ITunes isn't saving album artwork.

After adding some songs to the iTunes library the artwork is blank, and I've hit "get info" and "add album artwork" and it loads it just fine, but it goes away after I click "ok".

when importing album artwork, does anyone know if its possible to make it not embed the artwork in every file and instead act like the artwork downloaded from the iTunes store?
It is not possible.

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Why can't iTunes find all the album artwork?

Why can't iTunes find all the album artwork?

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ITunes 8: When downloading album artwork for making thumbnails, it quits?

I just installed iTunes 8, and I tried opening it. It then starts to download the album artwork thumbnails, then all of a sudden a message shows saying,
"iTunes has stopped working, Windows is trying to blablabla.."
Then it forces you to closes the program. I tried pressing cancel before the message pops-up, but when I try to scroll down, it forces me to quit. Any fixes?

If iTunes 8.0 is crashing or freezing while creating artwork thumbnails, you may have a file containing corrupt artwork in your library. The steps to identify that file are somewhat complex and will involve moving and deleting some files, so only attempt them if you are pretty comfortable with performing those tasks.
When you first open iTunes 8, iTunes scans through your album artwork to build a thumbnail cache. You can disable this scan by opening iTunes in Safe Mode.
To open iTunes in Safe Mode:
Mac: Hold down the Command and Option keys while opening iTunes
Windows: Hold down the Ctrl and Shift keys while opening iTunes
If you open iTunes in Safe Mode, iTunes will only cache artwork from the album covers that are visible in the iTunes window. So you can view your library in grid view, and scroll down one row at a time. You will see iTunes generating the thumbnails for each of your albums as you scroll down. This may allow you to see which album is being processed by iTunes when the application crashes or hangs. Once you have an idea which files are causing the issue, locate the folder containing the files themselves in Finder or Windows Explorer, create a zip archive of the album, and delete the files themselves:
To create a Zip archive of the album
Mac: Right-click the folder in Finder that contains the album tracks and choose Compress <folder name>
Windows: Right-click the folder in Windows Explorer that contains the album tracks and choose Send to Compressed Zipped folder
After you have created a zip archive backup of the affected files, and deleted the originals, open iTunes normally (not in safe mode). Scroll back down to where you were when the crash occurred. If you got the right files, iTunes should just skip over that album and keep rendering thumbnails without crashing or hanging. If iTunes hangs or crashes right after the album that you thought was causing the issue, it may have actually been that next album, so repeat the zip and delete steps until you have found the problematic album.
If you identify the album that contains the file that causes the problem, we would be interested in getting a copy of the files to try to analyze the issue further. Please email me <[email protected]> and I will tell you how to send in the affected files for analysis.

How do you get album artwork? I have like two thousand songs and about 95% don't have cover album artwork and when i try to get album artwork it says "Itunes can not find album artwork" "an unknown error occurred-609" what do i do?

How do you get album artwork? I have like two thousand songs and about 95% don't have cover album artwork and when i try to get album artwork it says "Itunes can not find album artwork" "an unknown error occurred-609" what do i do?

Perhaps try the "Error -609" section in the Specific Conditions and Alert Messages: (Mac OS X / Windows) section of the following document:
iTunes: Advanced iTunes Store troubleshooting

Itunes 7.1 deletes album artwork

I've upgraded to itunes 7.1 but it is having a problem keeping the album artwork saved. I've pasted artwork into itunes for all my albums and up until yesterday everything was fine, then I added another couple of albums and associated artwork but then found that artwork for a few other albums had been removed by itunes. I've tried to copy it all back into itunes but then other artwork disappeared. It's almost like ITunes wil not except any more artwork. All artwork is copied from google images. Has anybody had this problem?
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Yes, I have the exact same problem. I copy and paste album artwork from a website and a week later it's disappeared from itunes. I have over 17,000 songs and it's taken me an age to get the artwork in now only for it to disappear on me. Very frustrating. Hopefully someone reading this may be able to help.

Why does iTunes spend ages processing album artwork for no apparent reason?

I have a 65,000+ files on assorted drives. I tag in another ap, so I don't use iTunes to get artwork. However, everytime I add files to my playlist it insists on "processing album artwork" for every file, even if there isn't any, or if the files are being re-added after being moved to a different drive. What is iTunes up to, & is there any way of disabling it?
On a related note, it would be really useful if iTunes could be set to search certain folders for altered, moved or deleted files & update the library automatically. Any chance this could be introduced in a future version?

No, it isn't! Maybe I should check it, then restart iTunes, uncheck it again & restart iTunes again. Might be worth a try.

ITunes can't get album artwork for songs iTunes has in the store... how do i fix this?

i have a bunch of songs that either have the wrong album artwork or none at all. the weirdest thing is that some of the albums are SOLD on iTunes. in fact, if i highlight one of my songs in iTunes, Ping sees it and shows me the correct cover art. BUT when i click "get album artwork", it tells me it cannot find the artwork. i've tried matching the text (song title, album title, artist, genre) exactly as it is in iTunes, but that doesn't help. it is doing this for about 60 of my albums and i don't know how to fix it. how can i get it to find the artwork?
also... when iTunes finds the WRONG artwork, how can i direct it to the correct one?

Albums, artists and complications must match precisely for iTunes to get a hit. If you have a compilation, chances are you have a 'various artists' for an album artists ... there is a bit of a science to it. I've managed to get most of my 'picky ones' to match. But I have some that just won't - for whatever reason.

ITunes does not show album artwork for FLAC files

I add FLAC music files to iTunes via Fluke which works perfectly.
Then I add the album artworks to the albums as usual (select all songs/right click/get info/info/then drag and drop a previously downloaded .jpg file). The artwork is visible in the Artwork column, in the Cover Flow but not in the right click/get info/info/artwork.
Which would not be a problem itself, but I use a Logitech Squeezebox Duet and on the controller there is no artwork for albums with FLAC files.
It is only with FLACs, MP3s work fine.
Any idea, what is it all about?
Thanks!

I knew that.
That was really my question how to solve it if there is a workaround.

Getting iTunes Setup Asssistant "Download Album Artwork" Message On Startup

I have upgraded to version 7. Now everytime I start iTunes I get a 'iTunes Setup Assistant' box pop-up talking about downloading album artwork. I then have to click cancel or OK before iTunes loads. This is very, very irritating. How do I stop this???

I think that the iTunes database in your Windows user profile might be corrupted. I managed to solve the problem by creating a new database and reimporting my songs into the library. The album art downloaded automatically after that.
1) Check the Automatically download missing album artwork is selected on the General tab in iTunes preferences
2) Close iTunes
3) Rename the iTunes folder (usually found in +My Music+)
4) Reopen iTunes (this creates a new iTunes folder in +My Music+)
5) Copy and paste the contents of your music folders (+iTunes Music+ folder) into the newly created +iTunes Music+ folder
6) Reopen iTunes and select File > Add Folder to Library > Browse to your iTunes folder in +My Music+ > OK
Your music will then be imported into the new iTunes database and the album art should be downloaded automatically.

Vista Problem - iTunes 7.02 Scrambles Album Artwork

5G iPod Video and Windows Vista...
All seemed OK until I started watching for the album artwork on my iPod. It appears that iTunes has decided to rearrange the artwork for the music. All is still well on my PC - but for now I'll have to put up with strange combinations of art & music.
Just wondering ... is Apple time different than PC time? Their estimate of "the next few weeks" has been posted for - well, the past few weeks. I wonder if they're getting any closer?
Best of luck,
iDave
Dual Core PC Other OS Windows Vista

Yes, I have the exact same problem. I copy and paste album artwork from a website and a week later it's disappeared from itunes. I have over 17,000 songs and it's taken me an age to get the artwork in now only for it to disappear on me. Very frustrating. Hopefully someone reading this may be able to help.

Since updating to latest version of iTunes Ive lost all Album Artwork.

Hello,since recruiting the latest itunes I have lost all Album Artwork.
Tried signing out/in
Deauthorising device.
My next step is uninstalling.
All my Music is in itunes match.
Any help greatly recieved.

agree. itune failed to recognize chinese character so i rip my cd using windows media. tried adding folders to itunes but they put all the songs under the category ünknown album..

Films - Movies not Working or corrupted in iTunes after changing the album artwork

After trying to change the album artwork for some movies I own, I realized that such movie unplayable after such change and I cannot even revert what I have done. More, it seems like if you press on the "get info" section of the movie, you will notice that the artwork tab is gone and therefore, it’s like the movie is corrupted after changing the artwork. Any ideas? Has anyone encountered this before?

Just checked and I have the updated itunes 8.0.1 with the poster frame problem.
I finally found a fix for the movie album artwork problem.
After realizing several movies had the same poster frame as one of the movies. I deleted the movie with the common poster frame which had been copied to other movies. The other poster frames changed on the other movies because they no longer had a reference to the file from which the poster frame was copied. So I copied the deleted movie back into itunes and then got to thinking that perhaps there is something else in common with the movies which displayed the same poster frame. I found that I had set the album field to the same title. So I changed the album field file by file, to something else. Then I set the poster frame after playing a few seconds of the video at a point where I wanted the frame set to the current frame. I got a film icon on the movie icon for a few seconds while it changed it. Sometimes I had to repeat selecting the different poster frames for each movie because it didn't take the first time... the second time I selected a different poster frame it was then set to the first poster frame that I selected. So now the movies which all had the same album "Aviation" now are all changed to "Flight Training" Of course, now the poster frames for those movies are all the same poster frame but at least they are correct for the type of movie.
So if the album name is set to the same thing on several different movies they will all have the same poster frame.

Itunes 10.4.1 album artwork issues.

When I click get info and paste in album artwork from cds that I have imported, it shows up in the box, but when I click OK nothing happens! Help me fix this!
This always happens with all my cds, when I get info in the library it doesn't work, but when I get info from my ipad the 'artwork' box is greyed out!!

The 10.5 series of updates has ganked artwork for me as well. In fact, on a few occasions attempts to add artwork have resulted in the corruption of the music track itself. I dragged/dropped artwork, artwork box on interface turned black and track was destroyed even though it still appeared to be there (i.e. not a "dead" track). Clicking on it would result in a short static blip and then it would go to the next track and do the same on down the line to each track I'd attempted to add art to.
Also, iTunes now randomly decides when, and when not to show artwork that is visible when you check Get Info > Artwork. Sometimes you see it in the interface, sometimes you don't. Finally, the excellent "embed artwork" script described above no longer works - returns a "parameter error."
Situation is the same on both my (brand new) iMac and my MBP which have totally separate/different libraries, so it's gotta be the updates. Hopefully they'll catch up with it. If anybody has any info on what else might be happening here (i.e. do scripts become outdated?) I'd love to hear your thoughts.

ITunes 12 syncing incorrect album artwork

When syncing music from iTunes 12 to my iPhone 5s, several songs have incorrect album artwork. I have attempted completely deleting all music from my phone and reinstalling this content, however; this error is still occurring. The correct album artwork is appearing in iTunes.

In certain cases where the same album title is used for more than one album or sort values are used to try to group different things together I have seen the artwork index on an iPod classic get out of sync so that say the 20th album shows the artwork from the 19th and the 50th from the 48th etc. Can't say I've noticed it on an iOS device, but this type of issue is fixed by populating tags consistently as described in Grouping tracks into albums.
Assuming everything is otherwise correct in iTunes this method will normally sort things out.
Backup device.
Restore as new device.
Restore backup made earlier.
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ITunes won't sync album artwork on iPhone 4s, Software 6.1.3

So I bought a new laptop and wanted to sync my music but it told me that I had to delete it in order to be used with a new computer. I did so because I have it backed up. Now when I try to drag music into it, it syncs but no matter what I do the album artwork doesn't show up in my iPhone but I have it my library. Its starting to really frustrate me. I tried copying and pasting the artwork when my iPhone is connected but it still doesn't work. Can anyone help me?

I want to second this problem. The only difference is that I'm on an iPhone 5. I can delete most songs by swiping my finger across them and hitting the delete button, but every once in a while a song can't be swiped... nothing happens. I have tried looking for something in common with the songs, but have not come up with anything.

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