Black Album Artwork from iTunes.

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Black Album Artwork from iTunes.

I just added quite a bit of music that i downloaded to my computer, onto iTunes. When I try to get the album art information from iTunes, all that comes up is black, its not the real album art, just a black picture. I know how to get the real album art onto the library through right-click>Get Info>Past art, but when i do this, it converts the music ID or something and takes forever. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Windows XP

Posted on Dec 19, 2008 11:05 PM

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turingtest2

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Dec 20, 2008 3:29 AM in response to G.Khan

I'd be tempted to force iTunes to rebuild the artwork cache. Close iTunes, open your iTunes folder, rename the *Album Artwork* folder, *Album Artwork (OLD)*, then restart iTunes. You should find that any artwork embeded in tracks displays properly. Scroll slowly through the library in grid mode to encourage iTunes to extract existing art. If all goes well delete the OLD artwork folder.

If you still have some black cover art (apart from the say the Spinal Tap or Metallica covers that are meant to be black), select all the affected tracks, Get info, and put a tick against the empty artwork box on the Info tab, then click OK.

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G.Khan Author

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Dec 20, 2008 5:25 PM in response to turingtest2

I tried your tips, and none of them fixed the problem. I know how to delete the black art. Is there ever a problem with the album art in the iTunes store? When i looked at the iTunes store, all of the art was also black. Is there a way to change the iTunes store problem (I have tried to delete and change the artwork cache/folder)?

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turingtest2

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Dec 20, 2008 6:40 PM in response to G.Khan

I think both iTunes and Windows Media Player occasionally fetch the wrong art but all black art also seems to be a separate issue which can affect them both. Given that you've already forced the artwork database to be rebuilt it must be a question of invalid art which you'll just have to work through manually.

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G.Khan Author

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Dec 22, 2008 12:51 PM in response to G.Khan

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

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Chris CA

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Dec 22, 2008 1:08 PM in response to G.Khan

Start -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove prgrams.
Select QuickTime and the select Repair.
Then reboot your machine.

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G.Khan Author

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Dec 22, 2008 1:55 PM in response to Chris CA

Thank you, this solved the iTunes album art problem.

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Answer 7

Dec 31, 2008 1:16 AM in response to G.Khan

yes many times, I have now 18000 songs, but still a few albums are black, despite I have tried "everything". Now I will try this bit of advice, and see what happen. If it works I report back if not I will not use more time on this for now..
Brgds
Knut Øivind
Norway

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