Missing ART

I need someones help, I have look all over the internet, I have over 8500 song on my Itunes with a 80 gig ipod so i have enough room. My problem comes with the ART I have art for every single MP3. I'm very meticulous about that, in Itunes you can see every piece of album has ART. When i transfer to the ipod some of the ART display and some doesn't. I have check and uncheck the "Display album artwork on your Ipod" in other to rebuild the databases, does anyone have a clue on how to get all the ART work into the IPOD. I work very hard to find all the ART to have it not displayed.
I have Itunes 8 the latest version

To add artwork to multiple items (e.g. all the songs in an album) highlight your selection (click on the first track in your list, hold down the shift key and click on the last). Right click anywhere in the selection and choose Get Info, when you are asked if you want to edit multiple items say yes. Drag your artwork to the small artwork box down on the right and choose OK. Alternatively you can also highlight all the songs and drag the artwork to the small pane at the bottom of the source list.

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Is there any sensible way to list out only the songs/albums that are missing album art?
Wading through all of them manually in the "Cover Flow" view is not an option, I've got far to much music for that.
If I could pull out a "missing art" report of some sort I'd atleast have a decent starting point for scanning/downloading covers.
On a related note; Is it possible to "tag" albums you don't want iTunes to process when downloading art? A "Missing arts" view/filter would solve this, i suppose.
(Highlighting all tracks in this view and fetching the art for only those.)
Also; is it possible to exclude tracks I know there won't be any art for?

Please go the following website - http://dougscripts.com/itunes/. Doug's scripts is an invaluable resource for this. Search using managing artwork. You will find a script that will copy all songs w/o artwork to a playlist. It will search you whole library. Not sure if you can exclude some, but why bother. Once you have the songs w/o artwork identified, you can add the artwork, delete songs form the list or delete the whole list.

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To add artwork to multiple items (e.g. all the songs in an album) highlight your selection (click on the first track in your list, hold down the shift key and click on the last). Right click anywhere in the selection and choose Get Info, when you are asked if you want to edit multiple items say yes. Drag your artwork to the small artwork box down on the right and choose OK. Alternatively you can also highlight all the songs and drag the artwork to the small pane at the bottom of the source list.

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Hi,
I just post here some informations regarding missing art cover in the iPad application Movie.
As I got some troubles with some missing cover despite showing correctly on iTunes, I just wanted to post the solution I found.
I found that in my case only movies with multiple resolutions were missing (like SD/HD) on my iPad 2 despite both version had the cover.
I just switched the default version to SD instead of HD (right click on the video in iTunes -> version) . iTunes did something at that time because there was some disk access.
Then I synchronised my iPad. Boom, the missing art cover shown up. I switched all missing cover movie to SD then sync. All covers appeared.
Then I just switched back to HD without any issues. It seems that iTunes is creating some cache thumbnail on the hard drive when switching default version that is then transferred to the iPad.
I lost a lot of time on this one so if it can help people with the same troubles, here is the solution.
I opened a bug at Apple so they can fix it too.
Cheers.

i'm sorry - I don't understand how you changed the version of the movie - I can't find where you changed from SD-HD. I updated my wife's ipad - the movies play just fine, but the cover artwork disappeared - help!

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Hi, I have a small problem with some of my albums, for one or two random tracks I am unable to add / edit arkwork... if I right click on the track "Get Info", I am given four tabs - Summary, Info, Sorting & Options... usually there is a fith tab for artwork, indeed it is there for the adjacent tracks that have artwork.
I have tried moving my music from my iTunes folder before deleting it & starting afresh with iTunes, but the problem persists.
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When you rip/import your own CD's, you have to manually copy and paste album artwork into each song....although you may already know that. I just thought I'd mention that.....because I had a friend that did not know that. They thought if they copied and pasted on the first song....that it would automatically show up on all songs on that album.

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1.Some of my Album Art is imported from iTunes, some is copied / pasted from internet since I can't get it from "Import Art" from iTunes. I also use an external hard drive to store my iTunes on. iTunes plays fine, and in iTunes, all my album art is displayed. However, several albums (only about 10 out of over 1000) show no album art at all in my iPod(s). I download it again, drag it into the window where you drop artwork and it seems fine in iTunes but again will not show up in my iPod. The image is fine as it shows in iTunes and is the same size as all my other image files I have used.
I have even deleted all the art from each individual track in iTunes which had missing art and reloaded it - same thing. This is making me nuts! Any ideas? I'm a very anal person and I want art on every track/album.
This happens on my new iPod classic 80G w/video as well as an older iPod classic which doesn't support cover flow but still shows album art.
2.On an even weirder note, if I eject/disconnect my external drive to use my laptop, when I reconnect, most of my album art is gone in iTunes. However, if I use the cover flow view to locate the albums with no art, when I get to them I press enter to play the first (or any) song on the album and as soon as it starts to play, the art comes back and then stays! This is very strange. Almost as if iTunes forgot where the art is but playing the song somehow reunites it. I don't get it.

For #1, the iPod's Artwork cache does get corrupted when making frequent changes. In the iPod's Music preferences tab in iTunes, remove the check beside "Display album artwork on your iPod" and select Apply.
Once the iPod has finished syncing, recheck it and hit Apply again. iTunes should recreate the artwork cache and re-sync it to your iPod.
For #2, are you running the itunes database (it has an ITL extension) from the exHD ? Or from the default location on your C: drive. The downloaded artwork from the itunes store goes into a folder named Album Artwork, and that is created in the same folder as the ITL file.
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SOLUTION: After 48 hours, 100% of the artwork is now appearing. If it's in iTunes, it's on the iPhone.
However, there's a few hoops I jumped through to make it all work:
In iTunes, if album art is not showing in the Grid view, buy you know you have album art associated with it, select Get Info on any of the tracks. Magically, the album art appears in Grid view. Repeat for all albums with missing art.
When you're all done with the art, in iTunes, select [store] [update iTunes Match]
Wait 24 hours
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Project is closed in my book.
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Yes, I have this issue as well. The art downloaded in iTunes does not register with the Album Art Screen Saver. The only art that is registered is that which was obtained through third party widgets. I can only assume that the missing art is not being stored in the proper folder. I hope someone has a fix for this.
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OK so I have been able to come up with a solution that worked for me, for the most part. Here it is:
1) Find an album in my iPod Touch with missing art in coverflow
2) Download the missing art from the internet, unless I already have it
3) Open iTunes and find the album in my music library
4) Highlight every track in the album
5) Right click>get info
6) Double click the box named "Artwork" on bottom right
7) Finder will open. Locate the art I downloaded and select "open". Click ok.
8) Sync iPod.
The album art now appears in coverflow mode again and stays there.
**Here is the problem: For songs missing artwork that are individual and not part of an album, when I click "get info", the "artwork" box doesnt show up, and I cant use the method described above.
Here is what I did for those:
1) Download the art for the track with art that doesnt show up in coverflow
2) Locate the track with missing art in iTunes library
3) Right Click>get info
4) Click the "artwork" tab
5) Delete the art thats there
6) Add the art I just downloaded
7) Sync
After that they were all there in my coverflow except for 2 songs that are individual. I can't seem to fix them no matter what. All my art has been restored and viewable in coverflow now except for 2 songs. I can live with that for now.
I have 495 albums and a total of 2,835 songs so it wasnt too bad for me since my library isnt that massive. Only about 19GB

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Everything looks fine in iTunes, zero albums missing art, but all of the old problem albums I had in iTunes still don't show album art in my iPhone. I've already tried deleting the offending albums in the iPhone and resyncing, but they still don't show the album art that I see in iTunes.
Is there any way to manually select album art on an iPhone?

Having this problem as well. Surprised to see there's a huge number of threads on this problem, all between the end of January and now.
The killer is, this is art that would copy perfectly well to my iPhone since *release day* last year. But with a recent full restore (thanks to the third major AT&T screw-up since... release day), looks like the art refuses to come over.
Bizarre, since nothing changed after the restore - same firmware I had before the restore!
This is killing me. Between the major AT&T issues (the likes of which I never had on 7+ years of Sprint/Helio) and the minor annoyances like this one (one of many functional issues), I routinely want to throw my iPhone against the wall. Which *****, because I love it overall. But when your phone + music player keeps having issues BEING a phone, OR a music player, it's time to look at other carriers/hardware until the kinks are worked out.
Not going to bother calling Apple, it'll be "did you restore?"

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Just discovered a way to not fix this problem, but stop it from happening again.
I suspect our lost artwork was from copy/pasting the artwork into itunes. somehow the syncing with the iphone, has made itunes 'forget' where it saved the temporary file of the copy/pasted artwork.
So...
i created a folder in itunes (user > music >itunes > album artwork) call 'manual'. i physically saved the JPEGS in there for all the artwork i wanted to add manually.
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next sync (and all subsequent syncs so far), the problem has not re-appeared.
HOWEVER! oddly it still affects one CD. no idea why. the artwork is in Itunes, but just doesn't show on the iphone. no idea why.
BOTTOM LINE Apple need to fix this bug. It's really irritating.
And one quick way around this is to stop users having to manually add album art all the time. All my songs are on itunes to buy, so there is no reason why iTunes couldnt supply the artwork. Apple need to link the database they use to recognise CDs (when you 'rip' them to iTunes) with their own itunes store database, so if the track data or album art is missing, you have the option to 'find this album'. this would be a fantastic feature.

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