Album Artwork missing after iTunes 11 update

Hi zjuk

I tried doing what you suggested but nothing happened...do you know of any other way to get artwork on for albums?

Rachofthenorth,

Do you use PC or Mac? I'm using XP.

try summary tab instant of artwork tab and do both ways several times.

Got the solution.

1. Save the album in another folder.
2. Just delete the album from itunes.
3. Copy it back into itunes.

Your artwork, if it existed in the original folder will be back.

If deleting the above is too cumbursome, just delete the whole itunes music and copy it back. Remember to copy it somewhere safe first.

Yup, same thing here. Random cover art just went missing. Strangely, most of the albums are music bought on iTunes store.. figure that one out.

I really, really regret updating to version 11. Absolutely hate it!

I was strugling with this until i found a solution just now. (note i'm using windows, not sure if this applies to macs as well)

based on what i saw the artwork is still imbeded in the file, itunes just isn't showing it correctly. i found that if i right clicked on an individual song, set the tab to "artwork" it will show the correct artwork even if it isn't showing in itunes album view.

you can do either one or all of the ff:

1.)

go to music

select all songs (ctrl + a) right click (while all songs are selected),

select "get album artwork"

some will be fixed right off the bat, however for obvious reasons if itunes doesn't recognize the song, you won't get your artwork

2.)

go to music

select the songs view (so all songs will be listed)

right click the top most song

select "get info"

click on the artwork tab

then click next until you go through all the songs

i found that viewing the artwork and clicking next somehow refreshes the artwork for itunes.

this doesn't work for all though

3.) when all else fails: do it manually

go to music

select the album view (so you see which album doesn't have an artwork)

select a single song from the album

click on the artwork tab / copy the artwork, click ok

now select all songs from the album

select "get info"

paste the artwork to the lower right hand side (it says artwork)

then click ok.

hope this helps, been scratching my head over this for weeks.

Hi there.

I've been struggling with this, but it's EASY. I think it can be set to auto, but I am doing a huge RIP of my CDs.

So, I view it in Album mode, and then click the top left one, drag down and click the last one, RIGHT CLICK on any of them, and select 'Get Album Artwork', and it will start.

Some may say "cannot be found", because of age or availability, but it works. 🙂

I did what marckelvin suggested as option 2) , and I created a script using automator to automatically click next thousands of times, it fixed the problem for me.

Hey everyone,

Very simple, with iTunes open, go under File > Library > Get Album Artwork

You don’t have to go to the Next once Get Info is open.

1. Go to Album view
2. Select the first song (this will work only via the first one)
3. Press CMD + I (it will open Get Info)
4. Just press Enter

This is the fastest way I found.

Message was edited by: Kaske

Same problem here. Hours and hours of work down the drain. Thanks Apple.

I *think* I know what is happening. If at some point if you added artwork that was a non-standard jpeg (optimized or progressive) it is now not showing up. I have been re-saving jpgs to be standard and re-adding them to the mp3 files. PAIN AND AGONY thanks Apple.

Kaske's method works for me in Windows 8.1, but with one crucial note: you MUST be in the "My Music" tab or it won't work. At first I was doing this in the "Playlists" tab and getting nowhere.

That said, this is absolutely ridiculous. There should be an easy way to rebuild your library without losing/exporting/importing playlists and preferences. I find artwork disappears with disappointing regularity, and the "Get Info" dialog is a poorly-designed mess (if you don't press Shift before selecting it.) The UI issues and reliability problems that have been consistently ignored in 11 are key reasons I have not upgraded to 12. I guess being at the top means there's no incentive to improve or fix your product.

This is how I resolved this annoying issue in my iTunes 12...

Go to grid of albums and go to every album that is missing artwork - right click - get info - artwork - and than click on artwork image (if there is one attached)... click OK after that and it will reappear.

Here is a screenshot showing the selected artwork...

Hope this helps you guys!