Join these 2 iTunes folders in Windows 7 preserving artwork

I have searched and not found an up to date understandable answer as how
to join 2 working portable same apple user iTunes folders into one itunes folder
while above all else preserving hand edited Abum Artwork and hand edited tags.
( It was many hours of hand edited added Album Artwork and editing of tags )
Situation is Windows 7 ( 64 bit ) with current iTunes installed ( 2014-03-17 )
The hard drive crashed and the \iTunes folder and all contents have been copied and backed up.
The windows 7 64 bit and latest iTunes 64 bit has been re-installed cleanly ( no old music added )
Music from the iTunes cloud was then added/downloaded into iTunes
Now \itunes has 40 gig of music available to play, all is ok
Now I want to join the currently installed working \itunes folder ( 40 gig of music )
with the old saved \itunes folder ( 100 gig of music ) into just one \iTunes folder
with preserving the current Album Artwork and editing of "tags" of both folders.
I have seen previous answers that use words like "consolidate " , "export / import ",
"merge" , "apple home sharing" , "use explorer to copy ..."
none of which mentioned if the current Album Artwork
or tags survive unchanged from their current "specially edited" status.
It was easy to find out how to "backup" the \itunes folder and make them "portable".
I currently can rename my \iTunes folder \oldiTunes and start itunes with the
Shift key held down to "Choose Library" to point to the ".itl" file and load
either one of the iTunes "Libraries" ( the 40 gig new clean itunes or the
older 100 gig itunes ) and it will play the music when asked.
I know their may be the ineviatable "duplicates", but there seems
to be several ways to handle them.
Please provide an explanation of how to join these 2 iTunes folders
into one while preserving Album Artwork and tags.
Thanks

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
I've a feeling that Windows Vista & 7 differ from XP in that they "should" be able to create folder images on the fly from the files themselves. In XP this is a side effect of having the media files catalogued by Windows Media Player which in turn creates hidden Folder.jpg images in each folder that holds WMP compatible media. I have a script called CreateFolderArt which can automate the production of Folder.jpg images for all types of iTunes media which you might find useful.
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Please HELP join these 2 iTunes folders in Windows 7 preserving album artwork & tags (discussion reply requested)

(Discussion Reply Requested ) Please HELP join these 2 iTunes folders in
Windows 7 preserving album artwork & "tags"
I have searched and not found an up to date understandable answer as how
to join 2 working portable same (apple ID) user iTunes folders into one itunes folder
while above all else preserving hand edited Abum Artwork and hand edited tags.
( It was many hours of hand edited added Album Artwork and editing of tags )
Situation is Windows 7 ( 64 bit ) with current iTunes installed ( 2014-03-17 )
The hard drive crashed and the old \iTunes folder and all old contents have been copied and backed up.
The windows 7 64 bit and latest iTunes 64 bit has been re-installed cleanly ( no old music added )
Music from the iTunes cloud was then added/downloaded into iTunes
Now \itunes has 40 gig of music available to play.
Now I want to join the currently installed working \itunes folder ( 40 gig of music )
with the old saved \itunes folder ( 100 gig of music ) into just one \iTunes folder
with preserving the current Album Artwork and editing of "tags" of both folders.
I have seen previous answers that use words like " consolidate " , " export / import ",
" merge " , " apple home sharing " , " use explorer to copy ..." , ect
none of which mentioned if the current Album Artwork
or tags survive unchanged from their current "specially edited" status.
I know their may be the ineviatable "duplicates", but there seems
to be several ways to handle them. ( If you know the best way to
prevent or remove duplicates in this situation with joining two
iTunes folders in Windows please include that information also ).
Please provide an explanation of how to join these 2 iTunes folders
in Windows 7 into one \iTunes folder while preserving Album Artwork and tags.

Mike, thanks for the response. I will try this. I'll have to dig around here too, bc I want to know more about how I can import a windows xml file (while replacing the drive paths) and it creating a seperate itunes library with the pointers on the mac. Essentially, I have 2 libraries and there may not be a way around this with a windows machine and a mac - ive read plenty on Choose library on open, and mac to mac, windows to windows.
I also need to know more about what is getting stored in the album art folders. I believe it seems that when you select all, and copy the image in the artwork get info page its actually embedding these images in the files themselves, but if you paste into the left bottom artwork display pane its just adding where?? If I deleted the contents of this folder what would happen, should I not be copying this content?
If I update the images on the mac and swap out the drive paths and move the external drive back to the windows box, will i lose any updates I did while on the mac?
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i am unable to manually add artwork via itunes 12 on windows 7. I've tried all the suggestions to no avail. Has anyone succeeded on the same platform as me?

The new iTunes 12 Get Info dialog lacks right-click context menus (at least for now) but it still accepts most standard keyboard shortcuts and drag & drop actions.
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Or, tap the image at the top left of Get Info, this time use Backspace or Delete, it is Ctrl+X that doesn't work.
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Or, select artwork, press Ctrl+C to copy, tap the small image area at the top left, press Ctrl+V to paste.
Or, you can drag & drop to, or sometimes from, the same locations.
You can also copy artwork from the Get Info dialog to Windows Explorer with the keyboard shortcuts.
If the source image is on a web page right-click and use Copy Image rather than copy. (With Chrome I get a one pixel wraparound so tend to go for a temporary local copy anyway - not sure whose bug this is, but it isn't new.)
If you have multiple images embedded drag the one you want to be the primary artwork to the leftmost position.
Replace/Remove All Artwork
The top left image box can be used to add or delete art from multiple tracks. In either case all existing artwork in all tracks is replaced/removed.
Old Style Get Info Dialog
Select some items, right-click, hold down shift, then click Get Info from the context menu. (Use alt/option on a Mac)
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I'm doing the suggestion now. It's coverting everything for iTunes while I type this.
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HT1925: Removing and Reinstalling iTunes for Windows XP
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Follow the instructions on this link, basically un-install everything, remove programs that says they are made by apple inc. (using add remove program)
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You will also need to check and verify that the following folders have been removed:
C:\Program Files\Bonjour
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do this for files under program files and program file (x86) on your computer
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I'm getting this error message: "User not registered for online use" when i'm trying to download music/ track names from a CD into ITunes on my Windows 8 PC. I'm registered and my itunes account/ appleID are all correct and working.

I'm getting this error message: "User not registered for online use" when i'm trying to download music/ track names from a CD into ITunes on my Windows 8 PC. I'm registered and my itunes account/ appleID are all correct and working.

The ""not recognized for on-line use". error is associated with the Gracenote service that iTunes uses to look up and retrieve metadata for CDs. Some users have reported that this error occurs when trying to import from CD, subsequent to upgrading to version 12. A number of slightly different solutions have been reported (though all of a similar nature).
Try walking through the following steps - before starting you may have to enable hidden files and folders to be viewed - in Windows 7 / Windows Explorer select Organize > Folder and search options, then on the View tab make sure that Show hidden files, folders and drives is selected. Without this you won't see the AppData folder in C:\Users\username\
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com.apple.iTunes.Gracenote.plist
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If this doesn't work:
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Exit iTunes
In Windows Explorer, go to the folder C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes
Delete the following file:iTunesPrefs.xml
Restart iTunes
Insert a CD and see if details are now correctly retrieved from Gracenote
If this second procedure does work, you'll need to restore other iTunes preferences settings to those that you noted in step 1.
If this one didn't work:
Exit iTunes
Check the following folders:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Apple Computer\iTunes
C:\Users\username\AppData\LocalLow\Apple Computer\iTunes
Delete any copies of the following files:
CD Info.cidb
com.apple.iTunes.Gracenote.plist
iTunesPrefs.xml
Restart iTunes
Insert a CD and see if details are now correctly retrieved from Gracenote
Again, if this procedure does work, you'll need to restore other iTunes preferences settings to those that you noted in step 1 of the second procedure. If you're still not able to retrieve CD info:
Exit iTunes
In Windows, select Start > Control Panel > Programs and Features. Find the entry for iTunes, right-click and select Repair.
When this process has finished, restart iTunes
Insert a CD and see if details are now correctly retrieved from Gracenote
If none of these have worked (and almost everything I've seen suggests you should be OK by this point), you may have an issue with the installation and configuration of iTunes itself. If you have got this far, see turingtest2's notes on Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates for advice on how to remove and replace of all components of iTunes.

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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.
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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?
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