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I got a new computer, told it library was on external hd, no problem. A lot of artwork was missing though (NOT manual artwork, only previous artwork I'd asked itunes to find). I ran 'get artwork' but it's only asigned artwork to the1st song in each album

So, I got a new computer. As my itunes library has gone through a few in its time, it lives permanently on my external hard drive, as this generally makes moving to new computers hassle free. I told my freshly intsalled itunes on my new computer where to find the library and it got all my songs, movies etc no problem. However, some albums were missing artwork (NOT any of the albums I had ever manually added artwork to, thank god, these all seemed to be intact, jut ones where itunes had previously got artwork for me). I asked itunes to get missing artwork, as is par for the course. This it did, but it has only installed artwork for one song per album (generally the first song, or the lowest numbered track for incomplete albums, as far as I can tell).

It does not acknowledge these songs as missing artwork when I create a smart playlist but, erm, they are - the artwork doesn't show up on the display in the bottom LH corner or in the info tab. WHY? When I've added new albums 'get artwork' has always added artwork for EACH song on the album in every previous itunes I've ever had. I don't get it at all.

I appreciate it might be irreperably messed up, but please don't reply with any manual adding solutions. I have over 25,000 songs in my library and to go through and manually ask itunes to add artwork to each song (apart from the first on the album which already has it) would take SO LONG it makes me want to die inside.

I can't find anything else on this. Other people have had issues with itunes match and devices, but these songs don't even have artwork on itunes, let alone on my ipod, iphone etc.

Posted on May 13, 2012 4:49 PM

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turingtest2

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Posted on May 13, 2012 5:42 PM

Use my script CreateFolderArt to embed artwork into each track from the one downloaded file.

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turingtest2

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May 15, 2012 7:05 AM in response to Pouxin

Thanks. In that case, I'll plump for a different permissions issue. Might also explain why iTunes was reluctant to do certain updates by itself.

Right-click on your main iTunes folder and click Properties, then go to the Security tab and click Advanced. If necessary grant your account and SYSTEM full control of this folder, subfolders and files, then tick the option to replace permissions on child objects which will repair permissions throughout the library. This is the XP dialog but Windows 7 shouldn't be too different.

If it won't let you change the permissions use the Owner tab to take ownneship from an account with administror privileges.

Or there could be yet another factor involved... 😕

tt2

Pouxin Author

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May 15, 2012 9:41 AM in response to turingtest2

I *think* I've done this, although the set up was a little different - still the same problem.

Also, although I keep giving myself the 'child objects' permission (and a little tab comes up asking me if I'm sure I want to), when I go out and then click back into properties the box seems to be unticked again. GRRR!

turingtest2

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May 15, 2012 10:21 AM in response to Pouxin

The "Replace permission entries..." box is expected to be cleared each time you view that dialog. When you tick it and press OK you're then telling the OS to reset the permissions on every file and folder inside the one you're working with. That should be a one time repair.

The fact that you still get that error might be bringing us full circle. Maybe iTunes thinks some of the files have images, but they don't, which is why it doesn't bother to fetch new art for them. Because iTunes thinks there is an image my script will attempt to archive it for the purpose of copying it back in, and will fail because there isn't an image to export.

This bug hunting lark is all so much easier when can you test out a new bit of code every couple of mintues, and add in all extra reports just before the failure.

I shall leave you to get on with fixing up your artwork and take what I've learnt for the next time.

tt2

Pouxin Author

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May 17, 2012 2:29 AM in response to turingtest2

Thanks so much for all your help. Although still a tedious task, I'm very grateful that I have a script to tell me which art needs my attention and don't have to do it all by eye, which would have taken me, like, WEEKS! So thanks very much :-)

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I got a new computer, told it library was on external hd, no problem. A lot of artwork was missing though (NOT manual artwork, only previous artwork I'd asked itunes to find). I ran 'get artwork' but it's only asigned artwork to the1st song in each album