how do i manually add album art to itunes 11?

Select all of the tracks of the album. Press CTRL+I to Get Info. Paste or drag and drop artwork into the white artwork square of the Info tab.

tt2

This fixed the problem for me thanks.

Mine are wav format but I am able to add album artwork to the folder by clicking "Get Album Artwork" and a picture is downloaded from the database on iTunes store.

However when I tried to add album artwork manually the picture just wouldn't come up. I did all the right things by dragging jpg file into the white box and clicking "OK".

So how can I get it worked?

iTunes associates images with music files and albums in two different ways:

• anything purchased from the iTunes Store, or where you can use Get Artwork (which uses the Store as the image source) puts the artwork into separate files, within the Album Artwork folder of your iTunes library
• when you add artwork manually (via the Get Info dialog) the artwork is embedded within the audio files, as long as the format used supports inclusion of images

Unfortunately from your perspective, the wav format does not support embedded images, so the second option isn't available to you. You could convert your music to Apple Lossless (no loss of quality - actually the same audio data as a wav file, within a different container), which does support embedded images.

Its a combination of a limitation of the wav format (which, to be fair, was never intended as anything other than a way to hold a CD audio stream within a file) and one of iTunes ... you would think that it should be pretty easy from a programming perspective to detect a wav file when you add artwork manually and use the approach of a separate file as done for Get Artwork. However, Apple may have good reasons for not supporting this - the files that are stored in the Album Artwork subfolders are not "standard" image files (JPEG, etc.) and there may be issues/overheads with converting arbitrary images (different formats, sizes, resolutions) into what iTunes expects for the Store-derived artwork.

Thanks a lot. I can't believe I didn't think of that. 🙂

In addition to incorrectly set read-only flags there is scope for security permissions problems. Should you have other albums you cannot update you might find this tip useful. Repair security permissions for iTunes for Windows.

tt2

Thanks evilgnome, and others. I'd just add that iTunes v11 works slightly differently from what I'm used to doing in v10. The "paste" function (i.e. pasting whatever image you've copied to memory) can't be done via right-click; but it can still be done via CTRL-V. I hope that helps anyone.

I had a similar problem with manually selecting artwork - I tried many of the approaches above but nothing seemed to fix the problem. I noticed that the albums which didn't allow me to affix a jpeg were all .wav digital files. Converting the .wav files to mp3's worked a treat. All albums now have Artwork.

thank you!! this was extremely helpful 🙂 I´ve been trying to do this for a while haha. thanks!

You're welcome. 🙂

tt2

I GarageBand'd a few songs and now I cannot add art to the newly edited songs. Any suggestions?

lazylightning23 wrote:

I GarageBand'd a few songs and now I cannot add art to the newly edited songs. Any suggestions?

What format are the newly edited songs now in? Remember, you've edited them so it's possible the format is no longer what you're expecting.

Worked for me OS Lion and iTunes 12.2

Loss of quality a treat? I copied my cd's into itunes in AIFF format (equivalent to WAV) then you can paste your pics.