Manually Adding Artwork

I used to be able to cut and paste album artwork into iTunes. Since the release of iTunes 7, I cannot do this. Can anyone help out? Is there a way to copy artwork (say out on Amazon) and paste it into iTunes anymore?
macbook   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

I have no problem dragging artwork to the lower left hand corner in Itunes 7.0.2. Be sure to check whether that lower left hand corner box is showing "currently playing" or "selected" as that will determine where the artwork goes (so if you've got it set to "selected" and are playing track A but have track B selected the artwork will go to track B even if you intended for it to go to track A).

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    *You can add many popular types of still-image files, including JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and Photoshop. You must convert WAV files to another format before you can add artwork.*
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    Hi there, I'm scanning the artwork that comes from my CDs to add them to the songs. I'm noticing that when I do it, the song file size grows. Which sounds logical. At the same time I understand that what happens to the song-files when the artworks are downloaded automatically from the iTS is different (I'm not sure here, I'm just guessing): The songs don't really grow in size as the artwork doesn't really go into them. What I understand is that they are stored somewhere else and the songs just refer to them.
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  • Problem with adding artwork manually in itunes

    I'm having trouble manually adding artwork to several albums in itunes 10.7 on macbook pro (the 'get album artwork' facility won't pick these discs up presumably because they're too obscure).
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  • Why is the latest version of iTunes suddenly unable to accept manually added album artwork

    Why is the latest version of iTunes suddenly unable to accept manually added album artwork

    ed2345 wrote:
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    I say 320x320 because I believe (from using TouchCopy) that it's the size used in the iPod cache so if you're going to crop or resize you might as well work to that size. Otherwise 200x200 is probably good enough.
    tt2

  • I Suddenly Cannot Manually Add Artwork To Songs (??)

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    Ok I know more.  The two discs I was adding artwork to had a small number of tracks.  One had 2 and the other had 3.  I believe this is why the artwork was not showing.
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