Upload Artwork to Gracenote?

I have musician friends who've published several professional CDs, but Gracenote doesn't have them listed yet. I'm adding track names in myself, but I can't see how to add artwork for the album covers so that others will receive it along with the tracks. No response from Gracenote itself.
Anybody know if I can upload cover art from the CD to Gracenote for the general public to receive?
Thanks.

Jeff--
Sorry, I realize Gracenote does not hold cover art,
but iTunes does. I assume Apple monitors this group???
Actually, these are user-to-user forums, and Apple doesn't monitor them from the standpoint of answering questions or getting feedback.
As for the artwork, the artwork is stored in the music file itself. That's why iTunes can't change the artwork on certain files, there's no mechanism for saving it in the file itself.
If you buy a track from the iTunes Music Store, the artwork is already loaded in the file by the record company or whoever sent the song file to the iTunes Music Store.
For songs taken off CD, iTunes currently doesn't have a way to automatically get artwork for tracks. The end user would have to have some kind of plug-in or script for that. Since Gracenote doesn't store the artwork, and it's not part of the CD itself, iTunes has no place to get the artwork.
charlie

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