ITunes not finding album artwork

I'm getting a bit sick of this - why does iTunes not find any album artwork any more, yet it recognises the album & finds all the tracks? This seems to be a constant problem on this forum - anyone have any ideas...? I have iTunes 11 & a desktop intel Mac, OS X 10.7.

I wouldn't be in a hurry to upgrade to 8.2.
Make sure that the *Album Artist* and Artist of your album matches up with what's in the iTunes Store EXCEPT if the artist has an ampersand (&) in it. Then put in everything up until the space before the ampersand. (You're free to edit the info after you've gotten the correctly downloaded artwork.) In some cases you may not get the correct artwork no matter how you match the data.

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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 cannot find album artworks

Hello, I imported some purchased Cd's I have at home to iTunes and the album artwork does not appear. I tried all the ways to make iTunes get the artwork as the iTunes help says and still, "artwork could not be found". Is there a way I can make iTunes to automatically download the album artwork??
thank you

Do you know I have the same problem.
I go to HMV with my daughter and spend time browsing music together. We come home and inport our music. It always finds the track and album names but cannot find the Artwork. This does not seem to apply to odd or old stuff, even chart CDs.
To add insult to injury if you type the album name into Itunes it is there, with the artwork.
Another reason why I HATE Itunes......

Not finding album artwork....?

Anyone else seeing this?? Just imported death magnetic from the CD and itunes isn't finding the cover art...

I have tons of CDs that with WMP it has the artwork and when I load up itunes, nothing. go figure ... Im trying to find a way to make wmp and itunes place nice with the auto updating of the song info but between the two they love to fight and screw things up
*NOTE: You must convert WAV files to another format before you can add artwork.*
*From iTunes Help ...*
Music and video you buy from the iTunes Store comes with its own artwork. You can add your own artwork to songs and other items in your library. You can add many popular types of still-image files, including JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and Photoshop.
In list view (the leftmost View button), to display artwork for the currently selected item, choose View > Show Artwork or click this button (in the bottom left of the iTunes window):
Here are ways to add artwork to music and video:
◼ To add artwork to one item, select an item in your iTunes library and drag the art file file to the artwork viewer.
◼ To add artwork to multiple items, select an item, choose File > Get Info, and click Artwork. To add art to the selected item, click Add (or drag the art file from your desktop to the artwork box). Click Next to add artwork to the next item.
◼ To add the same artwork to multiple items, hold down the Command key as you click each item, choose File > Get Info, click Artwork, and drag the art file to the artwork box.
◼ To add more than one piece of art to a song, drag more than one image to the same artwork box.
◼ To retrieve album artwork for songs in your library, select the songs and choose Advanced > Get Album Artwork.
◼ To have iTunes automatically download album artwork when you import a CD or add songs with missing artwork, choose iTunes > Preferences, click Store, and select “Automatically download missing album artwork.”
Later ...
Buzz

ITunes not Finding Album Art (Which Does Exist)

For reasons that I have been unable to ascertain, iTunes cannot find album art for some albums that I have ripped. The art does exist on iTunes--I've done a search and checked. The song text matches; the album title appears to match; but iTunes politely informs me "Artwork could not be found."
This is not due to the fact that these are songs I have ripped myself; iTunes has found plenty of other album art for tunes I've ripped myself. Something else is going on. A couple of examples for folks to chew on:
Godzilla - Blue Öyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper: The Best Of Blue Öyster Cult
Mirror In The Bathroom - The English Beat - Beat This! The Best of the English Beat
Freeze-Frame - J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame
The Healer - John Lee Hooker - The Healer
There are plenty of others; that's just a sample. Any advice would be appreciated.
Doug
iPhone

Hello,
so there's no way of adding new covers to iTunes by drag and drop to the left bottom box??? I have to add the cover with +I only?
I've tried yesterday to add the covers with a simlpe drag and drop into the useful bottom-left box.... It didn't work... C'mon Apple!
It kinda *****...
PS: Adding covers via the new "import cover from apple store" fonction doesn't work as well. Youth bugs I presume
Macmini , ibook 12 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

ITunes not downloading album artwork

I recently bought 3 cd's and imported them into iTunes. Whenever I try to right click on the album and get it's artwork it does nothing. The albums are "Way to Normal" by Ben Folds, "Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart" by Rachael Yamagata and "The Glass Passenger" by Jack's Mannequin. All three albums are in the US iTunes store so that shouldn't be the problem. Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? And yes, I know I can drag the picture in from somewhere else but I don't like that it takes up space on my harddrive. Anyone have any suggestions?

There certainly are mysteries involved in iTunes looking up artwork on the Store.
Is it possible that iTunes can't find the artwork, but you've turned off that warning message? If so, you can turn it back on (and all the other ones, unfortunately).
iTunes Preferences, Advanced panel, Reset all dialog warnings.
Then at least you might get something more illuminating than stony silence
Good luck!
BTW -- artwork takes up hard disk space whether it's downloaded by iTunes or pasted in from somewhere else. Pasting from somewhere else takes a bit more space, since the artwork is copied into every song file rather than just kept once in the Library file. Even so, it's a fraction of 1% of the total space.

ITunes not copying Album Artwork to iPod

I have iTunes set up so that it automatically downloads missing album artwork, and it does download, but when sync the iPod, the album artwork is not synced—I have to copy and paste it.
Is this a bug?
Thanks.

Hard to say. Which of the dozen or so different iPods do you have?
When you select the Music tab for your iPod in iTunes, did you check this box at the bottom of the window?

ITunes not finding album covers

Hello, I've decided to upload my albums to iTunes. But I'm becoming more and more furstrated as iTunes can't seem to find a lot of the album covers.
I've tried Tune-up but I've used up all the free album covers they give you. Is there any other 'Simple to use' apps/programms that can help me with this problem?
Many thanks,
Moodyblues1977

I wouldn't be in a hurry to upgrade to 8.2.
Make sure that the *Album Artist* and Artist of your album matches up with what's in the iTunes Store EXCEPT if the artist has an ampersand (&) in it. Then put in everything up until the space before the ampersand. (You're free to edit the info after you've gotten the correctly downloaded artwork.) In some cases you may not get the correct artwork no matter how you match the data.

Itunes cant find album artwork

I have some random albums on my itunes (updated today) that dont have artwork, and if I search the same album on itunes store it has the artwork. Albums like city and colour, the frey etc big name bands.

It could be that there are some diffrences anyway.
But you can do a Google image search to find the album cover.
When you find it, right-click on the image and chose 'Copy'.
In iTunes: Select all songs of the album > right-click > get info > right-click inside the Artwork field > Paste > OK
Explainable image: http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/6333/pastealbumartworkhu3.jpg

The Control A key is not working. I cannot multi-select my songs. I'm not sure if it is the problem with iTunes 10.6.1.7 or my PC settings encounter issues. Also, i cannot find Album Artwork online using iTunes and i cannot select any view form but List.

The Control A key is not working. I cannot multi-select my songs. I'm not sure if it is the problem with iTunes 10.6.1.7 or my PC settings encounter issues. Also, i cannot find Album Artwork online using iTunes and i cannot select any view form but List.

The Control A key is not working. I cannot multi-select my songs. I'm not sure if it is the problem with iTunes 10.6.1.7 or my PC settings encounter issues. Also, i cannot find Album Artwork online using iTunes and i cannot select any view form but List.

Itunes 10.6.3 - Just update to the new Itunes and the album artwork is not sticking anymore... I upload the artwork and when I change songs and go back the art is gone. Anyone with similar issue ?

Itunes 10.6.3 - Just update to the new Itunes and the album artwork is not sticking anymore... I upload the artwork and when I change songs and go back the art is gone. Anyone with similar issue ?

I have this issue. Album artwork was totally fine before. After this update, it is all messed up and even got messed up when transferred to my iphone.
iTunes doesn't have the artwork anymore, but then iPhone has it but shows wrong artwork with wrong albums.
Please fix!

HT1473 I am having to recreate my itunes library and do not understand why prior album artwork appeared in my older library but not the new library? Is there some way to scan itunes for missing album artwork?

I am having to recreate my itunes library and do not understand why prior album artwork appeared in my older library but not the new library? Is there some way to scan itunes for missing album artwork?

do you have a strongly recommended default "managed" library (the iPhoto preference to "copy imported items to the iPhoto library is in its checked state) or a referenced library - you have unchecked that option?
It sounds like you have a referenced library and are now experiancing one of the very siginificant drawbacks of a referenced library and one of the many reasons they are strongly not recommended
Also note that iPhoto '11 may use alises in the originals folder as part of the upgrade
It is important that we understand exactly what you have and what is not sorking - what error messages you are getting
You must NEVER make any changes of any sort to the structure of content of the iPhoto library - there are no user servicable parts in it -- and you can not rebuild yoru librtary - only iPhoto ir iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - can rebuild a library unless you are a SQL programmer and understand the structure that iPhoto uses
LN

I have synced my iPhone 5s via iTunes however, my album artwork is not appearing on my phone. Please help

I have synced my iPhone 5s via iTunes however, my album artwork is not appearing on my phone. Please help

Hi
Typically these are added toy our iPhone by synching with iTunes and that is the only way to "unsych" them.
In your Itunes tab for photos you can uncheck the albums you do not wanted synced to your iPhone. Then resynch your computer and your iPhone and they will not be added to your iPhone.
Cheers

ITunes Match not matching the songs, not uploading album artwork

In the past few months I started having problems with the ITM. Whenever I add a new song to iTunes and subsequently add it to ITM, the program seems to get stuck on the 3 step and reboots. As a result I am unable to add new songs to my iPhone because they are not in ITM. I also noticed that not all album artwork has been added to the iTunes and ITM. I have read other discussions and I know that I am not the only one having these issues. This is a very convenient service and I would like to continue to use it, however if Apple does not do anything about it, then I'll have to cancell my subscription.

gw100576 wrote:
While we're at it can anyone convince me itunes match is a good idea?? From what I've read from others it doesn't have that much going for it other than being a itunes back up........ I've got an external HDD for that so think I should have saved my money
That's exactly what it isn't, you should not use iTunes match as a back up. If titles are removed from the store you will no longer be able to download them. iTunes match works perfectly well for me as intended, that's with my library on my Mac backed up to an external HD and accessible via iTunes match on every other device I have.
As for your setting up issue, what do you mean by stopping and starting, are you turning iTunes match off when you do this.

Why wont my iTunes download the album artwork for the cd's that I import?

I'm a new Mac owner so I may be overlooking something simple. I have imported a few CD's succesfully but when i select "Preferences" and "Get Album Artwork" a message comes up that says "Could not get album artwork". I have looked in the itunes store to see if they have the album and its there... so why wont iTunes import the artwork to the albums i have imported? Thanks!

Where else can I get this?
On the World Wide Web!
iTunes will find the artwork if the album is available in the iTunes Store and your metadata precisely matches the Store data, in every respect (spaces, punctuation, spelling).
If iTunes does not get the art, simply use a web search to find the correct image.
To paste an image into a song file, highlight the file, use the command File > Get Info, open the Artwork tab, and drag the image into the space for art (or use Copy/Paste).

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