Ipod album cover problem "An unknown error occurred (-50)

Hi William,

you are not the only one, i had exactly the same problem. Have you received any help yet ?

Tony

Windows XP

Hi William,

I am running on the same configuration as you and
I am having the same problem.
Scince some time all (?) my cover art has gone on the
Ipod video. They are still visible in Itunes, but fail to synch with Ipod.
Even after removing the flag - synchronizing - setting the flag - synchronizing...I am still getting
the unknown error (-50).

Did you solve the problem ?

Any hint really appreciated 🙂

Thanks,
Sven

Hi,

The exact same problem and checking/unchecking album artwork doesn't help. Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot.

Hi! same problem if u get an answer or something i would really appreciate it sharing with me =D thanx

My problem turned out to be that I was syncing images in iPhoto and one of them was a bitmap. I removed that, and the error went away. Check iPhoto and make sure no album art has bitmaps either.

Doug

Hi,
I had the same problem and after a search in google i found this:

Solution1
If you are getting the same error I was getting, then the solutions is a quite tedious one. You need to go through your entire library starting at the top.

First make sure the ablum art box in the bottom left of iTunes is set to "selected song" and not "now playing". Now highlight the first song at the top and use the down arrow and look at the album art for each song. I have 4000 songs in my library and I found maybe 3 or 4 album art glitches.

The glitches are those songs that show a blank white box for the album art. Don't mistake this for those songs that just have no art attached. These say "Drag album art here." When you find those few white boxes, simply right click the song and go to "get info" and then the artwork tab. Click the white blank and delete it. That's it.

After you do this you should be able to add artwork to your iPod without the error message. I hope this helps you out. -CK

Solution2
I have managed to fix this error. I have Windows 2000, but I think it should be OK for any Windows version.

1. Make sure iTunes is closed.
2. Move My Documents/My Music/iTunes/iTunes* (2 files, *.itl, and *.xml) to Desktop
3. Start up iTunes, it will create the two files above.
4. In iTunes: File :: Import...
5. Select .xml instead of text.
6. Select the iTunes Music Library.xml

ITunes stopped complaining.

Solution3
I had this error as well. Here's how I fixed it.

Apple itunes uses internet explorer (windows version) and therefore uses IE's proxy settings.

If you're behind a proxy you can change your settings to directly connect and then that may fix the problem. (I was using proximitron to filter ads, which went to my local fastnet web accellerator (dial up decompressor) which linked to a remote dialup comrpessor which actually got the internet sites).

Turning that off in IE's settigns (Tools, Options, Connections, Settings, uncheck use proxy) worked for me.


Solution2 worked fine for me 😀

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