Shared Album Art - iTunes 7

I have disabled iTunes from getting album art due to the issues it was having with Greatest Hits and replacing art that had already been collected (due to no album art before, now it wants to take over).
My question is with shared music. We have a PC in another location and share iTunes via the share preference. Prior to the upgrade, we were able to see the ablum art from the main PC or file location that was associated with the music file (i.e. the art I collected for each album). Now it shows Artwork not modifiable" on the shared music. Not a biggy as we can still listen to music, but an annoyance none the less.
All this time wishing for auto art and now I wish I did not select iTunes to get "missiing" when upgraded. More fool me...
iMac G5 Rev B / 20 / 1gig Ram / 250hd Mac OS X (10.4)

Not answered just resolved... Apple TV.

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iPhone and iTunes has at least two modes to display your music in that is:
* Song mode - where tune's art is pulled from the file if any exists.
* Album mode - where album art is shared by multiple tunes with the same "ALBUM NAME".
So if many of the songs has no ALBUM NAME at all or share something like Unknown etc. It's is likely that in Cover Flow Mode (Which is Album View) those will have some strange things displayed.
On the other hand I currently have slightly different problem hence my search. My Art is mixed up especially among the podcasts. Totally... I'll try full resync.
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carsokk wrote:
Is anyone else having this problem and is there a way to fix it?
It is not a problem in as much as it's the way it's supposed to work. Sharing has never included artwork. One assumes that it's to keep the amount of bandwidth used to a minimum. So, as it isn't technically broken, there is no way to fix it. Sorry.

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