No album artwork in coverflow

I have album artwork for all of my albums, but for some of them it shows the music symbol in cover flow indicating that there is no album artwork. How do I fix this?

*Why is artwork not showing on my iPod when it's there in iTunes?*
iTunes will display a cover in many of it's views provided at least one track from the album has embedded artwork. The iPod appears to load only the artwork from track one to create the cover flow and album views which means that it can sometimes fail to display art for albums even when you can see the art in iTunes. Further, when tracks are played on the iPod, artwork is displayed if and only if it exisits in the currently playing track, so track one may show art while track two does not.
*How to find tracks without artwork*
To find all the tracks without artwork so that you can update them you can try http://www.stum.de/itunes-find-tracks-without-artwork/ for Windows or http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts13.php for Macs. If you're using Google or other FWSE to locate suitable images they should be jpg's and ideally square, 320x320 pixels or above and borderless to give the best results in the various menus. If you have artwork for some tracks of an album, but not others, select a track with artwork, right-click (Option-Click for Macs) on the art & click copy, then select all the tracks of the abum, use CTRL-I or Option-I to *Get Info* and then paste the image into the artwork box.
*Rebuild artwork cache*
Sometimes the artwork cache becomes corrupt and fails to show correct artwork, even when this is properly set up in iTunes. To rebuild the artwork cache, connect your iPod to iTunes. Locate the iPod in the Sources pane on the left-hand side, then select the Music tab. Remove the tick from *Display album artwork on your iPod*, sync the iPod, reselect the option & sync again.
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Album artwork not displaying for all albums in Coverflow view

Very interesting problem I'm having. All of my music has album artwork assigned to it and can clearly be seen in the preview pane at the bottom left of the iTunes window. However, not all the albums show up in the new Coverflow feature in iTunes 7. I've been trying to figure out what might be different about these images that would cause them to not show up. Also, the albums that don't show up in Coverflow view don't show up on my iPod nano either; all the other ones are fine though. Any ideas?
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I'm experiencing the same. It is funny, I can definitely not see something the displayed (or not displayed) graphics have in common. Some were fetched from the iTS, some bought from iTS, some fetched from other locations ...
At first I thought that it might be because of my old but brave little iBook, but if you see the same on an G4, this is probably not the reason.
My library is on an external hard drive connected via FireWire, and it is quite big (almost 15,000 tracks).
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I have an iPod Touch 4g and im running the newest version of iOS, 4.3.3, and the newest version of iTunes. Also running OS X Lion 10.7. The album artwork doesn't show up in vertical mode but does in Coverflow. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

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Ok I just got a 4th gen ipod nano and when I go into coverflow and they show the album artwork I cant get it to turn upright. I mean when i tilt it left it goes left sideways and tilt it right it goes rightsides but when I hold it upright it still stays on the side. My question is, is the coverflow albums not supposed to go straight upright and can only be viewed from the sides or does mine have a defect of somekind?

No to worry. All fixed.
"Have you tried turning it off and on again", "60% of the time, it works every time!"

Album Artwork revisited

Same old problem. How can you manually add a single image for the whole album (as iTunes does when downloading it from the iTMS) rather than simply embedding it in every track file?
AFAICT, the short answer is you can't, but I hope it will change.
However, I have found a partial solution.
When artwork cannot be downloaded from the iTMS or it is the incorrect image (a common problem), find the image you want to use (or make your own) and embed it (i.e. paste it into an artwork display box) into the FIRST track that is listed for that album (which may not be 1 if e.g. that is missing). Actually, it may work with ANY single track, I only tried it with the first track.
This artwork will now display as the artwork for the WHOLE album when you view the album in iTunes as CoverFlow, or the one that lists the tracks beside the artwork (middle option). The bottom left corner of the screen actually shows what is in the file however, so that will only show the image for the track into which you pasted it (unless it was an iTMS download, in which case it shows for all tracks, even though it is embedded in NONE of them).
So, for the most part, iTunes now has the capability to display the correct artwork for all tracks of any album for which it cannot be downloaded from iTMS, yet still only storing a single copy of that image and not wasting the space of duplicating the data in every track for that album.
So far, so good. It is worth noting also that the actual track mp3 files take on the icon of any embedded artwork, so those that are 'empty' will still show the generic MP3 icon. Unless of course you have been able to download the artwork from the iTMS, in which case the icons of all the tracks will be set to that image. Clever stuff since the actual image is stored entirely somewhere else.
Ok, so how does this work when syncing to the iPod and playing on an Apple TV?
Of course, correctly downloaded artwork from the iTMS shows up correctly all the time, for all tracks (for which the Album Artwork has been downloaded) and at first it looks like the alternative of simply adding an image to the first track has the same effect, but it's not all roses. But please remember, it's not the quality to which I am referring. It is WHERE the image data is stored - in a separate folder if it's downloaded from the iTMS, or embedded in the actual file if you added it manually.
On the Apple TV, select an artist and all the albums show their artwork, even those with it embedded in ONLY the one track. Play ANY track and the artwork displays as it should. You cannot tell the difference between Album Artwork downloaded from the iTMS and images you have pasted into a single track (maybe not the one you are playing).
On the iPod unfortunately it's a different story. Viewing the albums of any artist shows the correct artwork for each album, even those with it embedded in just the one track. The Beatles is a good test here since there's NO chance the artwork can have come from the iTMS. Play the first track of one of these albums and the artwork is displayed as it plays, jump to the next track and it's blank. Of course, my first tracks contained the embedded artwork so I guess the track that does display the artwork is the one that contains the image data.
The issue here is that the Apple TV is able to make the same association between tracks of the same album and hence display artwork embedded in a single track for ALL the tracks of that album as iTunes does. And it works as a good alternative when you cannot download Album Artwork from the iTMS. BUT, the iPOD fails to do this when you are playing the album. Do the programming teams not talk to each other?
So, embedding the artwork in a single track is currently a partial solution. Let's hope the iPod developers catch up, or even better if they provide the ability to manually add Album Artwork by the same method as if it were downloaded from the iTMS.
As always, if anyone knows how to manually add iTunes style Album Artwork, I'd be delighted to know.

Sorry if I wasn't entirely clear in my previous post. Storing the same artwork in EVERY file for the album, i.e. duplicating the same data multiple times, is simply not an acceptable solution. If you want to keep the music in sync with an iPod for example, it is important not to waste storage space. In fact it is my belief this is exactly why Apple devised their Album Artwork storage strategy.
One album should have ONE piece of artwork associated with it (or several if they're different), applicable to ALL tracks of that album. Anything else is dumb.

My album artwork will not display correctly on my iPod Touch

I have a 4th gen iPod Touch. Recently, I've noticed that a lot of my album artwork is displaying incorrectly in coverflow, and sometimes not at all. I can not figure out why this is happening, as the artwork displays fine in iTunes, and actually shows up in coverflow on the iPod occasionally. However, when I turn my iPod to portrait orientation, they disappear, turn upside down and perform various other acrobatic stunts.
Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance.

How are you adding the artwork to the songs?
You should try adding the artwork to the songs in iTunes first, not directly to the songs on the iPod (through iTunes).
If you add artwork directly to the iPod, the artwork is sometimes not displayed when playing songs.
See also: My artwork is missing.

Album Artwork doesn't display

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IOS 5 bug - album artwork takes huge amounts of space

I've upgraded both my iPhone 4 and my iPad 1 to iOS 5.
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Under iOS 5, both report over 1.5GB for "Other". By browsing around the phone with iExplorer, it seems that most of this is an enormous album art database file called MediaLibrary-artwork.data in the iTunes_Control\iTunes folder - this alone is over 1.5GB. There are no more than 200 albums on either device, all of which have artwork downloaded from the Apple Store rather than embedded in the files - say 200 x 250kb JPEGs; 50MB in total.
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Album artwork not getting on my iPod nano?!

I tried everything to get my artwork to show up on my iPod nano. I read every topic in the forums about it and I did what people said to do and it still isnt showing up. The album artwork shows up in iTunes but not on my iPod. Can anyone help me?

Cheers,
same here. I have downloaded artwork to iTunes and after that synced music to iPod (nano 4g) manually. But artwork doesn't show either when playing the music or in the coverflow. Don't even know whether the artwork was downloaded to iPod (is there a way to check this?) Seems to be so common problem, so hopefully Apple fixes this or gives instructions how to fix it.
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XP Pro and ATI users... Go to Start>Run type dxdiag. Go to the "Display" tab. Click "Test Direct 3D". If you get the following message "3D: Direct3D 7 test results: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x80004005 (Generic failure)" and a few other similar messages. Download and install the older 7.8 version of the ATI catalyst drivers from here;
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Album Artwork problems on iTunes

Please, I need some help here. Here's what I'm trying to to if possible.
I have many music videos that belong to a certain album (ex. Loose/Nelly Furtado - Say It Right, Promiscous, Maneater) so I would like to assign a general ALBUM ART for all the videos belonging to this album but I would also like to assign different ALBUM ART for each song. Is that possible on iTunes?
I have had problems with iTunes 7.4.2 as well. I cannot delete ARTWORK so it becomes clear. I hit "GET INFO" and under "ALBUM ARTWORK" I manually delete it then the Coverflow goes blank for a second and the same artwork is back there. I tried to delete whatever is under the iTunes folder but the same thing happens. Any ideas or just a buggy iTunes version.
Another thing... Coverflow for videos??? Mine doesn't show anything and it doesn't work horizontally.
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I tried the unsuncing and re-yncing trick - did not work for me either.   The album artwork would change, but most of the titles were still wrong.     What I finally had to do was unsync artwork, overwrite old backup with a new one (with app organization, contacts etc, saved, but nothing else)
Then restore to the factory settings by clicking restore in itunes -
After iOS reinstalls from scratch, restore to the backup of your apps and contacts you did before the OS restore.
Then try syncing just your playlists to validate, this worked for me.   After that I uploaded the rest of my albums and everything is cool now.
As for why this happens in the first place, it's likely a corrupting of the music or artwork database of sorts.   Before doing any of the restoration, look in your music directory and clean up any titles of artists with unicode characters, or underscores before the names.
I had one album with Japanese characters, and a few others that Itunes prefaces with underscores to avoid duplicate album or artist names.    I suspect somethign like that may play a role in the problem.

Don't wanna album artworks keep floating on the main menu

Is there any way to disable album artworks keep floating on the main menu of iPod classic?
I think Apple should give us a choice to disable this function with next iPod firmware update.
Some album artworks I don't want to show up there. And the key point is, the resolution of all my album artworks are 200 x 200. It is really enough for my 5G iPod video. But for my new iPod classic, all artworks would be force to enlarge the size for floating on the main menu like screensaver, and they look really crap.
And I think those new default icons on iPod classic are really nice and that's what I prefer to show

Given the resolution you've got them at, the other occurances of them in the UI - like CoverFlow and album art when a track is playing - also probably look not great.
Turn of the option of synching them completely via the Music tab for the iPod in iTunes. Gets rid of the issue completely - and as you say leaves more useful icons in some places.

High Quality Album Artwork.

I want to 'fill in the blanks' that iTunes has left for all of my album artwork. I tried using jpgs that I acquired from wherever over the Internet but they just don't look that great large.
I'd really like to get the same quality resolution pics that iTunes seems able to consistently acquire.
My question is; Where does iTunes get its album artwork from, where on my computer are these images stored and what typed of file are they? …so I guess I have a few questions!
Many thanks.

iTunes normally gets its artwork from the iTunes Store which normally provides 600x600 pixel size artwork. As a comparison, Windows Media Player gets its artwork from a Microsoft database with the data provided by various partners and it only gives you a pathetic 200x200 pixels (a ninth the resolution of the iTunes artwork).
Yes, Amazon is a good source, it provides typically 500x500 pixel artwork, but be warned, some of them also include a white border around the artwork which makes it look particularly bad in Coverflow. I find that Walmart is a good source as it also usually provides 500x500 pixels artwork but does not have the nasty white border.
And finally, as has already been indicated, as a last resort you could use Google Images to search for artwork, sometimes even higher resolution than 600x600 is available but really, anything higher is a waste of time (and space).

Getting Album Artwork for songs NOT in iTunes and ONLY on iPod

Hello
Am I missing something obvious here? I am struggling with the album artwork feature for use in the coverflow section of the iPod Classic 80GB. I do NOT keep all of my songs in iTunes as my laptop hard drive is just not big enough.
My problem is that highlighting the songs on my iPod once I've connected it to iTunes then selecting Get Album Artwork simply doesn't work. Only trawling through countless forums on various websites I've discovered that possibly the artwork is only updated for songs you have in the iTunes library or only for songs bought on iTunes. I have 1000s of CDs I've uploaded onto my iPod (surely lots of people do not keep their music in iTunes for the same reason as me - small hard drive?)
There MUST be a software fix for this problem that could be issued out? Or if not, somebody should come up with a fix on an independent website. By the way, all of my tracks on the iPod have had their info obtained from the Gracenotes system used through iTunes so not having matching info to iTunes cannot be a reason for the lack of artwork can it?
I'd love to hear a solution to this problem.
Thanks

My problem is that highlighting the songs on my iPod once I've connected it to iTunes then selecting Get Album Artwork simply doesn't work.
Correct. It's meant to access your iTunes library and add artwork from the iTunes store.
There MUST be a software fix for this problem that could be issued out?
Nothing that I know of because it's meant to work this way.
By the way, all of my tracks on the iPod have had their info obtained from the Gracenotes system used through iTunes so not having matching info to iTunes cannot be a reason for the lack of artwork can it?
No, because as I say, it's meant to add artwork in the iTunes library (although even this can sometimes be an issue if the album info obtained from Gracenote doesn't match what's in the iTunes store.)
If an iPod is set to manage the songs manually, then it's possible to add the artwork to the songs directly onto the iPod (when looking at them through iTunes) without adding it to the songs in iTunes. Just copy paste an album image from (say) Amazon into the artwork box in the bottom left corner when looking at the songs on your iPod through iTunes.
However, I have found that if you are adding artwork directly to the iPod via iTunes and not to songs in the library first of all, then some (or all) artwork may not display correctly.

Bazaar Album Artwork Issue

So I have a very strange album artwork issue with my iPhone 4. I've verified that the artwork is correct for the songs this is occurring with (each individual song, not the albums).
When I play certain songs (only certain ones) I get a mosaic of incorrect album artwork.
http://gallery.me.com/jsagurton#100012/Album%20Artwork&bgcolor=black
I've again verified that in iTunes the album artwork is correct, and even copied the correct album artwork file to my desktop and then changed the artwork for this particular song to the correct artwork and resynced the device, and the issue still happens.
The issue also happens in coverflow, if the song I'm playing has the weird album artwork. Once I scroll to another album though, the artwork goes back to the correct artwork in coverflow. Going back to the standard view brings back the incorrect artwork however.
What's even more bazaar about this, is the mosaic isn't always consistent. A bunch of songs do this, but have different album covers making up the mosaic, and I have nothing in iTunes with a mosaic of artwork like this.

I have the same problem and posted a request for help but no-one has replied with an answer. It annoys me greatly that APPLE will not assist and in fact want to charge me $29 to even look at the problem, when it is their buggy software that is at fault.
Looks like we are destined to be screwed by APPLE over this.

No album artwork in coverflow

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