ITunes Missing Album Artwork Problem

For all the albums that dont have album artwork, the artwork display is messed up, its blue-ish and has distorted parts of other albums in my library, instead of the normal gray, is there any way to fix this?

I have this same problem. I think it is a rendering issue because the problem disappears when I open fullscreen view for album artwork or use the visualizer.

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    How do I fill in missing album artwork for my music library?

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  • ITunes 11 (11.1.4) Update Missing Album Artwork

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  • ITunes 8: still the same album artwork problem

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    Okay, I think I've figured a way around this. At least it works for me. It's a bit convoluted, but it works and it's fairly simple. Here goes...
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  • Album Artwork problems on iTunes

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  • Missing album artwork / iTunes 12 not correctly synced to iPhone

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  • ITunes Album Artwork Problem. Help?

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