Music Album Art

Hi, I have a new ipod touch 4th generation. And having problem's downloading my music from Windows Player, which I had already arranged my albums with titles and correct album art.
But when they downloaded on to the ipod the albums are split into singles and no album art. Please can you help me to fix this problem?
I tried so far by going into Advanced and clicked on "Get Album Artwork", it runs through and then finishes by saying Apple could not find 356 Album Artwork.
I've also tried to drag and drop the singles back into albums, but they will not move, how can I edit my music?
Thanks!

If the album is a various artists album, it needs to be marked with *Part of a compilation* and have *Various Artists* typed into the *Album Artists* field.
So highlight all the tracks from that one album and select *File/Get Info/Options* and change *Part of a compilation* to Yes. *Album Artists* is on the Info tab.
For all albums, (single artist or various), make sure the *Album name* is identical for every track on an album.
As for the artwork, first question is what format are your songs in, MP3 or WAV? You cannot add artwork to WAV files, Window Media Player uses a special method for adding art to them, which only WMP can do. To get the artwork for MP3s, copy and paste it into the artwork box for the album. iTunes is unlikely to prove the best way for you to add art to existing MP3s.
Phil

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