Unable to link some artwork

Question

I have some purchased music and some imported music from older CDs... nothing out of the ordinary... all mainstream kind of music with easy to find artwork.
I grabbed artwork from iTunes through the "Grab Info" and "Get Album Artwork" menu items. I did this for all my music by selecting all and some came through and most did not. Oddly enough about 20% of my iTunes purchased music (that previously had artwork) did not find artwork.
So, even though I'm easily able to find the specific song / album on iTunes that I want to pull artwork for, I'm not able to figure out how to close this gap. Is there a better way to do this manually or something?
Many thanks in advance for any help....
Message was edited by: dnse4

Answer 1

Erica,
It sounds like you may not realize that for CD's you add to iTunes yourself, you have to add the artwork yourself as well.
One way to do this is to find the album cover at a web site such as amazon.com. Save the artwork on your computer, a new folder called
i Album covers
might be helpful for this purpose.
Now it's time to get the artwork into iTunes. Select
b Library
in the
i Source List
and click on the
b Browse
icon in the top right corner of iTunes.
Now select the CD in the Browse pane and press the
b Ctrl
and
b I
keys at the sqame time.
After confirming that you want to edit information for multiple items, you will be taken to the
i Multiple Song Information
window. Double-click the large
b Artwork
box and then navigate to the image you downloaded from amazon.com and confirm that's the image you want.
You will now be able to view the artwork in iTunes by selecting Edit menu > Show Artwork and it should be on your iPod the next time you synch with iTunes.
I hope this is the answer to your problem. If not, post back.