Itunes will not forget old artwork
About 2 years ago I manually added artwork for all of my tracks. If I could not find artwork I added a uniform 'blank record' picture to take the place of the musical note which itunes placed in the absence of artwork.
Now I have come to update these old pieces of artwork - but itunes will not let them go...
I have tried deleting the old artwork, and adding in the new artwork. Itunes instantly displays the OLD artwork as soon as I drag the new artwork in, even though I have just deleted the old artwork right before..
I have tried every possible combination of removing / adding, then adding in an intermediary step of changing album or artist title to try and get itunes to 'lose' the link to the old artwork which it is obviously still holding on to, but nothing works. I just cannot get itunes to forget the old artwork!
Another weird thing - in the drag and drop panel in the bottom left, the new artwork will be displayed just as I have dragged in, but the OLD artwork is displayed in the cover flow or grid views, and on my ipod.
Are there any suggestions for ridding my library of these old pieces of artwork?
Thanks for the suggestions - I'm going to try deleting the artwork folder tonight to see what success that brings. Would I delete the entire artwork folder or just the cache folder from inside that?
All of the tracks did have full tags, although the vast majority of them are single, stand alone tracks, not part of albums. I have a feeling that permissions could be an issue, as I have been having trouble with itunes organizing my files / folders in the finder as well. If I change the album name on one of these tracks for example, itunes will create the new album name within the artist folder, but will not move the file into this new folder as I imagine should be the case. It seems as if itunes cannot really get to these files for whatever reason...
I did find some sort of solution late last night. I remove the offending track from my library, selecting 'keep files'. Then select add to library and bring it straight back in. I can then alter the artwork with the changes taking place properly. Although, I did test the other issue by changing the artist / album name on one of these re-added tracks but itunes can still not seem to move them around within the itunes music folder to file them correctly. This isnt a big deal in itself but I wonder if it points to a larger problem?
Message was edited by: davidclarke
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