TS1815 unable to download album artwork

I am re-organising my cd collection and copying to my new desktop using itunes, however, I could not download any album artwork for all the albums (over 450) which I brought (mostly from Hong Kong). I have authorised three computers using the same apple id. When I tried to get album artwork it shown processing album artwork but when end nothing had happened. Can anyone help? I am using window 7 and latest itune version.
Thanks.
Peter

If you can't use iTunes to get artwork you can get it from various other sources and add it manually. I find this site is a good source of artwork:
CD/Album Cover Art Search from SlothRadio.
iTunes 7 for Windows - Adding artwork to songs and other items
Another place for finding suitable artwork is to go to Amazon. You can also locate artwork using Google image search and put the artist or album name. Locate the album from any of those sources, right click on the image and save it to the desktop, once it's there drag it to the iTunes artwork pane. Once you've added the artwork you can either delete the original file or keep it in a folder somewhere in case you need to use it again. Alternatively there are programs like these that help locate artwork: iTunes Art Importer or MP3 Tag
If you have a scanner you can create your own artwork files by scanning the CD cover itself, this is particularly useful when you are dealing with rare recordings.

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