No longer can manually add artwork.

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Level 1

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No longer can manually add artwork.

Upgraded to 10.0, and now I lost some of my album artwork. So, I decided to manually add artwork like I have had to do in the past, but now it doesn't work.
In the 'Get Info' pane, 'Artwork' is grayed out.
In the 'Multiple Item Information' pane, I tried to add artwork there, but iTunes wouldn't take it.

Any ideas?

Mac Mini. iBook G4 14". iPod Mini (converted to 16gb.), Shuffle, iPod Video, Mac OS X (10.6.4), www.playoflightimages.com

Posted on Sep 5, 2010 5:41 AM

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Answer 1

Jolly Giant

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Sep 5, 2010 6:31 AM in response to Boise Jim

i just tried this:

(a) found an album without artwork in my library
(b) selected all tracks of album, right-click (or ctrl-click) and +get info+ to bring up +multiple item information+
(c) found album art by way of a google search
(d) copied image in safari and pasted image into artwork box in iTunes

now the album has artwork.

J GG

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Answer 2

lakeerie

Level 1

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Oct 1, 2010 11:34 AM in response to Boise Jim

Same problem here. TV show from apple store and ones I added are missing artwork. Was able to add some artwork to some TV shows but now I can't add any . Try running Disk permissions did a restart still nothing .

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Answer 3

Oct 7, 2010 8:26 AM in response to lakeerie

Hi All I have tried the technique by Jolly Giant above and I cannot get iTunes 10 to manually add artwork... What am I doing wrong ? 😟

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Answer 4

Oct 8, 2010 12:58 AM in response to Garry Westwell

NOW IT"S October and I have run into the same issue where in the past I was able to Click, Copy & paste Album Covers... Wonder if I buy a box of Lucky Charms that would change my luck??

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Answer 5

njg

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Nov 29, 2010 4:53 PM in response to RollZeppelin

I'm having the same problem. Manually adding art used to be simple, but now I can't seem to do it. I've followed some of the help suggestions in this forum and elsewhere, but they just don't work. Sometimes I can copy and paste the artwork into the window, but it won't "stay."

Let me know if you've found a solution. I keep thinking there must be some simple trick, some kind of "click" or particular way to save an art file that I'm missing.

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Answer 6

njg

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Feb 20, 2011 11:58 AM in response to njg

I posted on this topic last fall, and after another round of trying to solve the problem thought I'd see if anyone had a new solution. I experimented with the free, trial version of a program called TuneUp. It found a lot of the album covers I was looking for, and I was able to import the first one I tried. However, it did not work on any subsequent attempts, so it's back to the drawing board. Most of my problems are with what I consider to be compilation CDs, such as a Christmas album with each track by a different artist, or classical recordings built around a theme, such as music from a particular country, in which each track is likely to have a different composer and/or performer/conductor. Perhaps there is something about the way in which the data is compiled that makes it hard for iTunes to locate the artwork, or to "accept" the copy and paste command. However, I've also had problems getting artwork for albums that are all by one performer/composer.

Any new suggestions?

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Answer 7

Jun 8, 2011 8:24 AM in response to Boise Jim

Found a fix, even though it´s weird.

I could not paste cover art for some few AIFF tracks in itunes, others I could easily add

Tried to make a MP3 version of the track, added, cover art succesfully, deleted the MP3 track and cover art still was in my AIFF trac.

Weird but true ;=)

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Answer 8

Jul 23, 2011 7:47 PM in response to Kutten1303

Oh my goodness, this actually worked! Thanks a bunch for posting this.

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Answer 9

Nov 1, 2011 7:48 AM in response to Kutten1303

I have been having this problem too and it seems I just solved it.... iTunes is not letting me drag pictures, but if I double click on the empty artwork box, it lets me search my computer for an image and add it. Seems to work... don't know why drag doesn't work

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Answer 10

Jan 4, 2012 4:08 PM in response to Boise Jim

I have tried all of these techniques, to no avail. Why is this so difficult? Apple used to be wysiwyg and easy, not so anymore. Even a smalll thing like attaching artwork to my own tracks in iTunes now has to take hours or research in the user forums. This should be done in less than a minute! 😠

I have checked the permissions on the hard drives, the individual files, the actual JPG art that I'm trying to attach. I have full read-write privleges. Drag and drop doesn't work. Double clicking in the "Artwork" box and pointing to the file in the Finder doesn't work. Copy and paste doesn't work. saving the JPG as another format, then saving again as a JPG, doesn't work. Seriously.... can anybody fix this?

I did convert 4 of the 32 AIF tracks to mp3, then attached the JPG successfully, but when I deleted the mp3s, the artwork disapppeared from the AIF files as well. 😕

Mac Pro

OS 10.7.2

iTunes 10.5.2 (11)

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Answer 11

Jan 4, 2012 4:42 PM in response to brassandzin

The conversion trick only works if you don't delete the mp3. Just remove it from the iTunes library. Of course it's a ridiculous workaround and shouldn't be necessary, but at least it works.

My other problem with iTunes, namely why with some songs the lyrics will not stay, is still not solved...

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Answer 12

Jan 4, 2012 6:13 PM in response to Levina de Ruijter

iTunes, 10.5.2 (11), selected track with no artwork, found suitable artwork on Cover Hunt, dragged art to desktop, selected Artwork tab from Get Info, dragged and dropped artwork into folder, artwork appears in iTunes.

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Answer 13

Jan 4, 2012 6:38 PM in response to jamesfromyorktown

Yes, so does most of my artwork as well, but every so often there is a piece of artwork that for reasons I can't begin to fathom, simply won't stick. And it's for those images that I use the conversion trick.

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Answer 14

Jan 4, 2012 6:48 PM in response to jamesfromyorktown

I can't select Artwork tab when selecting multiple tracks. The Artwork tab only exists when a single track is selected. I still can't make it work. Still annoyed 😠.

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Answer 15

Jan 10, 2012 1:19 PM in response to Boise Jim

My problem was with my own AIFF files (i.e. not purchased in iTunes). Some of them I just couldn't attach art work to, so after much experimentation I have found this. I converted them to WAV (keeping the 44.1/16-bit "full fidelity" CD-quality settings), deleted the original AIFF files, then converted the files back to AIFF, keeping the same conversion settings, and viola! I could attach artwork. Pain in the butt? Yes. But it worked. 😉

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