Some album artwork mysteriously dissappears...

Yesterday out of nowhere album artwork on roughly half my library mysteriously vanished. I didn't make any changes, updates, etc. Is there an easy way to remedy this short of doing a google image search and manually putting everything back?
My iTunes library is stored on an external HD connected to an Airport Extreme, if that matters.

Ok, first you need to put it on your library..NOT YOUR IPOD ones and then delete all your ipod music and put your library ones onto it and that should solve it!

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