My album art on my iphone 5 keeps disappearing

Anyone know why or how my album artwork on my iphone 5 keeps disappearing off of my phone? It has happened twice now. Its all there then i hook up to my computer to import more music then when i eject all the artwork that was there is gone. Its driving my nuts. How do I get it back?

Same here, exactly. Lots of other people are having the same issues with album art. It faults with movies too.
It's a software fault.
Apple don't care and have no intention of fixing it.
They've got our money already.
I suggest you go to an Apple store and create a fuss.
That's what I'm going to do.

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This might fix you're problem, but might not. I've only checked this for my solution.
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This has been issue for long time even for iPods before iPhone.
The cause is this.
There are multiple ways of manually applying artwork to a song in iTunes. Only 1 is the best way to make sure artwork goes with the file.
The three ways are:
1. Drag a file/image to the bottom window where it displays artwork when a song is selected.
2. Using the "Find Album Artwork" option in the right click menu for a song.
3. Using "Get Info" option to bring up the Tags of the song and pasting a image into the artwork tab.
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If you use the little artwork window and put images in there, or if you tell iTunes to find artwork, what it does is uses the image supplied or the one it finds and then saves that image to a hidden file on your computer. Then iTunes notes/saves a pointer to that file matched to song. So "iTunes" when playing or looking at the file will say, oh there is a pointer to a file, let me go find that file and display the image. All good and dandy for iTunes.
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So the 3rd option of using "Get Info" to get into the tag editor does it different.
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