Strange re-arranging of my album art

I can't figure this one. For some reason, a significant minority of the album artwork on my iPod has been re-assigned to other songs. Not all of it--some of them are still right, and the albums that are wrong are ALL wrong--they're not all the same, but they're all wrong. The album artwork in iTunes is still correct, just on my iPod. I was hoping there was a way to fix this without formatting the iPod, because my old Powerbook doesn't have USB 2.0, and it would take all day.
Any suggestions?

if you get Anapod explorer, and go to options, then find the maintenance section, click "fix mislabeled tracks" and this will fix it

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ok i had some albums with album art working perfectly on my zen v plus, now for some strange reason they stopped showing album art... i didnt change tags or convert files in anyway. These are the same files as before but now no album art is displayed. what happened? what can i do?
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Message Edited by Xymith on 0-09-2006 0:06 AM

i have a weired problem with my zen v plus also recently.
the tracks that i newly imported into my player cannot display album art, but the tracks that i imported before the problem happened stil can view album art. i try the drag and drop method with media explorer but no image pasted on it.
i have also tried to delete the exsiting track that can display album art and import again, but the result is the album cannot be displayed.
i always use media sourse to edit album art for my track and it worked perfectly until the problem occur.
i have also tried email support but the technician also give up on the problem.
is it the player's problem or the software problem?
does anyone know how to solve this prroblem?

Album Art + Strange Comment

I've been having a problem with itunes the past few days and wondered if anyone could help. I have Windows Vista and Itunes 8. My album art has been rapidly dissapearing and instead I get strange comments in the comment box somewhere along the line of: 00050250 0002560000 02000000. And if add the album art on a song, these comments appear as well. It seems when I change a song it screws the comments up. This has just happened the past few days.
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There are about 10 other threads on this here on discussions. Nobody has ever gotten a definite answer what caused it.
Most of my artwork was still OK, because I converted all my tracks to use ID3 v2.3 tags.
I was able to reproduce the problem you mention by checking Sound Check in the preferences. And fix it by unchecking.
When I unchecked and started fresh, the comments problem went away (on iTunes 8.0.0.35). I have detailed steps if anybody is interested.
As I was having so much fun with the comment problem, a worse one surfaced right after. *iTunes does not seem to write to the proper ID3v2 COMM field anymore!* Can anybody try the following:
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I have an iPad and an iPhone. Both get music from the same source. Both take the tracks from my computer's library, downsize them to 128kps and there we are. However, the on-device Art Database sizes are very different and not in the way that makes sense. The size of the DB files was gathered using iPhone Explorer.
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I used ScareZebra's solution (iFunBox for mac) and it worked great to FINALLY fix this issue. My library artwork was totally messed up, using mostly video image stills and other photos for album art and no amount of deleting or resyncing was working.
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1.) Installed ifunbox for mac on my computer and launched
2.) Plugged in iphone and navigated to RAW FILE SYSTEM/iTunes_Control/iTunes folder
3.) Copied the following 3 files to my desktop (for backup, just in case), then DELETED from the phone: MediaLibrary.sqlitedb, MediaLibrary.sqlitedb-shm, MediaLibrary.sqlitedb-wal
*4.) Copied the contents of the ARTWORK folder to my desktop for backup (just in case) then DELETED from the phone - Left the empty folder there
*5.) Turned iphone OFF and then ON
This worked and everything is back to normal. I haven't noticed any issues.
Thanks for figuring this out ScareZebra!
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Hi,
I have the latest version of iTunes for Windows and I have never noticed this before on a previous version, but when I try to add album art to most (over 90%) of songs, the addition won't stay if I select another song.
Even worse, if I try to add art while the song is playing, not only will the addition dissappear, the song corrupts in the process. It's as if the jpeg file is inserted into the audio data itself, as the song will grow by a number of seconds (the growth consists of skips and repeats.)
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Use the SHIFT-Launch iTunes method to get iTunes waiting for a library. Stick the iPod in disk mode and connect to the computer. Browse *My Computer* and right-click on the drive for the iPod, click Properties, then click Tools. Under Error-checking, click *Check Now*. Under Check disk options, select *Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors* (Optional - takes ages but a good idea if you've reason to suspect physical damage). Click Start. Mac users should run *Disk Utility / Repair Disk* for the equivalent process. This should find and correct any errors in the logical & physical structures of your iPod's hard drive which may be causing the problem. When the process is complete disconnect the iPod and then reset it (hold Menu+Select ). Cancel the waiting iTunes dialog and then try to connect in the normal way.
If that still doesn't work you could try Erase your iPod - The Super Fix for most iPod Problems. Basically a low level format of the iPod’s hard drive to get around whatever problems are stopping iTunes from working with it.
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Album Art is making me crazy! Won't stay attached in iPod but ok in iTunes!

1.Some of my Album Art is imported from iTunes, some is copied / pasted from internet since I can't get it from "Import Art" from iTunes. I also use an external hard drive to store my iTunes on. iTunes plays fine, and in iTunes, all my album art is displayed. However, several albums (only about 10 out of over 1000) show no album art at all in my iPod(s). I download it again, drag it into the window where you drop artwork and it seems fine in iTunes but again will not show up in my iPod. The image is fine as it shows in iTunes and is the same size as all my other image files I have used.
I have even deleted all the art from each individual track in iTunes which had missing art and reloaded it - same thing. This is making me nuts! Any ideas? I'm a very anal person and I want art on every track/album.
This happens on my new iPod classic 80G w/video as well as an older iPod classic which doesn't support cover flow but still shows album art.
2.On an even weirder note, if I eject/disconnect my external drive to use my laptop, when I reconnect, most of my album art is gone in iTunes. However, if I use the cover flow view to locate the albums with no art, when I get to them I press enter to play the first (or any) song on the album and as soon as it starts to play, the art comes back and then stays! This is very strange. Almost as if iTunes forgot where the art is but playing the song somehow reunites it. I don't get it.

For #1, the iPod's Artwork cache does get corrupted when making frequent changes. In the iPod's Music preferences tab in iTunes, remove the check beside "Display album artwork on your iPod" and select Apply.
Once the iPod has finished syncing, recheck it and hit Apply again. iTunes should recreate the artwork cache and re-sync it to your iPod.
For #2, are you running the itunes database (it has an ITL extension) from the exHD ? Or from the default location on your C: drive. The downloaded artwork from the itunes store goes into a folder named Album Artwork, and that is created in the same folder as the ITL file.
Not sure if this is it, since I embed the artwork in all my files.

I transfered videos from iPod to iTunes on Windows 7 PC but album art won't show up, even when I choose to find album art

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I'm having the same problem, except I dont have itunes match enabled.
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SiMooew469: Thank you! After countless wasted hours messing with this, your solution was the only one that worked! After setting up a few phones "as new" I noticed all the artist images would appear (for those that have one) even with my Match turned on. I could not duplicate it on my restored-from-backup iPhone5S, as I would get a mix of the images and album art, even for those artists that have profile photos on the as-new setups. I couldn't afford to lose all my text messages, etc. that come with restoring a phone as-new, so I tried about everything else under the sun: I tried logging in-and-out of my Apple ID, toggling Match on-and-off, I even deleted iTunes_control folder using iExplorer on a Windows machine. Nothing worked.
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If you don't have it set this way already, toggle "Group By Album Artist" in Settings->Music. For some reason that makes a difference for some artists in your library that appear when album artist is set to "Various Artists" or something other than the track's artist. Logout of your Apple ID. Log in with any other Apple ID. Open the Music app and watch all the artist images load in the Artisits tab. Once it is done, logout of the other Apple ID and login with your regular Apple ID. Finally, all the artist images will remain. Those artists that do not have a profile photo with iTunes will still show album art, which is by design. Hopefully Apple will keep updating that database.
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Small and big album art not matching

I bought an 5G iPod only ten days or so ago, and I have recently finished to transfer all my song database.
I'm seeing something strange happens with the album art. Sometimes I take a look on the screen, and it correctly displays the song info: artist, album, song title and also the small album pic are OK. But when I push the central button to see the enlarged album art, sometimes the album picture I see belongs to a different artist or album that I also have in my library. It also happens the other way around, i.e, if I display the big album pic and then I switch to the artist/title screen.
Does anyone know how can I fix this and why does it happen?
Thanks in advance
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yeah mine too, and i've tried re-setting it, and wiping it and re-sync ing etc,
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I've come across a strange problem and was hoping someone could help. Any help is much appreciated.
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Thanks but still no luck I'm afraid.
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Just wanted to share this. I have had the problem many have had where artwork displays in itunes but shows up as blank in the iphone. The fix (v 3GS) was to in itunes, select all the songs of the affected album, right click to get info. When the dialog appears, check only the art box, cut and paste the artwork in the box. Itunes then rebuilds the songs with the art, and the next sync pushes the changes to the phone.
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Got direction from this forum. Hope this is useful to someone....

Although this discussion is a bit old I think it's still worth answering it as google points to this page.
The only reason for the above to happen (Different cover art appearing in horizontal and vertical) I can think of is that Iphone Cover Flow is an Album Art only.
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.
BTW. If you got the Art in one way or another but after uploading the tunes to iPhone you don't see it it's likely that you downloaded Art only for one of them and iTunes is showing that one for all that share the album name. If you get the art from iTunes Store then Highlight all tunes that should contain the art and right-click>Get Album Artwork, otherwise Get Info and double-click on the Artwork field on the right-hand side.

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Where (is there) is the option to display the album art on your iPod with Windows7?
I've installed iTunes 9 and I have a 1st Gen. Nano. I've had zero problems until I loaded my Nano using my new Windows7 machine. In the past (using XP) there was an option (I think it was on the main screen in options or in the Edit> Preferences), but at the moment I only have options to Enable Disc Use, Manually Manage Music, Sync, and Open iTunes when the iPod is attached. Nothing for displaying the Album Art on my iPod.
Does someone know where the option to display Album Art on the ipod is using Windows7 & iTunes9?
Thanks

Yeah I had a feeling that was the case, that's crap. Like many people on this forum the contents of my iTunes library are very detailed. Not only do I have the album art for all of my tracks I make sure it's the correct edition of the artwork in the case of reissues.
I'm still not getting the artwork on my 1st Gen. Nano despite it being in my iTunes library, do I have to use the Sync function to have that feature? When I add tracks to my iPod it pauses and reads 'Syncing Do Not Disconnect' yet after it's finished and I disconnect the device, no artwork! It's really strange as I keep my music on an external hard drive, when I got my new Windows7 machine all I did was install iTunes, select the proper drive and folder, then drag my files in from my old drive, nothing changed and I was getting that artwork on my prior XP machine.
Any theories? I'd hate to loose the album art feature.
Thanks again

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Hi
My wife has just bought a 6Gb Zen MX, I've had a standard 8Gb Zen for over a year and haven't had any problems. To put some music on the MX we copied my music library onto her pc, got Windows Media Player to recognise the directories and then synched with the MX.
The music has loaded fine, but virtually all of the albums are missing the album art. The only ones that have album art are those that I've manually updated in media player because the image that it found automatically was wrong.
I've upgraded the MX to the latest firmware and re-synched - no difference.
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Edited for spelling - 4:45
Message Edited by LankyIanB on 07-6-2009 02:45 [email protected]

? An update on the album art....
There are definitely some differences between the Zen and the Zen MX....
Windows media player as standard stores the album art on the folder (directory) that contains the album tracks. The old Zen was quite happy with this arrangement.
If in media player, you update the album art by copying and pasting an image (say from a well known on-line retailer of music etc) it not only updates the image on the folder but it also adds the image to each track within the folder as MP3 tag info. The Zen MX needs this to display album art.
I spent a fun evening deleting all the albums from the Zen MX (can't find a way to get it to format). Updating every album in the music library with new album art and then re-synching. I think there are 4 albums out of about 50 that it's not displaying album art for which is close enough for me....
Playlists next - might just give up and do them manually on the [email protected]

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