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Sometimes when I add music to iTunes, converted from vinyl album or cassette, random artwork in the form of a document appears (e.g. a recipe from BBC Food). I have tried deleting the artwork and replacing it with appropriate album artwork from the internet but nothing changes and the original document image remains.
Has anyone had a similar problem and know of a solution a solution?
MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.14
See Managing apps with iTunes 12.7 or later - Apple Community. These are a legacy from earlier builds of iTunes that included features for downloading app in iTunes and reorganizing them on a connected device. Typically on a Mac management of books & PDFs has been moved from iTunes into the Books app. Quite why iTunes was using that thumbnail for unrelated content is a mystery but if you've managed to fix it then all is well.
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See Managing apps with iTunes 12.7 or later - Apple Community. These are a legacy from earlier builds of iTunes that included features for downloading app in iTunes and reorganizing them on a connected device. Typically on a Mac management of books & PDFs has been moved from iTunes into the Books app. Quite why iTunes was using that thumbnail for unrelated content is a mystery but if you've managed to fix it then all is well.
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Thanks for your suggestion, however before deleting the iTunes Album Artwork folder I thought I would try deleting the offending recipe file from "Books" (I actually converted it from a PDF to a word document and saved in "Documents").
This had the desired effect of showing the correct album cover in iTunes without any further intervention from me.
Before I decided on this course of action I had a look at the contents of the iTunes folder in Finder and noticed that one of the sub folders of iTunes Media was a folder called Mobile Applications which contained a number of "ipa" files one of which was "iBooks" which is not something I would have thought should open with iTunes. I don't know if this is related to the problem I had but it seems a strange relationship as do some of the other ipa files listed.
Once again thanks for your help.
I am using the original album title and artists name. For information I have managed to locate the origin of the document image which is a pdf saved in “Books”. Quite how it appears as artwork In iTunes I have no idea.
Hmm, not sure I trust iTunes to do this.
Is it possible the search the Album Artwork folder and delete the offending artwork, if it is obvious, as I can do without the recipe?
Alternatively would deleting the source file in "Books" work?
I will have a think about it but in the meantime where do I find the artwork folder?
The Album Artwork folder is inside the main iTunes folder that host your library. The layout is somewhat obtuse, but if you delete the whole thing then iTunes will rebuild it as it attempts to show artwork for items in your library.
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Are you adding a unique album title and album artist for each new album you create this way?
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How odd. You could potentially remove the entire Album Artwork folder which would force iTunes to rebuild its artwork cache.
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Artwork for music added to iTunes library
