After 7 Upgrade Album Art GONE

Possibly the new artwork file storage method is not supported with the old iPods.

Hi well i cant help you but i cant figur out how to have my own post so ill see if mabey you or someone can help me. well after i downloaded the softwere yesterday when it came out i played a song and it did not sound right so i went into windows media player i have windows xp i dont have a mac yet hope to well and when i played it sounded right well i rembered having downloaded win med player 2months ago and the same thang happend so i wonderd well i like to use itunes but the songe sound mest up so i tried to reset the hardwere accerlation and that didnot work i tried reinstalling the softwere compleaty nope. so i know that the media file is not mesd up but something with itunes is so can someone help. however after reinstillton i did not lose my album artwork. maby try show album artwork unless you have arledy tried.

I don't know Windows that well, I'm afraid. Try posting in the Using iTunes for Windows forum.

In the iTunes settings, you may wish to examine the new tabs whilst your iPod is connected and ensure "enable iTunes Artwork" is still checked. If not, recheck it and click "Apply".

If I'm being a silly git and you've already tried this, please accept my most humble apologies for wasting your time. 🙂

-Jonathan

The problem seems to be mildly sporadic too, since some album art appears OK on my iPod 4G Photo, and some doesn't.

-Jonathan

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Um windows is a little mabey tiny bit like mac but not compleaty i have recently taken interest in macs, and i love them, but dont have on want, one but, dont have one. I have tested one about 5 diffrent on diffrent days at a compusa store because, I dont live near an apple store. I have also looked up and read the manuals to tiger and the macbook i have read them so mutch i love mac more and more every time. Can,t waite and so i know a bit or a little of alot about mac not alot a little alot. Also I figured out how to post something.

Doing a restore on your iPod seems to do the trick. I can see a whole lot more album art than before, and spot checks indicate that the new artwork seems to be OK. 🙂

-Jonathan

I found that if I unchecked the option to include artwork on my ipod, applied that then rechecked the option, all artwork was added, new and old.

I'm having the same problem with getting artwork to transfer--I tried unchecking the "display album artwork on your iPod" and re-checking it, as others have done, but it doesn't work.

Hi all

I am not sure if this applies to all as I manually manage my songs. Previously I just dragged folders from my hard drive to the ipod and everything worked. Now, with the new iTunes, no artwork on the ipod! I restored and restored again, checked and unchecked....but nothing worked. I think I found MY solution though through trial and error....apparently artwork is handled differently in this new version... so now I have to add the folders first to the library and then drag from the library to the ipod....voila all my artwork is there. It requires one more step not unlike the having to "command info" to add artwork to multiple tracks NOW (everything is taking me just a bit longer to do)!

My other small gripe is using the word "delete" instead of "clear". I thought "clear" was a much more appropriate and nicer word. 😟


Sarah

same here - anything that i have put in manually through itunes 7 does not show up on my ipod. i have also tried the above suggestions with no luck.

they still appear just fine in itunes, just not on my ipod. album artwork that itunes found for me looks fine in itunes and on my ipod.

helllllp! 🙂

same problem here and the advice from above hasn't fixed it.

the album artwork from itunes appears on my ipod, the album artwork i uploaded doesn't.

helllllp! 🙂

Sorry that is is not working for you. Try this. Make sure the album art is embedded in the songs and not just downloaded through itunes music store. To embed the album art...select all songs and "get info" (apple-I) and drag the art wotk to the little artwork box. If it is embedded and then dragged from your library to the ipod...it should work. See if this helps.


Sarah

Thanks for the idea, Sarah, and it seems to work...but how do you propose embedding the artwork for hundreds of tracks?

Re-embedding the artwork does not work.

I am another user affected by this nasty bug. Album art appears when playing iPod tracks via iTunes, but it does not appear on iPod standalone. I suspect the model for attaching album art has changed in iTunes 7. It is not at all clear where album art resides anymore, and attaching artwork manually does not seem to guarantee it is being inserted into the ID tag.

OT: This is yet another nasty bug with iTunes 7.0 to add to my pile of problems: hidden files ( http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3154223#3154223 ), ignoring playback bookmarks ( http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3154967#3154967 ), stuck playback at end of tracks ( http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3176969#3176969 ). The pile is rising, the workarounds are non-existant.

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