No Cover Flow artwork

I'm experiencing a very strange issue. I've added new indie songs from mp3 blogs to my playlist and these songs usually include the album artwork as part of the mp3 file. So when you add the song to iTunes then album artwork automatically displays. The issue is that ever since upgrading to 7.7, while in Cover Flow mode the album art reverts to a previous album by the same artist and does not display the new art, but you can still see the new album art in viewer on the bottom left.
Any suggestions?

I have pretty much the same problem. I was able to change the album artwork in "Get Info". The correct art shows in the "Now Playing Window", but the Cover Flow artwork wont change. I've been successful in changing the Cover Flow artwork using the "Get Info" change method in the past, but this is the first time I've tried it since the latest iTunes update...maybe there's a bug needs squashing.

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Ablo,
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You are correct in your first post when you say you were able to replace the poster frame (or empty artwork) with specific artwork that you have designed to represent the content using the Get Info panel in iTunes. You are also correct when you specify this needs to be done prior to uploading your content to iTunes U.
Have you checked the Track Preferences within your iTunes U site? There you will find the option to "Override with Course Page image" if this is set, then it's the reason you are not able to see the artwork that you have just uploaded. A better preference is "If empty, use course page image." When this is set your specific track artwork will be used but in instance where none is present, iTunes U will use the course page image.

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I posted this on installing and updating iTunes, but maybe thats not the best place for it. So i'll try it here.
So I updated to 7.3 everything went fine. But after opening it I see that my "local" artwork "the artwork I added myself" was no longer showing up in cover flow. But the artwork that is downloaded by iTunes does. Also the artwork that I added shows up in the mini artwork thing... Apple + G just not in cover flow..
So I thought I would just start over, trashed all of iTunes prefs the iTunes music folder. Started adding all of my music back with new playlists but its doing the same thing.
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I think I know why, but don't know what to do about it...
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I'm a little impatient and haven't searched through most of the posts to see if this problem has been addressed already. But it's an unusual one (I think).
I got the 160GB iPod and have been able to upload all my music successfully, as well as getting all the cover flow artwork to run smoothly. But now I've been noticing some strange things. When I got a new CD, for example M.I.A.'s 'Kala', I uploaded it onto my iTunes library, and it fell into place nicely next to her other album 'Arular'. But after uploading the new track to my iPod, I can't find 'Kala' next to 'Arular' in cover flow - instead it's way at the end, past the number and symbol titled artists. This was also true for another CD that I recently uploaded, and even more strangely, for some older single tracks that I haven't even listened to yet.
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I've been adding a collection of tv series I have on DVD to iTunes 9.1.1, it all worked fine initially, I opened each video up of a series of tv programs and used the "Set Poster Frame" option to capture a frame of the program to use as the artwork for that program.
I normally have the programs sorted by what tv program they belong to, so Cover flow only displays the first episode of a series' artwork. I'm not sure why though but something I did yesterday appears to have caused cover flow to blow a fuse.
If I chose to sort by name before, cover flow would display all the artwork for each episode, and it showed all the different artworks correctly. Now though after some fiddling I did which I cannot seem to recount my steps back to, it only displays the same two pieces of artwork from two particular episodes for all the videos when it is sorted via name:
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/3052/tvprogcoverflow.png
I've tried removing all the artwork, but there doesn't seem to be an option to delete the poster frame and the poster frame artwork doesn't show up under the artwork tab for the individual videos so I can't delete anything from there. If I select all the videos and then right click and get info, then select the artwork check box and click OK it seemingly deletes all the artwork... Then replaces it again with the exact same artwork!
Although cover flow shows each video has having the same artwork if I Get Info each video it clearly shows it having the correct artwork so why cover flow is messing around like this I don't know.
I've tried deleting the album artwork cache in the itunes folder, didn't work. I even tried deleting my entire itunes folder which I have separate from my library and the hidden prefs file in my actual library, but that didn't work either.
Interestingly enough, if I re-add all the videos they automatically get listed as films and go under the film tab. When looking at them under their cover flow correctly shows every episode with the right artwork:
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8234/filmcoverflow.png
As soon as I change the Get Info options tab from Film to TV program either for one video or all of them, then cover flow screws up again.
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The weird thing is, it worked before. I encoded all the videos previously and had them all listed and didn't encounter this problem, but I noticed I'd forgotten to decomb/detelecine the videos so I deleted everything and re-encoded it all. AFter filling the tags out and setting poster frames again I was thinking of making life easier by just pasting the same artwork for every episode, so I did, but didn't like the results so I deleted it again (I selected every video, used Get Info and pasted the artwork that way).
I think it was after this that the problem started to occur. In any case I've been through every episode and made sure the name, series, episode and episode id fields are all filled in with incremental values and they are. I even made sure the Sort Name field was filled in on every video. But this didn't work either.
So, thinking another restart was needed I deleted every video again. Re-encoded them all, again. Set the tags for every video and poster frame again. Finished it all off nicely, checked cover flow and was highly annoyed to find it was STILL showing the same two pieces of art work for every video as shown in that image I posted.
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