ITunes not finding cover art

During the process of ripping my CD's into iTunes on my new Mac Mini I am frustrated by the fact that iTunes cannot find cover art for multi million selling albums from Metallica, AC/DC, Queensryche, and other obviously popular artists. Cover art that is easily found by Windows Media Player on my Dell PC. What is the problem here? It is not like these are obscure B sides or anything like that. Any solutions to this problem would be appreciated.

Well, I got the artwork back by opening the first track (sometimes it had to be the second or even the third track) with CMD-I then clicking ok.

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