.itc files. What are they?

Limnos,

They are definitely downloaded pic files. I say pic files, because instead of album artwork, they are actually small picture files of classical music composers pulled from various sites on the web. I use those for my classical music songs since it is almost impossible to find the actual album cover for a lot classical albums. Anyway, I guess my next question is what to do now? Basically, I have about 6 or 7 (I stopped throwing them in the trash when I saw that it wasn't just a few rogue files and noticed that there were many of them) sitting in my trash bin. When I flip through iTunes, I don't notice any albums without a picture "album cover", so all seems to be okay. However, when I search in the cache folder in album artwork in the iTunes music folder, I can definitely find some empty folders. Does the artwork still show up in iTunes because I haven't emptied the trash yet? Will it still show up even after I empty the trash, even though the folders where they came from are empty? The easy thing would be if I emptied the trash, the pictures in iTunes disappeared and then just downloading them again and placing them again. Is there a way to know where to replace them if I just pulled them out of the trash? That is what I can't figure out based on the names of the files. There doesn't seem to be any corresponding data in the file name as it would relate to the folder that it came from.

Well, there seems to be no easy solution, so I am just going to empty the Trash. I'm not too worried about it, as it really isn't anything that important. I just don't like having loose ends and not understanding things that I am doing is all.

When you embed a pic in an iTunes music file, is it embedded forever, or can you remove that bit of info from the mp3 or acc or whatever way you choose to burn?

I'm sure if you deleted it and just burned it again, that would do it, but how about just deleting the album artwork and then adding it again to them?

Thanks guys. It looks like this one is solved, in as much as it is going to be. It wasn't difficult to delete the artwork, because it is a classical music library, and I only had pictures of the main composers like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, etc. I deleted the artwork, and am now going to add them back, so very easy and no biggie.

Limnos, I am going to keep a separate folder with album artwork in it though for the future should I ever want to delete the tags and then re-add them later.

Another thing I thought of after was that I actually use a Time Capsule and basically could have just restored that folder to an earlier date, such as the day before and restored the folder as it was before I started dumping those files from their original locations. I will consider using the Time Capsule more in the future as well.

In any case, thanks to both you and Chris for all of your input.

Another thing you could do rather than store all of the album covers on your hard drive is utilize a site called albumartexchange.com. They have a really great selection of high res album cover art. I use them all the time and even scan some of my own that they don't have and upload them to their site. You should check it out.

I want to embed (and will continue to), but I just wanted to know if the embedding remains even after you delete artwork from a track? Is it there permanently forever, or can you remove it?