Q: iTunes not allowing me to change Album Artwork on individual ALAC tracks
Hello,
I have just noticed that iTunes appears to have changed the artwork on some CD's that I had ripped to ALAC. The artwork is not correct, but if I go and try to change the individual artwork (by going to get info>artwork>deleting the current artwork on the track>moving to the next track>then move back to the track>paste or add the correct art work> hit OK. I then go back to the track (get info> artwork) and the old artwork is still there.
I use iTunes 12.5.1.21 on a windows 10 laptop. I use iCloud and ITunes Match and Apple Music.
Hopefully someonecan give me a solution to fixing this.
Posted on Oct 2, 2016 12:19 PM
Art downloaded automatically from the iTunes store goes into the Album Artwork cache. When you manually add artwork to a track it will be embedded in the tag of the file. If iTunes cannot update the file then the edit won't take. I suspect that iTunes may use different security credentials for some file operations which might be why the edit to the compilation flag has taken but the artwork hasn't. The permissions fix should be applied to both the folders where the media is stored as well the library files if they are in a separate location. That said I'm not sure that it is possible to add SYSTEM to a remote share. You might need to check permissions carefully from the server end to make sure that your user account really does have full control over the folder in question and that nothing is marked as read-only.
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Posted on Oct 5, 2016 1:04 AM