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When I CRTL click on the small preview of the album cover. It used to display the large album cover. It is showing a blank (transparent) square but no album cover. How can I fix this? I'm running iTunes 12.12.3.5 on a Windows PC (Windows 10 PC, version19044.1586).
Windows, Windows 10
I have some scripts that can potentially help with saving any of your current artwork. The scripts have slightly different functions:
CreateFolderArt ensures that every album folder ends up with a Folder.jpg image which is the art that iTunes already knows about. Side effects are that if artwork has been updated in iTunes the folder art should be updated also, and if any track from the album doesn't have embedded artwork it gets embedded.
EmbedFolderArt was actually written for someone who already had various artwork images stored in the album folders and wanted them added to their tracks, but not if iTunes had already downloaded a better quality image. It creates new files of any store art with the name iTunesArt.jpg, then embeds the largest image by area in the album's folder, based on the premise that this is likely to be the best image.
EmbediTunesArt is an alternative for when your library might have tracks from different albums in the same folder. It creates a new folder called Artwork in the same location as the script and saves any images it finds in the form <Album Artist> - <Album>.<Ext>
And yes, you could simply rename existing Album Artwork folder to say Album Artwork (Old) and see if rebuilding the cache helps. If it doesn't delete the new folder and rename the old one to restore it.
tt2
I have some scripts that can potentially help with saving any of your current artwork. The scripts have slightly different functions:
CreateFolderArt ensures that every album folder ends up with a Folder.jpg image which is the art that iTunes already knows about. Side effects are that if artwork has been updated in iTunes the folder art should be updated also, and if any track from the album doesn't have embedded artwork it gets embedded.
EmbedFolderArt was actually written for someone who already had various artwork images stored in the album folders and wanted them added to their tracks, but not if iTunes had already downloaded a better quality image. It creates new files of any store art with the name iTunesArt.jpg, then embeds the largest image by area in the album's folder, based on the premise that this is likely to be the best image.
EmbediTunesArt is an alternative for when your library might have tracks from different albums in the same folder. It creates a new folder called Artwork in the same location as the script and saves any images it finds in the form <Album Artist> - <Album>.<Ext>
And yes, you could simply rename existing Album Artwork folder to say Album Artwork (Old) and see if rebuilding the cache helps. If it doesn't delete the new folder and rename the old one to restore it.
tt2
After deleting the Album Artwork folder you can scroll through your library in the albums view. All embedded artwork will be added back to the cache. Where artwork isn't embedded iTunes will attempt to fetch data from the store provided that option has been enabled in preferences.
tt2
Is that related to the File/Library/Get Album Artwork? When I've done that it has changed album covers to one that I have placed myself.
Do you think I can save that Album Artwork folder, under a new name and/or different location, try your method and then if I don't like the outcome replace it back?
You may need to delete the Album Artwork folder in your iTunes folder to force iTunes to reconstruct its artwork cache.
tt2
If I do that wouldn't I lose all my artwork that I brought in to my liking?
Large album cover not displaying
