ITunes 11 Manually Add Artwork?

So did Apple nix this feature because they want to punish me for ripping CDs versus buying it from their store? Is that it? It's the same reason I can't get a Blu-ray drive with a Mac (they want me to buy iTunes movies).
What's worse is I actually had the artwork in the previous version of iTunes and iTunes 11 axed it. Any fix for this?
Thanks

Right click on the album artwork you want to change. Select "Get Info". Drag the new artwork to the big white square called 'artwork' just like before. When you see the big green plus sign you drop the artwork in.
Thanks! I used the preview pane before, which is now gone, apparently, hence my question.
SO? I want to watch a Blu-ray movie, not a Apple Blu-ray movie. The software is called Blu-Ray player and it works fine, but if I had to do it all over again I'd just get a stand alone Blu-ray player. It takes up a lot more shelf space but it gives you more playing options. For the money though Blu-ray player works good eneough. Really sad that in this day and age Apple doesn't support Blu-ray more.
I have a Mac Pro and use Final Cut Pro X and I create Blu-ray discs to give to film festivals and friends who have Blu-ray players. You know, kind of like DVDs. So, it would be awesome if when I order a Mac I could get one with a Blu-ray drive and Quicktime would support BD like it supports DVD versus spending ~$40 on an app.
Thanks for helping me out with the artwork question.

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Please try the following methods to solve this issue:
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A clean boot helps to verify if any third party application services or startup item is causing this issue. For your information, please review this KB article to put the computer in clean boot:
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