When I auto-update, album artwork goes bye-bye

I have album artwork for all of my songs on my iTunes. If I upload the songs manually to my iPod, all the artwork shows up. Then if I add a song or two to the iTunes library and then choose auto update to update the iPod to match my music library, all the album artwork disappears. Does anyone know what is going on here??

Lee,
You need to have your computer connected to the Internet in order for it to find the track info for a CD - it accesses the online GraceNote database to match song profiles. Only if your music isn't already there (which is very unlikely) will it not come up with something.
For the album artwork, it is not contained on the CD itself. You need to search for it. Most people find it on Amazon.com. Click until you get to the big (~300x300) image, save it and edit it on your PC, then drag and drop it into the box in iTunes where it says "drop album artwork here".

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