Missing album art on iPod

All the time my iPod does not recieve the album art pictures that I match up with each individual song. It happens at random. Some songs have no picture and others are assigned the wrong picture. This is real frusterating. I have everything in order on iTunes (pictures with their songs), but my iPod does not seem to get the pictures right. If my iTunes is all in order, then why is my iPod not in order too??? I spend way too much time trying to fix these problems and not enough enjoying the program.

Have you tried resetting your iPod? Doing so has fixed my iPod album art problem (though it's not the same one you are having.)

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That happens sometimes
Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all music and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

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Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all music and resync
- Reset all settings
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All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
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bfollowell wrote:
I even unchecked the box under My ipod that says "show album art" (maybe mistakenly thinking that was referring to synching album art.
That's indeed the reason your album art doesn't show on the iPod. Check this box, maybe resync, and the iPod should show the images you embedded in the mp3-files.
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