Missing album art after restore

This seems to be a recurring issue but I haven't found any definite solutions. After I restored my iPhone 5 and then restored my backup, the album art for much of my music is gone. They'll all show up on the Songs menu, but under Artist and Album, only some will show up. I've tried unsyncing (removing) all the songs and then resyncing (readding) them but to no avail. How can I get the album art to be displayed for everything?

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least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
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4). Click on the art then drag a copy to your desktop.
5). Go back to the GET INFO and highlight the artwork once again and click DELETE ...then OK.
6). Poof, the artwork will be deleted from the GET INFO and will no longer show for that song.
7). Go back to GET INFO window. (command i) ... click ADD in the ARTWORK tab.
8). Select the art file from your desktop (or where ever you dragged / saved the original to), click OK. I used a few personal pictures for some art and it worked too!
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Hope this works for you!
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The music was matched perfect, just a few missing album covers were missing (I'm fussy that way)... after doing the little fix suggest by "Sansimeon" (notted below) they all came in perfect...I actually had my iPad on the iTunes Artist section and while I made the changes (I was doing that on my mac) the album covers poped up on the iPad, it was kind of cool! I'm easily amused
As a follow-up note, I bought about 50 songs over the past 24 hours and all came in 100% with art... no more issues.
Enjoy!
Correct Answer by Sansimeon on Dec 21, 2011 6:18 PM
Got it fixed for the single songs, change the album artist to AAAA then clear the album artist and all is looking good. worked each time

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