Lost Album Artwork

Does anyone know how to recover album artwork that was lost during an upgrade? They are still missing even when I try to retrieve it from the pull-down menu which always used to work.

Heey,
no need to downgrade your ipod's software.
The problem is in iTunes - it can not build successfully the artwork database on the iPod device.
What you need to do is:
1) go to
http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/screens.php
and download the trial version of Anapod Explorer
2) Install it. On the options page enable artworks on your ipod, than find a button named "Rebuild Artwork database" or something like that and click it. In 20 seconds your artworks will be working again
3) Complain to Apple !!!
iTunes for windows is a ******** software !
I don't know about the mac os version, but since you are complaining about broken artworks it seems it is not working as well under mac os !
Ok, everybody makes mistakes, but the problem is that apple are not confessing they make mistakes because they are soooo great ...
I am never again going to use itunes

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Hello,
I'm running Windows XP, although this problem appears to be both OS- and platform-independent. I've read several forums within and outside the Apple Support site that describe issues around lost album artwork.
In a nutshell, iTunes loses artwork that was manually obtained/added (and also iTunes-downloaded). I know I can right-click lost albums for downloaded music, but this is annoying because I have thousands of albums (or single songs from albums) and I don't want to constantly reload the information. It's even more aggravating because a large portion of my music collection consists of rare albums, and it's not unusual for me to spend significant time finding a single cover.
I've tried some tips described in the forums, but it really comes down to users asking: Can Apple please acknowledge that this is a broad v8.x.x issue and commit to resolving it in an official release?
Artwork coverflow-style viewing is a huge part of the music experience to me. I LOVE iTunes, but not if using it means that I'll constantly be frustrated and worried about data loss. I'm loyal to iTunes and don't want to leave, but I'm already looking at other players.
Apple - We're begging you. Can you please fix this?
Thanks
-B

Hello ! This is a user chat board - you can provide feedback to Apple via itunes menu > Help > Provide iTunes Feedback.
My artwork doesn't get lost, so I wonder what is different on your PC? I've embedded the artwork in the MP3 tags, and they are ID3 v2.3.
You might check your Windows Media Player settings. The default settings get info from the internet and can change things without you ever 'running' WMP. Then the next time you look at a file in iTunes, it is changed - so it seems iTunes did it.
It's in 3 places in WMP - general, privacy, and library tabs.
If you are talking about itunes store downloaded artwork going missing, that's a different matter. I think not, since you mentioned rare albums - presumably not sold in iTS, so therefore not downloaded from iTS.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1815
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12361
iTunes 11 for Mac: Add artwork to songs and other items
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12161
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