to your iPod would make the artwork appear on the iPod screen, but adding the artwork to existing song files already on the iPod was not working.
It's a pain to re-add all your songs, but if you are as anal about your music and iPod management as I am, you'll find it is worth it.
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yeah i had that too. Well i had it when first playing a track, then going over to photo slideshow. When ending slideshow to menu back to now playing, the art work would be noise. click to full screen artwork, it would be fine, click back to minimize in time/sec mode of track, it would be noisy again. I restored my ipod to earlier update. I think this new update caused problems.

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One day, while is was not paying attention, my one year old daughter was walking around with my iPod photo. So naturally I gently removed my most prized possession from her greasy grasp and analyzed it for damage. No damage was done, but I noticed something peculiar. The songs album art was being displayed in the large format and it was staying that way! I spent the next several hours trying to repeat the glitch and this is what I came up with:
Step 1:
First, select a song that has album art and play it like normal. While the song is playing, press and hold the select button first, and then press and hold the menu button. If the screen changed while you did this , then start over, otherwise proceed to Step 2.
Step 2:
While still holding down the select and menu buttons, let go of the select button and then release the menu button. Timing in this step is very crucial. You must let go of the select button first and the menu button immediately after. If you have done this correctly, the screen will either show the full screen album art, or go back to the previous menu. If your iPod is now in the previous menu just select the song you are playing and the album art should show up immediately.
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I can reproduce these glitches without any problems. If this works for you, please let me know by email or by a reply to this post!
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Raymond,
The key here is not how long you would hold the buttons, but the timing involved with releasing them. Some things to remember are:
The song must have album art.
You must be in the progress bar screen. (initial screen)
Press and hold the select button first, and then press and hold the menu button.
The tricky part is releasing the select and menu buttons. The select button must be released first and then the menu immediately afterwards. I mean within a tenth of a second. (Almost as if you are releasing them at the same time!)
It does not matter at all if you hold the select button for 10 seconds before pressing the menu button, just as long as you release the menu button after the select button.
Hope this helps!
Feel free to rate the initial post if this works out for you.

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