Trouble finding album art

find it strange that itunes can't find quite a bit of album art.

I find it particularly weird when you're staring at the album in the Store and you wonder what you're doing wrong that it can't find the album to give you its cover art. I'm having that problem right now with Madge's "Ray of Light". She's staring right at me in the Store but the art just won't download. I've tried retyping every field. Couple of other albums giving me fits too, but this one is particularly galling.

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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

I just installed iTunes 64 bit on my PC with Windows 7. I transfered my movies from my iPod Classic but no album art on any of them. I even try to find album art but nothing. I've downlaoded a couple of music albums onto same PC that I downloaded previously on iPad and they have art but not the videos I just transferred from iPod. I also can't play any of them on PC. I keep getting the no Quicktime message even though I downloaded QT. Any ideas?

I'm having the same problem, except I dont have itunes match enabled.
I synced my ipad and unchecked all my albums to remove them. Then I re-synced with the albums selected. They went back on WITH the artwork under 'artists' but then for some reason the next time I sync, some of the artwork under 'artists' is gone leaving only a music note for the cover.
It also has nothing to do with the cloud backup as I have experienced this with both backing up to the cloud and to my mac.
strange.......

Why is it that Itunes can't find album art for "North" by Elvis Costello and others

Why is it that from all the albums in my Library itunes can not find album art for:
"North" by Elvis Costello
"Viva la Vida" by Coldplay
and "Old Yellow Moon" by Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowel?

Earl,
For iTunes to find the art, it needs to match exactly on the Artist and Album Text. Minor issues like spacing or punctuation can prevent the match, as can a misspelling like "Crowel" for Crowell."
Look in the iTunes Store to get the exact text, fix the tags in the corresponding tracks, and then try again to "Get Album Artwork."
If that still fails, just grab the correct art off the web, and paste it into the Artwork tab.

ITunes not Finding Album Art (Which Does Exist)

For reasons that I have been unable to ascertain, iTunes cannot find album art for some albums that I have ripped. The art does exist on iTunes--I've done a search and checked. The song text matches; the album title appears to match; but iTunes politely informs me "Artwork could not be found."
This is not due to the fact that these are songs I have ripped myself; iTunes has found plenty of other album art for tunes I've ripped myself. Something else is going on. A couple of examples for folks to chew on:
Godzilla - Blue Öyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper: The Best Of Blue Öyster Cult
Mirror In The Bathroom - The English Beat - Beat This! The Best of the English Beat
Freeze-Frame - J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame
The Healer - John Lee Hooker - The Healer
There are plenty of others; that's just a sample. Any advice would be appreciated.
Doug
iPhone

Hello,
so there's no way of adding new covers to iTunes by drag and drop to the left bottom box??? I have to add the cover with +I only?
I've tried yesterday to add the covers with a simlpe drag and drop into the useful bottom-left box.... It didn't work... C'mon Apple!
It kinda *****...
PS: Adding covers via the new "import cover from apple store" fonction doesn't work as well. Youth bugs I presume
Macmini , ibook 12 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

What is the absolute best program for finding album art? [free]

I would love to have one of those free programs that automatically finds album art and lyrics, for mac or PC, but what is the best one?

This is for Windows, it's free, and pretty simple to use.
http://www.yvg.com/itunesartimporter.shtml

ITunes (iMac) can't find album art

So about a month ago I finally took the plunge and switched from PC to Mac. I have an iMac, running Mavericks, and itunes 11.
I also have a Time Capsule, and when I moved my itunes library from the PC I put it there, both so I wouldn't clutter up my new hard drive and also to allow it to be accessed by other devices. I've had some trouble getting itunes to use that location as its default, especially after a reboot.
Itunes has lost a lot of the album art that the PC had. I moved everything from my PC, including the album art, which was in its own folder in the itunes library. And anyway, this is all stuff that should be accessible on the online database, since that's where it came from originally. I didn't scan in any jpgs or anything. When I go and look in the album art file folder it's all just folders inside folders, and I don't actually see any files.
So, what's the deal? Is it confused because these cds were inported by a PC? The songs play fine. If I put in a cd will it grab the metadata without my having to re-import the whole thing? Not keen on doing that.
This isn't a disaster or anything, it's just annoying. It's easier to scan my album list when the cover art shows than when half the albums show a gray box.

When you changed the directory, did you (or iTunes) move the actually music files? If you see little exclamation points and fail to be able to play the music in iTunes, this is probably your problem. You cannot update disconnected files.
You may also want to assure you are logged in to the iTunes store and that you can view the store? Maybe you have a firewall program like Zone Alarm blocking access?
Did you change anything else on your machine or install other software since the last time you were able to get album art that might be causing the problem?

Can't Find Album Art (Music)

Last month, My Itunes can get album art from the itunes automatically when i click "Get Album art" or something like that.
But last week, I change the my music directory on windows(i really dont know if this is the cause of the problem) and now i cant get any album art. I tried searching but i cant seem to find the answer so i post my problem here.
I dont want to manually find an album art in Amazon or in any music store and put it there.
Cant anyone help me? by the way, im usign the latest version of itunes.
Thanks

When you changed the directory, did you (or iTunes) move the actually music files? If you see little exclamation points and fail to be able to play the music in iTunes, this is probably your problem. You cannot update disconnected files.
You may also want to assure you are logged in to the iTunes store and that you can view the store? Maybe you have a firewall program like Zone Alarm blocking access?
Did you change anything else on your machine or install other software since the last time you were able to get album art that might be causing the problem?

Cant Find Album Art?!!

I reformatted my computer and put all my songs back in itunes and did the get album art function and it found most of them but it says it cant find a few and they are some of the ones that it had before i reformatted. I have checked the info and its all the same as how it is listed in the itunes store and i have the latest version. Anyone know how to fix that? Thanks

sorry i kind of solved this myself after a bit of exploration in preview (i dont remember there being a crop option in preview for leopard)

Do we have to find Album art on our own.

When using Windows Media player I put a CD in It checks the ID3 Tags gets all the Songs names and the Album Art and puts it in the corner.
Why doesn't iTunes do this, it gets the names automatically But not the Album Art ***?
So far I've been adding album art per album
And I still Haven't seen a Simple Tutorial Online on How to Drag an Drop 1 Album Cover PIc and have iTunes see it for every Song of that Album, I've had to do this one song at a time.

Apple will only provide artwork for music you actually buy from them - otherwise they are opening a huge can of worms providing you artwork for a CD of your own.
I use Amazon.com, and drag and drop the album artwork from there to provide the artwork for my iTunes.
To update a whole album at a time, simply shift click all tracks of that album, then drag the artwork into iTunes - it updates all tracks with the album artwork.

Why can't iTunes find album art when it is showing in Media Player?

I am new to iTunes, having previously used windows media player. What a disappointment. The sooner Apple get back to being a niche plyer the better. In Windows media player, every one of my albums has the artwork on it. Import to iTunes the crock of **** can't find the artwork for 71 albums. Not just a handful, 71!!!
I had heard that iTunes doesn't like compilation albums from a friend, several years ago. No problem in media payer - but in the bag of **** that is iTunes, my compilation albums (shop bought CDs) are listed as separate albums i.e I have 20 albums all called "the best of New Wave"!!!
Finally before I sell my iPod back on to Ebay, I tried to import my MP3s to the Touch. Not enough room (I knew that) so opted to select which Albums I wanted. Now I have 250 albums, so do you think some overpaid ******* in Apple might have thought that folk would like to "select all" and then de-select the albums they didn't want? No...let's make it really irritating and get people to MANUALLY select each album, one by Fxxxing one. This really is the dark ages.
Finally, for some reason, some of my albums (again perfectly intact in Media Player) have been split into two. In Media Player you can drag tracks from one album onto another to create the whole album. Is this possible in iTunes? You know what, don't even bother answering, because I'm done with iTunes.

Deckard6 wrote:
You know what, don't even bother answering, because I'm done with iTunes.
Thanks for letting us know!
Goodbye...

How can I quickly get the same album art for all tracks on an album without manually doing them one at a time?

I am having trouble with album art linked to each track. My library is ripped from my own cd's and ITunes only provides some of the artwork from a find artwork search. The rest must be found and added one at a time manually from web. This process is tedious and time consuming for me. Is there a file in iTunes related to each album that I can just drop the art once and it shows up linked to all the tracks from that album when they play? I've tried selecting all songs from an album and dragging the artwork to the artwork window once in hopes of all tracks getting the artwork at the same time with no luck. Any advice for this paltry artwork dilemma would be appreciated. If Cassidy & Greene still owned this ******* child of SoundJam I know I would not be having this problem! HaHa...Thanks for any advice/help with this problem.

Thx 4 quick reply alexbird. Your method will work and after a little experimenting so will this: Just go to the album art view option and highlight the album you want artwork for. Drag the artwork from your album art web search page to bottom left hand album art window in iTunes and just drop it there. A small progress window then appears showing each album track adopting the dropped artwork one by one. It only takes 10-15 seconds for all of the tracks on your album to adopt the new artwork. I then went back and removed unwanted artwork(from the albums that had it) track by track from the get info menu. This goes pretty quick as you just pick track>get info>artwork>highlight art>delete>ok for each track.
This drag/drop to the album art view page has been the simplest and most effective way I have discovered to manually import album artwork into iTunes so far. Hope this helps someone else out there. Any other methods or suggestions to do this task added to this thread will be duly noted. Thx... Oh, I am currently using iTunes 10.5.1

But i like my ALBUM ART...

Hello all,
I've been having troubles adding album art to some of my songs. I tried right-clicking to get to song info to add pictures and dragging the picture to the picture box; however, neither of those techniques have worked! In short: I have a problem getting my album art to STAY. I've perused some threads regarding this topic, yet I did not find any information that solved this problem. If anyone has a solution to this please tell me.
Thanks,
Christina

You can edit the song information correct? Do you get any error messages?

Album art does not sync

So, after I updated to 1.1 I am having trouble with album art synching..
I only have DRM free MP3..
1. When Syncing: For certain albums, album art has ceased to sync, even tried to embed album art into mp3 with no luck. Files play OK, however..
2. The same songs that do not have album art when syncing, are not playable when streaming.
3. AppleTV has become unstable, after each sync, AppleTv will reset and ask again for TV resolution settings.
Anyone having the same issues?
Will turning back to 1.0 have the clock issue?

In respect of the album art have you tried the following:
1. Open itunes and select a troublesome tune/movie.
2. Choose file/show in Finder and note the location of the original file.
3. Delete the tune/movie from your itunes list (not in the finder) choose 'remove' and 'keep files' when prompted
4. Drag the original file from the Finder back to itunes.
Does this help
In regard to the unstable behaviour of the tv, how are you connected to the tv. Have you tried a restart as opposed to a full restore, which would mean going back to v 1.0 and updating to v 1.1 again.

Album art not showing consistently on iPhone *lockscreen*

iTunes occasionally has trouble with album art, especially after syncs or updates (album art disappearing, or being reshuffled to the wrong mp3s, etc.).
The current problem is different. Normally, with the iPhone's (iPod) music playing, the album art will replace the wallpaper on the lock screen. Lately, this feature has stopped being consistent. Some tracks will display album art on the lock screen, some won't. Those that won't, do have album art embedded (100% certain of this). In one instance, the album art displayed was a mishmash of two different albums' art (again, only on the lock screen). Editing the mp3s to reinsert the album art in iTunes, and then re-syncing, has not solved the problem.
This is probably an issue with how iTunes is handling/editing those mp3s affected, or it may be an iPhone bug. There's nothing outstanding about the specific tracks in question - in every other way they appear to be normal (write enabled, and album art showing in track info).
This problem only occurs @ the lock screen. In iPod view, and album view, display of the album art is normal for all tracks.
I have noticed this also happening with other audio sources (ie, third party audio streaming apps, which normally show some kind of album art @the lock screen).
Thanks for any feedback.

I too have been having this issue & I've read the articles, advices & other discussions, but none of them fixes this issue. I reboot & still see the wrong album art on the lock screen. It is very annoying especially when you have iTunes with software that was purchased to "automajically" present the correct album artwork. For those of us who actually precise about how our libraries are organized this is a big deal. You spends hours days in keeping things organized, just for the sync to not resemble the labor...
I have both the iPhone 4 & an iPod Touch 2nd gen. You'd think Apple would get stuff like this together before approving it for an update. No one can convince me different... Apple & Windows now both have the same MO! Get a new team of testers.

[iOS] Album art not showing for offline tracks

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Description:
It appears that on iOS some people are finding album art is not being displayed for offline tracks. This is predominately found with locally synced files but has affected some users with Spotify streamed content set as offline.
To reproduce:
Sync a playlist as offline and then play the track. No artwork is displayed
Workaround:
None
Additional information:
If you are having this issue, could you please let us know:
Model of device and iOS version
Whether the affected playlist contains only local files, a mixture or is all streaming only content
Any particular artists/tracks being affected
Format of the local file including encoder (if known)
Thanks!
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Issue exists for all Spotify content when synced to offline mode. iOS 8.1, iPhone 6 Plus 64gb, latest version of Spotify from the App store as of Nov 11, 2014. Synced content from computer also fails to display album artwork.

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