ITunes Album Artwork Screensaver Only Showing 3 Album Covers

I'm trying to use the album artwork screensaver but when it comes on it only shows three repeating album covers, all of which from CDs I downloaded myself and not from the iTunes store. How do I get all my album artwork to show?
I tried FILE > LIBRARY > GET ALBUM ARTWORK and holding down option while clicking the itunes icon and selecting my iTunes library.
13.3 in Mac Book Pro, 2013
Mac OS X Mountain Lion

Hi,
so this work's for me. Just recreate all the iTunes stuff. I did it like this:
- Go to - Music / iTunes / iTunes Media and backup the Music and Mobile App folders
- Delete everyting in the folder iTunes
Then just open the iTunes and add all the music from the Music folder to the library back again. This will recreate all the library files and folders in the iTunes folder.
Then try the screen saver.
Hope it helps.

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