IPod Syncing Problem for Album Artwork

So everytime I try to sync my iPod Touch using iTunes,most of the artwork for my albums/songs changes. I've had this happen several times in the past. It seems that many albums take the artwork from one album.

When I try to check the "Display album artwork" box and update my ipod, I get this error message:
The iPod cannot be updated. An unknown error occured (-50).

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- See:
iPod touch: Hardware troubleshooting
- Try another cable. Some 5G iPods were shipped with Lightning cable that were either initially defective or failed after short use.
- Try another charging source
- Inspect the dock connector on the iPod for bent or missing contacts, foreign material, corroded contacts, broken, missing or cracked plastic.
- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

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ipod 2.2.1 touch OS10.6.8 itunes 10.6.1
The photos sync but the calendars and contents will not. I keep getting this error message...
«iTunes could not sync information to the iPod «name of iPod» because a sync session could not be started.»

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See this post: https://discussions.apple.com/message/12799057#12799057
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My problem is that I'm unable to view album artwork on my ipod in full screen, whether it's from the itunes store or if I copy/paste an album cover pic myself. You can see the artwork fine on the left next to the song/artist/album, it's just blank when you want to see it full screen. The thing is that my ipod is Windows formatted and this has only been happening since I got a Mac and have been doing all my itunes/ipod stuff on it. I wanna know if this is normal for a Windows formatted ipod on a Mac or if there is a way to fix this (without formatting it to Macintosh) because all my other songs with artwork that I synced with Windows show up fine in full screen view. Please let me know. Thanks.
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After you added the album work to your songs, did you import or re-import those songs to the IPOD?

Every time I connect my iPod to sync new music, other music files are updated while syncing and the album artwork is deleted during this process. How do I stop this from happening?

The album artwork for my music that is already on my iPod is being deleted every time I sync new music to my iPod. I currently have no album artwork at all, only for the new music that had been synced recently.

First try
http://www.mcelhearn.com/deleting-the-itunes-album-artwork-cache-folder-may-reso lve-problems-with-album-art-displaying/
Next
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync/delete all music and resync
To delete all music go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage>Manage Storage>Music>Tap edit in upper right and then tap the minus sign by All Music
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

Maximum Resolution For Album Artwork - iPod Photo

Please could someone let me know the maximum resolution at which album artwork is displayed on the iPod photo.
I would like to optimise my music library and need this info.
Thanks in advance,
Ben
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So no real answers here yet. I too would like to know the resolution at which the album artwork is displayed on my iPod photo in order to optimise my music library.
If either of you find the answer please let me know - benedict dot mortimer at gmail dot com. I'm going to pose this question in a new feed now...
Thanks.
ps - I see Google image search as the best way to find album artwork.
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Any thoughts would be helpful. This is totally annoying.

I suspect the iPod uses artwork from it's own cache rather than the one embedded in the media file. Sometimes the incorrect/black artwork can be fixed simply by removing & then resyncing the affected album, but occasionally all this does is create a problem elsewhere. In these cases unchecking the option to include artwork, syncing, then reselecting the artwork option & syncing again usually does the trick, as if forces iTunes to completely rebuild the artwork cache on the iPod.
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Hi. The artwork cache has become corrupt and needs to be rebuilt. Connect your iPod, on the summary tab uncheck the option to include artwork, sync the ipod, reselect the artwork option, and sync again.
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in this context, that one is usually associated with damaged album art files.
are you able to identify which album art it is always quitting on? if so, if you delete that particular bit of album art, does the sync go through properly without the -50?

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How come in the new iPod on the iPhone when I am inside the "Artist" listing for my music, it shows completely random artwork from previous/newer albums of artists I have? This was never a problem before, but its ridiculous to have different album artwork for an artist when you don't even have the album that the artwork it is showing. Apple, fix this...

OH MAN. This. I have the same gripe/problem.
I can only assume it is pulling the artwork from the iTunes database.
However, I have proper album art set for everything in my iTunes Library. What I don't want is some horrible software design decision ruining the experience of browsing & listening to my music.
Going to file this as a bug report. Not sure what on Earth the team was thinking with this "feature."
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There are several albums in my iTunes that have the artwork in iTunes, but the artwork doesn't show up on my new nano. I read on the apple website the following instructions on how to display album artwork, however when I get to STEP 2, the only option on the music tab for my iPod is "sync music". There is no "display album artwork on your iPod" checkbox. I have a 5th generation nano and there are some album artworks that DO show up on my nano...I just can't figure out how to get the rest of them...
For iTunes 7 or later
1. Select your iPod under the Devices section in the iTunes Source pane.
2. Select the Music tab of the iPod settings. The iPod settings are displayed to the right in the main iTunes window.
3. Select the "Display album artwork on your iPod" checkbox.
4. Click Apply to save the changes. The iPod begins to update as soon as Apply is clicked.

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for some reason, my video ipod won't display some of the album artwork from itunes. it shows the downloaded song artwork and some other songs, but not others (like when i import one of my CD's and the itunes library automatically finds the album artwork). they aren't in a weird format or anything. the album artwork shows up on the itunes library and even shows up on my nano, but no the video. anybody know why or know a way to fix it?
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How are you adding the artwork to the songs?
You should try adding the artwork to the songs in
iTunes first, not directly to the songs on the iPod
(through iTunes).
If you add artwork directly to the iPod, the artwork
is sometimes not displayed when playing songs.
See also: My artwork is missing.
i add the artwork in itunes--not my ipod (or itunes automatically adds artwork when i upload some cds), but when i manually add the song from itunes to my ipod, it either loses the artwork (doesn't show in ipod on itunes) or it keeps it (i can see the album artwork in itunes), but does not show up on my ipod when disconnected from itunes.
i read the article u posted and i can't delete every song i manually uploaded cuz they were all manually uploaded (i have ~600 songs on it so far). i don't chose automatic because as soon as i add the songs to my ipod, i delete them from my itunes library to save space on my computer.
sometimes the artwork shows up, sometimes it doesn't. i tried to find out why some do and some don't, but i don't see a pattern.

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I'm thinking of getting a new music player and I want to know if the newer IPOD's (nano, shuffle, etc.) are as crappy with regard to USB port recognition and syncing as the 2nd generation shuffle?

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