ITunes deletes artwork

When I play an album from iTunes on my computer, some times, but not always, iTunes dletes the artwork and won't let me add it back. I then need to dlete that album and reload it into iTunes along with the artwork which is either downloaded or added manually. Why does iTunes do this?

all albums were loaded from CDs into iTunes on my PC, not downloaded from internet; then I either asked iTunes to find the artwork for that album, or if iTunes told me the artwork was not available, I scanned the cover as a jpeg, and copied and pasted into iTunes after clicking on "get info". If I again scan the artwork as a jpeg and try to paste it as before, it won't appear. Both artwork & music have synced to my iPod in the past. Now I don't want to sync again for fear that the artwork will disappear from my iPod. The disappearing art doesn't happen with all the albums and I have always loaded all CDs the same way. Help!

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With the new iTunes having been installed a night or two ago, I cannot seem to easily manage the album artwork of my songs anymore.
When I hit "Get Info" and go to the "Artwork" tab, the only way to add art is by clicking "Add Artwork" and manually searching for it in my drives. I no longer can simply copy and paste. I also cannot even do anything with the currently existing artwork; right clicking it does literally nothing. Highlighting and hitting "delete" on the keyboard also does nothing. So, granted these new extremely limited options (again, I can literally only "Add Artwork"), how does one go about deleting already-existing artwork?
In most cases, adding artwork did seem to automatically delete any previously existing one, which is exactly what I needed. But for a couple of cases, adding artwork only added the image to the "Art Gallery" instead of actually overlapping the old art, and there is zero option to delete either of the two similar images. Any insight?

The iTunes 12 Get Info dialog lacks right-click context menus but accepts most standard keyboard shortcuts and drag & drop actions.
Delete Artwork
On the artwork tab of Get Into, tap the image in question, use Backspace or Ctrl+X. Delete doesn't work.
Or, tap the image at the top left of Get Info, this time use Backspace or Delete, it is Ctrl+X that doesn't work.
Add Artwork
Select artwork, press Ctrl+C to copy, tap the center of the Artwork tab, press Ctrl+V to paste.
Or, select artwork, press Ctrl+C to copy, tap the small image area at the top left, press Ctrl+V to paste.
Or, you can drag & drop to, or sometimes from, the same locations.
You can also copy artwork from the Get Info dialog to Windows Explorer with the keyboard shortcuts.
If the source image is on a web page right-click and use Copy Image rather than copy.
If you have multiple images embedded drag the one you want to be the primary artwork to the leftmost position.
The top left image box can be used to add or delete art from multiple tracks. In either case all existing art is removed/replaced.
Old Style Get Info Dialog
Select some items, right-click, hold down shift, then click Get Info from the context menu. (Use alt/option on a Mac)
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Hi.Have organized all my songs in itunes ,deleted unwanted songs and anupdated the album artwork but it has not changed them in my itunes media folder location in the C drive.How do i change this and back them up now i have everything the way i want it ?

Hi
-I have organized all my songs in iTunes ,deleted unwanted songs and updated the album artwork but it has not changed them in my iTunes media folder location in my C Drive.
How do I update it there so it is the same as my iTunes now so i can back it all up?
Thankyou.

I solved my problem. Here's how:
1. Right click iTunes and click properties from the "Windows 8 Desktop" (or if you want to call it the 7 desktop thats fine too)
2. Select the compatibility tab.
3. Set compatibility mode to Windows 7 and click apply.
4. Open iTunes, sign into iTunes store, Turn on iTunes Match, Add your computer.
5. Close Program
6. Restart Computer

Deleting Artwork in Itunes

For some reason several (Many) of my albums have picked up the same album art from a completely different album - the wrong one and I can not delete that artwork to search for the correct art. When I go into "Get Info" no artwork appears. How in the world do I get rid of the ghost artwork?

The iTunes 12 Get Info dialog lacks right-click context menus (at least for now) but it still accepts most standard keyboard shortcuts and drag & drop actions.
Delete Artwork
On the artwork tab of Get Into, tap the image in question, use Backspace or Ctrl+X. Delete doesn't work.
Or, tap the image at the top left of Get Info, this time use Backspace or Delete, it is Ctrl+X that doesn't work.
Add Artwork
Select artwork, press Ctrl+C to copy, tap the center of the Artwork tab, press Ctrl+V to paste.
Or, select artwork, press Ctrl+C to copy, tap the small image area at the top left, press Ctrl+V to paste.
Or, you can drag & drop to, or sometimes from, the same locations.
You can also copy artwork from the Get Info dialog to Windows Explorer with the keyboard shortcuts.
If the source image is on a web page right-click and use Copy Image rather than copy. (With Chrome I get a one pixel wraparound so tend to go for a temporary local copy anyway - not sure whose bug this is, but it isn't new.)
If you have multiple images embedded drag the one you want to be the primary artwork to the leftmost position.
Replace/Remove All Artwork
The top left image box can be used to add or delete art from multiple tracks. In either case all existing artwork in all tracks is replaced/removed.
Old Style Get Info Dialog
Select some items, right-click, hold down shift, then click Get Info from the context menu. (Use alt/option on a Mac)
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ITunes is deleting artwork

I recently built a new PC and merged my library from my old computer to my new one via Backup DVD's, but now iTunes is DELETING THE ARTWORK of the songs, and it seems each time i re-add missing artwork to a group of songs it deletes 50 artworks from other albums, please help, i don't want to add artwork to over 5500 songs

iTunes shouldn't delete artwork from existing albums when you add new art, however if your artwork is predominantly of the store-downloaded variety rather than embedded in the tracks then this might happen if the artwork database becomes corrupt. The simple fix for this is to remove the entire Album Artwork folder and let iTunes rebuild it from scratch. If the bulk of your art is not embedded however this will mean having to fetch the art again. Perhaps the following will help you with organising the task should it come to it...
*How to find tracks without artwork*
To find all the tracks without artwork so that you can update them you can try http://www.stum.de/itunes-find-tracks-without-artwork/ for Windows or http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=trackswithoutartwork for Macs. Use Google, Amazon, Discogs etc. to locate relevant images. Ideally these should be square, 320x320 pixels or above and borderless to give the best results in the various menus.
I say 320x320 because I believe (from using TouchCopy) that it's the size used in the iPod cache so if you're going to crop or resize a smallish image you might as well work to that size. Otherwise 200x200 is probably a good minimum size. iTunes store art seems to be generally 600x600 which is probably a good maximum.
I've not, so far, been able to locate a script to automate the process of replicating art from a track that has it to other tracks of the same album without art (or work out how to write one) however if you have artwork for some tracks of an album, but not others, find the album in the main music folder, select a track with artwork, right-click (Control-Click for Macs) on the art & click copy, then select all the tracks of the album, use CTRL-I or Command-I to *Get Info* and then paste the image into the artwork box.
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ITunes Duplicate Artwork

I'm running 10.7.1 and iTunes 10.4 (64-bit). When adding artwork to selected items within iTunes via the get info window, the artwork is added TWICE for each item when double-clicking on the artwork box and navigating to the art. However, when selecting multiple items in the main window and dragging the artwork to the artwork window in the lower left, the artwork is added correctly. This has been happening since 7-19-2011. There have been no occurrences prior to then, but it has occurred in every instance where I added the artwork via the get info window. I just had to delete are re-add artwork for over 350 songs. Not fun Apple.

I too have experienced this issue shortly after the (second) most recent update. I reported it to Apple, but never heard anything. I can only hope they resolve the issue in an upcoming update.
This is the second annoying issue I've encountered recently with iTunes album artwork. Last time, I had artwork displayed in my iTunes library, but missing from my iPod. This continues to be an issue and the only way I know to correct it is by removing the original artwork in iTunes, then re-adding it and synching back to the iPod - what a pain!

Itunes deleted album art from all tracks except the first from each album.

I spent so many hours adding the album art to every track of the 1100 albums on my ipod. And recently after connecting my ipod to itunes the artwork has been deleted from every track except the first of each album.
So i can still see all the albums in coverflow but when listening to individual tracks past track one the art disappears. Is there any way that i can get the art back on all my tracks without spending 100 hours on amazon?

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How can I delete artwork?

I would like to find a way to delete album artwork from a file. I've converted many of my CDs into iTunes and have attached artwork that I've located on the web. Sometimes the artwork I initially selected wasn't the same as my actual CD covers but I added what I could find. When I later find the correct artwork for a CD and add it to iTunes, both copies of the artwork are stored. I'd like to delete the former version and retain only the correct version. It appears there is no mechanism to delete artwork once it's loaded into iTunes unless you delete the entire file, re-import it into iTunes and then add the correct artwork. That's quite time consuming and there should be a more straight forward means.

If you just drop art onto the panel beneath the playlists, any images you drop get added to the existing artwork in the selected files. If, however, you use the "Get Info" dialog on a group of files then the art you paste in replaces any & all existing artwork. If you simply need to remove all art from a group of tracks, select them, "Get Info", then on the Options tab place a tick against the artwork box and click OK.
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On the same note: can I have iTunes create these files on the external server/Hard drive also so that either computer can use them at the same time?
(like I have my library- can the other files be saved remotely)
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A update to iTunes deleted all my playlists. How do i get them back? I have a windows 7 operating system.

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Since ios6, itunes deleted all my songs on my ipod and on my computer!

I have itunes set to organize my library for me. I found that for some reason after ios6 update, when I synced my ipod, all of the music got removed from it. However, at the time, I could still play it on the computer.
When I looked into the itunes folder, I found that when I played a song on my computer, itunes would copy that song from its original location in the itunes>music> (artist name) folder to another folder it created in itunes>(artist name). In other words, it was moving everything out of the music subfolder into the general itunes folder. Everything that it moved would subsequently sync fine to the ipod.
So, thinking I had the solution, I told itunes to consolidate my files in my library. Apprently bad idea. It did copy all of the files from within the music folder out into the general itunes folder, but somewhere in the copy, it must have lost the files, because now most of them are no longer on the computer either. When I go to play them in itunes now, there is an exclamation point. Itunes deleted my music and instead, I have folders with artists name, and a placeholder of sorts where the file is supposed to be with a little x over it (Ihave windows 7, btw). Nor are the files in their original folders in the music subfolder. I never touched any of this music manually. I was trusting itunes to do its thing with keeping my library organized and all.
It did manage to copy about 1000 of them just fine, but all the rest of my music is gone from my computer! I did also restore the ipod, which seemed to sync fine after the restore, but again, because of the now missing music on my computer, obviously those files did not sync. Help. What happenned????

Reset didn't work at first until I unchecked the 'sych only checked songs and videos' in iTunes, clicked apply and then rechecked it and clicked sync and it worked.
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I got my computer reset and my iTunes deleted. I still have everything on my iPod Touch but when I downloaded a new iTunes on my computer everything was deleted. How do I get everything in my iPod back to my iTunes and into my computer?

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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
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ITunes deleted my songs from my HARD DRIVE!

iTunes not only has deleted a few files from my library, but it ALSO deleted songs off my hard drive!
I thought, "Well, maybe they just got moved around somehow." But, I thought about how much I go into my iTunes folder and then it dawned on me that I hadn't done that in about a month or so. The deleting thing started happening about a week ago. It's a few songs a day. Seriously. *?
I feel like if I'm spending several thousand dollars on Apple's products (computers, accessories, and music), Apple needs to be a little more appreciative.
If it's a bug in the new iTunes, then Apple needs to be sensitive to the fact that music is LOST permanently! It's frustrating to think about all the music that I've lost and PAID for. If I'm using the iTunes store and iTunes to buy/play music, then Apple needs to come out and apologize and reimburse for what was lost.
I can understand why some of you are frustrated that iTunes is deleting songs from your library, but is there anyone else who is having music deleted from their hard drive?
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I'm a bit upset, too. It's only deleted one song, but why did that random song go, and when will it happen to 100s of them?
I have the song on CD and can re-rip it, but that's not the point - it shouldn't go missing from the hard drive.
I've aleady resigned myself to backing up the ITL library file on a regular basis in case it gets mysteriously corrupted.
I'm not sure iTunes deleted this song, but it sure is suspicious.

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