ITunes album artwork still ain't working

I still haven't found anyone with a solution
After I import an album, I right click on the album for GET INFO and then assign cover art:
But iTunes is not accepting my selection. Sometimes it works - sometimes it doesn't. See the screenshot below, sometimes iTunes accepts my artwork selection, and sometimes it doesn't
What is going here?
EDIT: The artwork is all of my own creation in Photoshop, not images downloaded from the Internet
EDIT: I am often using the same file for multiple album covers. As you can see above, iTunes has accepted one JPEG a couple of times, but I can't get add cover art to any other albums, nor can I get different JPEGS added as cover art.

Well I found the answer elsewhere outside of this Apple forum.
You cannot add cover art unless all of the files in the album are MP3.
This brings up another problem because my iTunes preferences are set up such that the MP3 encoder converts music files to MP3.
However, apparently this function is not working consistently, and sometimes it converts WAV to MP3 and sometimes it doesn't.

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