Can't manually add artwork to iTunes?

thanks man, that helps..

Would image size of jpeg have a hinderance on adding art? I'm trying to drop my own art work in my own album. A few years ago it wasn't an issue. Tried everything in this feed and another. Except the Homebrew thing. No going that far for some artwork . Using most current iTunes 11.3.

I've been using iTunes / Mac for a decade and it has not been more frustrating. Dragging and dropping artwork used to be rarely an issue, regardless of what i was adding artwork to. . I Appreciate everyone's troubleshooting help, but i'm chalking this up to bugs...unless anyone has any other suggestions. Mavericks has given me mostly headaches since it's release on many fronts. Pardon me. Had to vent.

I'm getting something broadly similar. Some albums just won't display artwork no matter what I've tried.

1: Album with fully-functioning artwork

2: Album without artwork but adding it manually works OK.

3: Album that won't add artwork.

Note blank space on the right.

4: Info for multiple files for type 3.

Double-click the "Artwork" box, add a .jpg and you get this.

5:

Click "OK", though, and nothing happens; the display is as per picture 3. Go back into "Get Info" for multiple files and the "Artwork" box is blank again. Selecting and completing the "Album Artist" box makes no difference either.

Selecting a single file, however, gives you this:

6: Single track "Summary" tab

and this:

7: Single file "Artwork" tab:

Clicking "OK" has no effect on the screen shown in #3. I've checked the file properties from Windows Explorer and they're not Read-Only. Nor is the parent folder. The "Part of a compilation" checkbox on the "Info" tab is not checked, so it aten't that.

I'm guessing that something is telling iTunes that a particular album can't have artwork but I am ****** if I can figure out what. There's nothing obviously different when viewed with a third-party tag editor either.

Any thoughts gratefully received...

Additional: It seems that the foregoing only applies in the "Songs" view; select "Albums" or "Artists" and manually-added artwork as apparently not added in the "Songs" view shows up 😕 It's also possible to add artwork to the albums that show up like picture 3, though again this doesn't appear in the "Songs" view.

More confuzzled than ever...

the fiend's suggestion worked for me. It seems if it's not an mp3 file, you must "create mp3 version" and then add the artwork to the mp3 version. My file was .mov - audio only - saved from ScreenFlow. Thanks fiend!

Almost all the formats that are compatible with iTunes (exceptions include .wav and - I assume from your example - .mov) can have artwork embedded in them. Unless the initial imports are in one of these "exception" formats, you don't need to convert to mp3 (and doing so from any other lossy format will reduce audio quality) just to associate artwork. It may be worth looking for a 3rd party utility that can extract the audio data from a .mov file without re-encoding it.

Quite by accident I found that in "Songs" view, clicking "View" then "View Options" and selecting "Always Show" will display artwork for everything in the "Songs" view. Obvious now I know it's there, but...

What work for me is:

• don't drag artwork on the cover image area (wherever: info screen when right click on album or in the info pane of a song)
• instead: chose info (right click) for an album, delete the current album artwork and than chose the "add .." button and chose an artwork file on your harddisk.

It seems that using the add-function, proper changes are made within whatever-reference itunes file where adding through dragging doesn't.

Further info:

- I use iTunes 12

- I used to drag artwork instead of using the add-function

- After updating iTunes Match old artwork was reinstalled

Hopes it works for you, Good Luck & Regards.

It worked! thanks you!

Thank you, your suggestion is 100% works and very simple

Thanks man, U R da real MVP. This totally worked for me 🙂

I never had trouble manually adding artwork to my tracks before until now (6/3/16). Is there a new bug? My artwork gets added temporarily, and gets replaced by something random one minute later.

thanks man also had the same problem too but thanks to you i have solve it, you're my hero

Thank you very much it worked!