Moving iTunes Libraries and Album Art

I’m running iTunes on a Windows desktop and have about 700 albums. I’ve manually added album art to about 100 of these. I have a need to determine the BPM of all my songs so I can group them accordingly. I’m using Tangerine to do this. It is a Mac-only app (and is fantastic!) so I port my entire iTunes folder from the desktop to a MacBook via a USB drive. When I view the library on the Mac, it doesn’t show the album art for those 100 albums, nor does it do so when I move the iTunes folder back to the Windows desktop after Tangerine has updated the BPM values.
What can I do to keep this album art?
Thanks, MERunner

Make sure your ID3 tags are v2.3. iTunes default imports as v2.2.
Just highlight the songs, right click > Convert ID3 tags.
Also, you need to add the artwork to the ID3 tag of each file. iTunes by default puts it in a folder on each PC to save space, by just having one artwork file per album, not per song.
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http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6309880#6309880

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- Reset all settings
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