Problems With Showing Album Artwork On The ipod

I tried to look in the support pages, everywhere, and i asked here, but it didn't help.
my ipod wont show album artworks.
when i try:
Edit-Preferences-ipod-music
and mark the 'Display album artwork on your ipod',
and then OK, it shows me an error window:
'The ipod cannot be updated. An unknown error occurred (-50).'
I don't know what to do, please help me.
I have an ipod nano 4GB
and a PC computer, Windows XP,
if that can help you...
Thanks alot.

I found the problem.
You have to display the album artwork in your itunes
library before you transform the song to the ipod.
Then, it will show.
thanks for helping .
Ella L, can you elaborate on what you mean (and the steps to take) because I've got the same error message as you had and now some tracks show album artwork, some don't, some show the wrong ones, etc.
Thanks.

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