ITunes consistently fails to download album covers for soundtracks

Consistently. And always on soundtracks, whether they be new or old, TV or movie, etc. Sure, I can download the album cover and manually enter it, but that is time consuming. Anyone know of any special tricks to get iTunes to download these correctly?

Here's a link to a 3rd party app called Harmony
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/05/04/harmonydownloads_album_art_for_fullscreencoverflow-2.html
looks like it will do the job for you, it will even update the itunes artwork, not just download it.
Regards,
Peter.
PS:
this link is more direct:
http://www.thirteen23.com/experiences/desktop/harmony/
Message was edited by: Peter Miller

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