"Get Album Artwork" recently fails often to find artwork

I've found a solution!

1. Find the album you're looking for on the iTunes Store in iTunes.

2. Right click the artwork and select copy link.

3. Paste the link in Safari, I'm using Plaid – Scintilli as an example here:

http://itunes.apple.com/se/album/scintilli/id463989378

4. Right click the artwork on the website and select "Copy Image Address", you will get a link similar to this:

http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/086/Music/01/01/86/mzi.xxxswskr.170x170-75.jpg

This is the small album art, to get the large version replace 170x170 with 600x600 like this:

http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/086/Music/01/01/86/mzi.xxxswskr.600x600-75.jpg

Voila!

I've tried it for every album that iTunes couldn't find with "Get Album Artwork" and it worked flawlessly.

Please mark this as a correct answer, thanks!

Here is a simple solution...

1) in iTunes, View Albums

2) for the missing artworks open Google, Images, and type the name of the artist and album

3) navigate with Google to the appropriate image and "Save As" into the Mac Dropbox

4) once you've completed this for all the missing album artworks go back to iTunes

5) Viewing Albums, right click and "Get Info" on album

6) double cllick the empty image box on the lower right to associate the artwork -- navigate to the Dropbox and double-click the appropriate file.

7) once the artwork is associated, you can use Finder to go into the dropbox and delete the files you downloaded

Since upgrading to 10, I have lost about 1000 album covers. This is quite annoying since I was meticulous about obtaining the artwork using the "Get Album Artwork" feature. In the past, I only had difficulty with old (i.e. 1940's/1950's/1960's) or obscure music. Now, although all of the ID tag information is correct, it doesn't find much of anything (Def Leppard, Foreigner, The Grease Soundtrack, Seven Mary Three, Crosby Stills & Nash, etc )

The last two posts, although helpful, are not solutions. Those are work-arounds to the problem. I, too, have come up with work-arounds, using artwork from a combination of Google, Wikipedia, and RateYourMusic (the most reliable), but again, these are not solutions to the original problem. I'm pretty sure that Apple fixing whatever it is that they broke, is the only solution.

Rewozz's solution is terribly clever, because it proves that the artwork does exist on Apple's servers, but that there is something going wrong with the matching done by iTunes...

My method no longer works, it seems they've fixed it; iTunes can now find the artwork again!

Interesting. Going through all of my artwork, song by song (about 4,000 songs), I noticed something weird. On a lot of CDs that I had ripped to iTunes, the fourth song -- always the fourth song -- had nothing for artwork. It was blank. Weird. And also, many many of the CDs I had ripped had completely different artwork for the last few songs -- artwork swapped in at some point by iTunes. Again, weird.

When I recently bought a new cd (ripped through EAC), I kept on trying to retrieve the artwork to see if it would come available at some point. At first it couldn't be found (although the album was in the iTunes store), but after 3 weeks it was suddenly there. Tried it again with another new cd and again I was able to download it 3 weeks after the album's release date.

Does anyone else see this pattern also?

This process simply doesn't work for me. It has in the past, but not for the last year or two.

Pepole from Apple. Are you reading this. How to solve the problem. I have no plan to browse for atworks and manually add to my songs. It should works automaticaly,

Turn on Geunius under "Store" in the top nav menu. I was having the same problem and this fixed the issue for me! No album artwork missing now, but make sure your ID3 tags match those on the iTunes Store.