Itunes artwork gone missing!

I have recently not had access to the internet and although my whole library of over 200000 songs had album art it now seems to have disappeared, most album art embedded in the Mp3 file. Can anyone help as to why this may be?

I'm not sure Apple will let you have artwork just because you do not have it and they do. I have tried this numerous times for CDs I import myself. I think you have to purchase from their store.
If I'm wrong, please let me know that you were once able to do this.

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I appologize that this has been asked before but I am so confused as to why there don't seem to be any answers on here that reliably solve the problem. Is iphone technology really that complicated and mysterious? I feel like it's about to become self aware or something.
Anyway, my album art on my iphone 4s seems to have suddenly gone missing. But not in a predictable way. It seemed like it started when I had to unplug my phone during a recent sync. I have been reimporting my albums and I was syncing the latest batch to the phone and underestimated how much time it would take. Or possibly it was hung up on one of the steps. Honestly I'm not totally sure. But I noticed the albums I had just recently modified still had art but a lot of the rest was gone. To clarify, however, at that time some of the album art was totally missing and some was only missing in the album view. When I clicked on the albums or played them the art would be there.
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