Message: Album Artwork Not Modifiable

I can no longer add artwork to the albums I import, and I am not sure why this is happenening. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Make sure they the files are not read only, and if you change the source directory while the file is loaded, no changes will be made because itunes does not display an error message "path not found".

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"album artwork not modifiable"

after upgrading to version 7 it seems that the albums in my library have randomly been designated as "album artwork not modifiable" , making it impossible for me to even manually add the artwork.
any help appreciated.

For some reason, iTunes 7.0 is converting songs to QuickTime Movie files when it imports music into your song library. I'm not sure how to fix THAT, as it may be a bug with iTunes itself.
Instead of reverting to 6, try converting the file to something other than a QuickTime file (control + click or right-click and select "convert selection to xxx"). Once the file is converted to a format other than a QT movie, you should be able to save album artwork on that new file. Just delete the original (apple + i for the information screen to confirm that you are deleting the right file).
I just tried it myself, and it looks like this should work until Apple fixes iTunes 7. I've never seen iTunes import files as a QuickTime movie. I assume this is only a problem for MP3 files, because I tried importing an AAC file and it worked just fine.
Hope this helps!
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Updating Album Art, when iTunes says "Album Artwork Not Modifiable"

How can I go about updating or adding album art when the Artwork area at the lower left corner of iTunes says, "Album Artwork Not Modifiable"? Every effort to add the artwork from iTunes has failed. When I paste the album photo from another site, it doesn't save.

I figured this out. I found that the folder and files only had "read" privileges and not "read & write" privileges. I did the following:
1. In finder I right clicked the parent folder for iTunes and selected "Get Info".
2. Selected my user and changed the rights to "read & write".
3. This step is the most important. With my user still selected in blue, you click on the options "cog wheel" below the users, at the bottom. Select, "Apply to the enclosed items". It may ask you again if you are sure, say "yes". By doing this you will apply your users "read & write" privileges to all folders and files underneath your iTunes folder.
This worked for me and I wish you the best!

Why is "Album Artwork Not Modifiable" ?

I've seen this problem with certain MP3 files. However, this is now happening with some other songs that are AAC format. Can someone help me?
Thanks!

The option is not available; it says the Album Artwork Not Modifiable. Why not?!
The files are read-only or non-writable for some reason. Album Artwork is added to the files themselves, and if they're read only, iTunes can't add the artwork.
The reason it works after you convert the file is because the new copy of the file is not marked read-only.

Album Artwork not modifiable - why?

I'm having problems with my Podcast (channel) album art. It's a 300 x 300 jpeg, 72 dpi, but iTunes is telling me that its not modifiable. I've tried different file names - still doesn't work. Is there a colour depth limit? If so what is it? And is there a nice easy way to convert it using PSP7?
You can find that image here http://members.lycos.co.uk/squirrelbater/Logo2.jpg
Any help greatly appreciated. Probably get a shout out too!
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The option is not available; it says the Album Artwork Not Modifiable. Why not?!
The files are read-only or non-writable for some reason. Album Artwork is added to the files themselves, and if they're read only, iTunes can't add the artwork.
The reason it works after you convert the file is because the new copy of the file is not marked read-only.

Album artwork not modifiable problems

I can get album art from lots of places, the problem is I tunes will not let me put in. keeps coming up with album artwork not modifiable I'm not trying to modify anything. I just want to put some album art in. Is there a way around this ?? I tunes is pretty good most of the time, but sometimes it makes a person want to just go sit in a corner and eat dirt..........
Windows XP

Ah, okay. Well, if you are trying to get artwork by using that handy "Get Album Artwork" feature of iTunes, it is likely that you aren't going to get some art because the iTunes database doesn't have every album under the sun.
So here is what you do: 1) Run a Google image search, or something similar, and find the artwork online. (If you own the album physically, you can always scan the artwork into your computer yourself if you have a scanner.)
2) Save the artwork to your hard drive (make sure it's a jpg or other common format).
3) Open iTunes, and select all the songs in an album that you wish to add the artwork to (should be highlighted in blue), right- or ctrl-click on the selection, and select "Get Info." You will probably get a "Do you want to do this?" window, so hit "okay."
4) You should see a section in the lower-right corner of the new window that says "Album Art" or similar. Double-click on that empty space, and navigate to the file you just saved on your hard drive.
5) Select the art, hit all of the okay buttons you need to, and let iTunes process it.
Voilà, you have album art.
Peach

Album Artwork Not Modifiable, or any other info....

It seems like randomly my iTunes decides that it won't let me change ANY of the info on the song. I've looked at other questions, and I've tried to uncheck the Read Only box under the Properties for Internet Explorer, and I've tried to convert the ID3 tags, but it won't let me click on that option. I have uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes, but that only helped for a short period of time (half an hour). Please help me because I'm crazy when it comes to organizing my iTunes and this is driving me nuts. Thank you in advance.

hi Steve, I have an 80gb Classic but it shouldn't make a difference. this should work for MP3 files:
1. try deleting the artwork for the songs by selecting the songs; right-click and get info; click the checkbox just of the left of the artwork box and press OK. This will get rid of any artwork that might already be associated or embedded in the file.
2. find the artwork on the internet, and (in windows) right-click the artwork and select Copy, don't download and save the file it's not necessary.
3. toggle back to iTunes and right-click in the image box in the lower left and select Paste. This will paste the image into all the selected songs from step 1.
P.S. this site is a pretty good source for artwork http://rateyourmusic.com/

I am trying to get the artwork for an album. "Artwork Not Modifiable" appears in the artwork box and it doesn't let me drag artwork. What can I do to fix this?

I am trying to get the artwork for an album. "Artwork Not Modifiable" appears in the artwork box and it doesn't let me drag artwork. What can I do to fix this?

Words simply can't describe what a kludge iTunes has become. Every time Apple fixes one problem, a dozen more pop up. It's like trying to hold a bunch of ping-pong balls under water simultaneously.
The immediate problem is that Lion with iTunes buggers the artwork. Some it loses, some it can't find, and some appears and disappears like the Flying Dutchman (look it up...).
The bigger issue is that so MUCH of iTunes is bad, in general. Apple trys to use iTunes as a Swiss Army knife, using it to synch iPhones, iPads, etc. The app has become so generic that it is actually good at nothing.
The interfrace is kludgy; moving the library from one location to another virtually guarantees a wasted day and usually lost art, music, or backups.
In general, Apple's hardware and software is relatively ergonomically designed. I-Tunes, however just plain SUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS!

"Artwork Not Modifiable"? What and why?

This is horrible. It makes me not want to upgrade any new Apple software to newer versions -- they just add restrictions. This one is nowhere mentioned in the iTunes "Help" feature.

I just noticed this problem one of my albums. It was interesting because only three of 20 songs were affected and nothing about them seemed different from those that had artwork (same format, ripped from the same CD at the same time). The artwork preview window in the lower left corner had the "Artwork Not Modifiable" message you described, and when looking at the song's info the Artwork tab was greyed out.
The workaround I found was this: First copy the artwork you desire to your clipboard, using Command+C. Then select multiple songs, at least one of which had unmodifiable artwork and at least one that had the appropriate artwork. I clicked Command+I (Get Info), which when multiple items are selected gives you a place to put artwork in the Info tab. I selected the artwork area and clicked Command+V to paste the artwork, then clicked OK. Seems to have worked each time so far.
Good luck!

Installing art when "Album Art Not Modifiable"

I was recently trying to drag and drop album artwork into the iTunes photo receptacle in the lower left hand corner and noticed that it read "Album Art Not Modifiable". Does that mean I can't paste anything there? There's no art at all currently, even when I ask iTunes to find the album art for that CD. If anyone knows of a way to override this, I'd appreciate it. Thank you.

Is that really true?
'Cause being new to this, I've only just added a few albums as .wav and succesfully downloaded album art, using the functionality within Itunes. And this should not have been possible?For instance Loretta Lynn "Van Lear Rose", Emmylou Harris "Stumble into grace" and Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach "Painted from Memory" all worked just fine. But Itunes was not able to download album art for all my albums - Simply Red "Greatest Hits" from 1996 was one that did not work. So I browsed the internet and was able to find jpegs of this album art, which I know have stored locally. But how do I get that into Itunes?
brgds,
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ITunes 7 Errors/Glitches and Album Artwork Not Displaying on iPod

Looks like a lot of people are having problems with the new iTunes 7. After downloading iTunes7 and the new ipod updater, and having iTunes go and get the album artwork I was missing, some of the album artwork that displayed in iTunes would not display on my iPod (Gen 5). Very weird. I then tried to follow the suggestions on this board to deselect the "display album art on ipod" (in the Music tab of iPod preferences) so that I could then reselect and resynch (which supposed to fix the problem). It was very difficult to achieve this, as iTunes repeatedly had problems recognizing my ipod (even though it was sitting there in the source list). Managed to somehow get it to work, only to discover that while some missing album artwork had been added to ipod and properly displayed, others that had been there before were now gone (but were fine in iTunes)!!! And trying to repeat the deselect/reselect steps only resulted in more error messages ("The Settings were not saved for the iPod ___ because it could not be found." and "iPod update failed. disconnect and reconnect, then try again.")
I happen to have Apple Care for my iPod. Was on phone for ONE HOUR with rep who, while friendly, had no idea what was going on.
Okay Apple, I hope you're reading this, PLEASE FIX THE BUGS. I thought I escaped the problems of buggy software releases when I switched from Microsoft to Apple.
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UPDATE on previous posting:
Okay, with help of previously mentioned Apple rep, I uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes 7 AND restored my iPod G5. After resynching my 5000+ songs, ALL the album artwork not displaying per previous posting is now displaying. HOWEVER (and Apple employees please take note here), when I tried to change the iPod settings AT ALL (e.g., deselect Synch Movies, TV Shows, Games, etc.) and then select APPLY, same problem!! So it appears this is where the problem lies. Somehow making any changes to these options and then hitting Apply causes the error ("...iPod could not be found" etc.) My workaround (since I am not intending to use iPod for movies or TV shows or games) is to change the Main Menu listings in Settings so I don't have to see them.
APPLE: PLEASE STUDY AND FIX! Thank you....

Missing artwork, artwork not modifiable

After I subscribed to iTunes Match last night, many of my albums were missing artwork. I was going to just drag new artwork in, but the box says "artwork not modifiable". Any suggestions?

Try this. I made this video after my artwork wasnt showing up either. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igffr3SXtiI&feature=g-upl&context=G28dd763AUAAAAA AAFAA

Artwork not modifiable, how to change this?

I just downloaded a free song off of a website using Firefox. I chose "open with iTunes". The song went straight o my iTunes and is playing fine.
Only problem is that there is no artwork. It says 'artwork not modifiable'.
**When I right click and choose "get info" everything is "locked" or something and I'm not allowed to edit anything.
The file is a "MPEG audio file".
What's the problem and how do I fix it?

Hey there,
Locate the file in explorer. When you find it, right->click the file name and choose Properties from the Menu. Make sure that +Read Only+ is not check at the bottom of the window that pops up. See if that helps.
B-rock

Songs Won't Play, Album Art Not Modifiable, ID3 Tags, Need Help

I have a 32 GB iPod Touch, Windows Vista, the latest version of iTunes and Quicktime as well as the latest iPod software.
I noticed the other day that a bunch of my songs were missing album art. I have a library with almost 7,000 songs and I have album art for everything. I went to the songs to attempt to fix the album art and noticed that it said, Album Art Not Modifiable, in the Album Art preview screen. I thought that was weird and it wouldn't let me add new album art to these albums.
I also noticed that none of these songs would play. They wouldn't play on my iPod or on iTunes. You can click play and it looks like it's going to play, but the counter never leaves "0".
I thought something was wrong with my files and that I would have to re rip or download the songs. However, by chance I opened one of the songs in Window Media Player and it worked, so I knew the files were fine.
I did a search online and found several people with the same problem and a few things to try. But nothing worked until I stumbled upon a solution of setting the ID3 tags to version "None", then setting them to version 2.4. I tried it and it worked.
But now it keeps happening, I get a new group of albums every day that won't play.
Can anyone tell me what is causing this?
How do I prevent it?
Do I really need to take every song in my library and change the ID3 tags, that could take forever?
Could anyone please help and shed some light on this.
Thank You

Thanks for replying, Please read our Operating System details before taking a guess about what 'could' be the problem...
I think I figured it out anyway, Windows Media Player might be adding extra information that iTunes does not like, either Windows Media Player and/or iTunes 7.7.1 don't conform to ID3 v2.4 standards...
Please fix your software, Apple. I know how you love to be unique and mock PC users with your one-sided advertisements but at least conform to the ID3 standards.

Album artwork not appearing on Apple TV

Album artwork not appearing on Apple TV anyone with same problem or fix

Bilk you're not alone! No Album Art work will load on my Apple TV now, despite having artwork for ALL my albums, my iOS devices display the the artwork (iTunes Match) I live in the UK. (Virgin Media customer) I've had nothing but problems since the last 2 OS updates, I have 3rd and 2nd gen Apple TVs, both now have the same problems, I have done full restore on both devices, still doesn't work. I hope Apple fixes the software soon.

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