Problems w/ artwork & ID3 tags

What up?
I have some albums that just won't allow me to add artwork for them. I did some research and apparently it's to do with my ID3 tags. I selected the songs went to the advanced menu or right clicked but the option 'convert ID3 tags' was not there, it simply didn't exist in the menu. Why would that be?
Another sympton my iTunes has been having is (with this same album) if I single click the song it will add to the song title, a 1-04 (the latter number depends on the track number I click.) Now why would all this be happening?

I selected the songs went to the advanced menu or right clicked but the option 'convert ID3 tags' was not there, it simply didn't exist in the menu. >Why would that be?
They are not MP3 files.
I have some albums that just won't allow me to add artwork for them
Likely they are WAV files. Also, teh files may be locked/Read Only or you do not have Read/Write perminssions to them.

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Hey guys its my first post here
I don't really have a problem relating to connectivity or anything major. But I do have a question.
When I drag and drop songs into my playlists in iTunes 6.01, I later re-edit the artsists name and album to my liking and have it shown exactly how it is on my iPod Nano. But the problem is the ID3 tags on the actual MP3 is also changed at the same time. Is there anyway to have iTunes not touch the ID3 tags on the mp3 itself after editing it thru iTunes?
I currently like the way I have the artists and album names all sorted out, but I just found out, it also edited my actual mp3 files, and thats not really good for me because I have the mp3 files according to an sfv file which checks CRC's..
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Is there anyway to have iTunes not touch the ID3 tags
on the mp3 itself after editing it thru iTunes?
No. When you edit the song info in iTunes, you are editing the file tags. That is a tag editor, not just a "iTunes Information" editor.
I currently like the way I have the artists and album
names all sorted out, but I just found out, it also
edited my actual mp3 files, and thats not really good
for me because I have the mp3 files according to an
sfv file which checks CRC's..
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Apple have this help, which I guess you will have seen:
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Hi Ed, thanks for responding so quickly. Yes, they are mp3 files, and yes, I had assumed what you told me, that changes made in iTunes would be made to the mp3 files. I also thought it could have something to do with read only, so I made sure that the files were not read only. But yes, strangely enough, even though the tags show up properly in iTunes, they do not show up properly in other players, and don't show up properly in iTunes if I remove the album, copy the album to the second drive, and load it back into iTunes (only for a portion of the files, but with the size of my collection this would still be time consuming to fix). I don't understand it either, but from research I have done online, it may have something to do with an iTunes glitch relating to the ID3 tag version.
Regardless of how it is supposed to work or what the explanation is, the situation now stands that my tags display perfectly in iTunes but are not all saved to the files perfectly. So I am hoping there is some way I can force iTunes to save the current state of tag info to the files!
About the 2 drives, it's simple. Right now my collection is on F:, and loaded into iTunes, but I want to get rid of that drive as it is IDE and too small, and store my collection on H: instead. I'm just really worried that after moving my collection and reloading into iTunes I will need to re-tag and re-load album artwork all over again. Any tips?

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It doesn't work. I'v already tried that. I'v even tried converting the id3 tags and then removing them from the libray and adding them again. Still nothing. It might help if someone could tell me where itunes gets it information for its tags when you add music to its libray seeing as it doesn't use id3 tags for the information like any smart program does.

Some songs won't add artwork so I need ID3 Tags but ID3 isn't in popup menu

When I Get Info on a track I get this menu but
there's nothing for Change ID3 tags. Should
there be or am I in the wrong place?

I assume adding artwork is a tag-affecting change - but I can't
add on this track - it just reverts to the black image.
I take it the tags themselves are hidden. I see no direct
editing options for them although I read than they can be
set to different types - and there are utilities available to
clean, fix, re-set, etc.
Ok, now I see your edit - this isn't an mp3, it's .aiff.
Message was edited by: Tom Meade1

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