iTunes duplicating artwork for same artist but different song.

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iTunes duplicating artwork for same artist but different song.

iTunes is automatically adding artwork to another song of the same artist in my library. I import artwork for one track of an artist and iTunes applies that artwork to all tracks by the same artist. This is silly. They are all singles and I want each track to have the proper artwork.

I have tried deleting the duplicated artwork and adding its own but that doesnt help. I tried restarting iTunes as well.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Feb 20, 2010 1:04 PM

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turingtest2

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Feb 20, 2010 1:57 PM in response to DJ Kaliber

Have you filled in the album field? iTunes will confuse albums with the same name or none. See my previous post on Grouping Tracks Into Albums for more info.

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DJ Kaliber Author

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Feb 20, 2010 2:33 PM in response to turingtest2

Thanks for your help but its doesnt really apply to me.

Let me try to be more clear. I have 100 SINGLES that I have in an album that I named "1980 Top 100". I do this because I have 1981, 82, 83, 84..and so on.

Within this album I have a few artist with 2 or 3 singles. iTunes is automatically adding the artwork for "Air Supply - All Out Of Love" to "Air Supply - Lost In Love". I should be able to add a different artwork for each single an artist has within this album. However, I cannot seem to force iTunes to use the artwork I want for a track of the same artist.

THE REASON I BELIEVE THIS CAN BE FIXED:

From those 2 tracks by Air Supply, they each are showing different artwork in their info. Coverflow seems to be grouping the artists.

EDIT: In another album Im getting this:
CoverFlow is not grouping the artist but it is using the same artwork for both even though they each have their own separate artwork in the info...

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turingtest2

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Feb 20, 2010 2:42 PM in response to DJ Kaliber

iTunes sees a set of tracks with the same Album title and Artist/Album Artist as belonging to a single album. You can embed different artwork into each track but this "album" will be displayed in grid and cover flow with the image of the first album in the library that it is made up from. I treat all my singles as short albums rather than trying to merge them as you have done so my cover flow is complete and consistent. I don't think there's much you can do to trick iTunes into working the way you want but I also suspect you don't want to exchange your virtual albums for playlists and individual singles.

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DJ Kaliber Author

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Feb 20, 2010 2:57 PM in response to turingtest2

These are within playlists. I do not mind using playlists at all. However, I have to have them tagged as an album because these are Top 100 for every year in the 80's. Meaning, the order is very important.
I think for simplicity and organization Ill ignore this as I rarely browse in CoverFlow anyway.

I thought for sure it was just a setting or something. Thank you for your time!

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