Itunes 10.3.1: Custom Album Artwork does'nt work.

I have upgradedl to iTunes 10.3.1 and then I no longer can make custom Album Artwork.
My Musicfiles is WAV 44.100 khz and i use a PC with Windows 7.

I don't understand how the file type affects the album artwork.
I have plenty of .WAV files with album artwork. It appears to be a bug in the latest update to 10.3 or am I missing something?

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Yes, iTunes 7 on WinXP.
I have recently answered my own question as follows:
The dialog box in question includes OK and CANCEL buttons. Unfortunately, it contains no indication of what these buttons do. Now, as a matter of principle, I do not click an OK button unless I think I know what it'l do. So, on this dialog box I always clicked CANCEL.
Well, one day I accidentally clicked OK. Viola! The dialog box went away and never came back!
Now, if you already have an iTunes U account and/or have "automatically download missing album artwork" checked in Edit / Preferences / General, this dialog box apparently won't appear anyway. Only luddites like me (who refuse to give Apple my credit card number until I find something I want to buy) who have a problem.
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Can I force iTunes not to embed custom album art, but store it separately?

(I only use iTunes to manage my 16GB iPod nano 5th gen and update my mother's iPad.)
Now as far as I am aware, when iTunes downloads album art, it stores it separately from the audio files, and thus several tracks share the same image file for their artwork. This seems economical to me, considering the space limitations that most Apple devices have.
But if you set your custom album art, iTunes embeds it into the audio files themselves, so each has a copy of the artwork, and thus the total size of artwork increases about tenfold. Now this is okay when storing the audio files on personal computers, but is quite stupid for devices with limited storage capacities. It really depends on the size of the artwork and the bitrate your audio is encoded to, but I calculated I could put an extra 300MB of music onto my iPod if I could just somehow force iTunes to store my custom album art separately, not embed it into the audio files by default.
Does anybody have an answer/solution to this problem, or do I have to look beyond iTunes to do this?
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It's possible your album artwork isn't there and cannot be obtained as this album no longer appears to be offered for purchase by itunes. Unless I'm overlooking it, when I go to the itunes store and enter "Santana", "Carlos Santana", or "Food For Thought", nothing comes up. I'm thinking if this is an album no longer for sale through itunes, then you won't be able to get that album artwork the way previously have. Unfortunately, I'm not saavy enough to know if it's possible to get the album artwork via another means. But maybe someone else reading this post is.

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I am hoping somebody has encountered the same and has a solution to the following issue:
I successfully had iTunes 7 automatically download the album artwork for most of the titles in my collection (i.e. those that appear in the iTunes music store). These were all ripped CDs, not purchased songs. I can see the album artwork in iTunes just fine.
However, when I sync my iPod, none of the art is transferred to my device. The only workaround seems to be making a change to the tags - forcing iTunes to recognize the files have changed. However in doing this, it seems my iPod is getting bloated by 1-2MB of artwork files per album. That seems like a lot. Furthermore, re-syncing all 40GB of music with tag changes will take a long time.
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I'm having the same problem, and the suggestions here didn't work (other posters have made similar suggestions). Not sure if it's relevant, but all my iPod artwork is manually entered via the "Get Info" function. I didn't have this problem before iTunes 7.
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Deleting and re-adding the file back into iTunes doesn't help.
The Comments info box for the problem files also now includes a weird string of code that wasn't there before.
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Windows Media Player/Windows Explorer may be less fussy on embedded artwork formats than iTunes or the media file might actually be missing the art but the Windows Explorer cache (Thumbs.db) still shows it. You say removing-reimporting doesn't help but I assume you can still paste new artwork in and have it remembered. If so you might want to use the following tool to at least take some of the effort out of searching out which tracks you need to repair.
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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.
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