IPod touch - album artwork

I have an iPod touch (4th gen) and an iPhone 4. Both are running iOS 5.1. I recently added new songs (with album artwork) to both devices. The album artwork displays fine on my iPhone but not the iPod. I've tried closing the iPod app and then restarting the device (this usually works). However this did not solve the problem. This problem started happing after I updated the touch to 5.1. What can I do?

Yeah. I deleted the songs in question and resynced them. Sadly, it did not work. I also tried deleting the artwork in iTunes and redownloading the artwork directly from Apple. Then I resynced them... did not work. I also deleted the songs from iTunes and reimportanted them, resynced them... did not work.
My quest continues

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Hi all,
I recently changed a whole album's artwork to something different. I selected all the songs under Devices>ipod Touch>Music and did a multiple edit with the new artwork. After the sync, only certain ones changed. I then went into each individual playlist and changed them (using the multiple edit again). Still, only a few are changed. I've done multiple sync's to make sure it didn't stop in the middle of the sync as well. Any ideas?

Amazon is a good source of (good quality) album artwork. Songs though, well that's illegal, If you get my drift.. Hope you've got hard copies.
Regards,
Peter.
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Problems with iPod touch 5G - Artwork and TV shows don't show up

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When I change the Sort field to make my iPod sort albums chronologically instead of alphabetically, it will work until I've plugged my iPod into the computer a few times and then it will go back to sorting alphabetically (even though in the Get Info on iTunes it still says it's sorted by year).
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Try:
- 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 videos and resync
To delete all music go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage>Videos>Tap edit in upper right and then tap the minus sign by each video
- 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.

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Now that I installed the new iTunes software and connect my iPod Classic the album artwork display in the bottom left corner has disappeared! There are other new features on this new iTunes layout that annoy me!
Apple...please go back to your previous iTunes layout and get my album artwork back.
My iPod is fine, there is nothing wrong with my iPod, just iTunes and their ridiculous change! I uninstalled and re-installed iTunes to no avail.
And NO, I DO NOT use the apple iTunes store for anything, just use iTunes to connect to my iPod Classic, that's all, nothing further!
So don't go trying to sell me something on the iTunes store! NOT INTERESTED!
Why do you people tend to make things more difficult after I finally figured out your last iTunes layout?!
Simple guy non-computer geek here, just your average all-American Joe!
Can someone out there assist? Any way I can return to the previous version? This new version bites! Thanks much!

*Why is artwork not showing on my iPod when it's there in iTunes?*
iTunes will display a cover in many of it's views provided at least one track from the album has embedded artwork. The iPod appears to load only the artwork from track one to create the cover flow and album views which means that it can sometimes fail to display art for albums even when you can see the art in iTunes. Further, when tracks are played on the iPod, artwork is displayed if and only if it exists in the currently playing track, so track one may show art while track two does not.
*How to find tracks without artwork*
To find all the tracks without artwork so that you can update them you can try http://www.stum.de/itunes-find-tracks-without-artwork/ for Windows or http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=trackswithoutartwork for Macs. Use Google, Amazon, Discogs etc. to locate relevant images. Ideally these should be square, 320x320 pixels or above and borderless to give the best results in the various menus. If you have artwork for some tracks of an album, but not others, find the album in the main music folder, select a track with artwork, right-click (Option-Click for Macs) on the art & click copy, then select all the tracks of the album, use CTRL-I or Command-I to *Get Info* and then paste the image into the artwork box.
I say 320x320 because I believe (from using TouchCopy) that it's the size used in the iPod cache so if you're going to crop or resize you might as well work to that size. Otherwise 200x200 is probably good enough. iTunes store art seems to be generally 600x600.
*Rebuild artwork cache*
Sometimes the artwork cache becomes corrupt and fails to show correct artwork, even when this is properly set up in iTunes. To rebuild the artwork cache, connect your iPod to iTunes. Locate the iPod in the Sources pane on the left-hand side, then select the Music tab. Remove the tick from *Display album artwork on your iPod*, sync the iPod, reselect the option & sync again.
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Restoring is the function in iTunes that wipes a device, reloads the firmware and then lets you put back content. Yes, it deletes the media from the device but that should all be in your library, which in turn should be backed up. See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device and Backup your iTunes for Windows library with SyncToy if it isn't.
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I've got a 60GB iPod video and have never had a problem with it until recently which may or may not coincide with the upgrade to iTunes 7....
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Hi. I'm new to these Discussion forums and this is my first post so I don't have much experience on this site.
My problem is that when I play music on my iPod, the album artwork that is displayed by the song name, artist and album is different to the actual artwork. (for example, "If Everyone Cared" by Nickelback from the album "All The Right Reasons" is showing artwork of Gwen Stefani's Sweet Escape). At first I thought it was because I mixed it up on my computer but when I checked in iTunes the artwork was correct. I tried to update the ipod a couple of times and I also reset the ipod and it didn't fix the problem.
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Had the same problem this morning. Although, interestingly, if I hit the center button twice, it would produce an entirely new zoomed-in cover, unrelated to the incorrect thumbnail or the song.
If Khiz has the same problem I did, this method solves it just fine.
And I'm also curious if Khiz just uploaded a massive amount of music or made changes to a massive amount of files. Because just deleted everything I had in the comment field (since the skip while shuffle feature made it redundant), which resulted in close to my entire 4930-song library getting reuploaded.

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iTunes will display artwork for the album provided at least one track has artwork. When you're playing on iPod it appears to only look at track 1 for cover flow/album view purposes and will display embedded art, if it exists, for the currently playing track, otherwise it will display the blank cover.
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