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Q: iTunes 12 cannot update album artwork

I have always been able to manually add artwork to my music and home videos, but I just updated to the new OS X Yosemite, and every time I try to manually add artwork...it acts like it is going to add, then it just disappears and doesn't come back.  Is this a bug or is there a new way to add album artwork?

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 18, 2014 5:58 AM

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  • by c12345e,

    c12345e c12345e Jan 28, 2015 10:05 PM in response to sPiDeRmOnKeY7
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    Jan 28, 2015 10:05 PM in response to sPiDeRmOnKeY7

    So, does it not work when you press "Command I"?

  • by capt601,

    capt601 capt601 Feb 1, 2015 11:43 AM in response to c12345e
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    Feb 1, 2015 11:43 AM in response to c12345e

    just went through this with hundreds of movies that i have and the artwork would not show up in iTunes 12 even though it was there and previous iTunes  versions showed the artwork.  i found an applescript that does this without manually having to go though each movie, tv show album, etc...

    here it is: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=reembedartwork

  • by gmbar,

    gmbar gmbar Feb 6, 2015 10:19 AM in response to panamakira
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    Feb 6, 2015 10:19 AM in response to panamakira

    Only solution that worked for me - latest files I imported were in .wav format (unintentional).  Converted to .mp3 (and moved the .wav files out of iTunes control) and all now works.

  • by Soulo_Guero,

    Soulo_Guero Soulo_Guero Feb 8, 2015 10:54 AM in response to Gibunit
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    Feb 8, 2015 10:54 AM in response to Gibunit

    This worked for me, as a Windows user.

  • by runalong1014,

    runalong1014 runalong1014 Feb 10, 2015 6:33 PM in response to Gibunit
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    Feb 10, 2015 6:33 PM in response to Gibunit

    This worked for me as well. Thanks!

  • by racerosx,

    racerosx racerosx Feb 27, 2015 10:56 AM in response to sPiDeRmOnKeY7
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    Feb 27, 2015 10:56 AM in response to sPiDeRmOnKeY7

    I'm seeing weirdness when I sync my TV Shows over to my iPad.  When I define them as "TV Show", no icon cover art on the iPad.  When I define them as "Movie", icon cover art shows up on the iPad no problem.

  • by fromnottingham,

    fromnottingham fromnottingham Feb 27, 2015 1:30 PM in response to capt601
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    Feb 27, 2015 1:30 PM in response to capt601

    can I charge Apple for all this extra work?

  • by FestersMAC,

    FestersMAC FestersMAC Apr 18, 2015 11:49 AM in response to gmbar
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    Apr 18, 2015 11:49 AM in response to gmbar

    Bingo!!! Edit from .wav format to Apple Lossless and it worked!

  • by hanuman68,

    hanuman68 hanuman68 Apr 21, 2015 10:50 AM in response to sPiDeRmOnKeY7
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    Apr 21, 2015 10:50 AM in response to sPiDeRmOnKeY7

    I have a related issue.  I was adding an audiobook I have to iTunes 12 and could not add the artwork. I tried the option-get info method discussed here to pull up the old iTunes 11 version but that wouldn't work for me.  For reference, I an on a Macbook Pro running Yosemite 10.10.2.  What I discovered was that the file format made all the difference.  The audiobook I was loading was a .wav file.  I deleted what I had already loaded in. Then I went to iTunes>Preferences>General in the menu and changed the import options to AAC encoder to change the file format and after that I was able to add artwork to the file and change it to audiobook format (all under the get info menu option).  Note: if you are concerned about the sound quality of a file or may want to save it to some other high quality format later Apple Lossless may be a better format to import it in.  Apple lossless will compress the data like AAC but it does not lose some of the data like AAC does.  For my audiobook the sound quality difference doesn't matter.

  • by gborama,

    gborama gborama Apr 27, 2015 3:02 AM in response to sPiDeRmOnKeY7
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    Apr 27, 2015 3:02 AM in response to sPiDeRmOnKeY7

    I had the same problem trying to add artwork to music I have made. I first put in artist info, album name and such, but when I tried to add artwork it just wouldn't happen. Solved by removing the tracks from iTunes, and adding it again. This time around I started with the artwork, and it worked immediately! Went on to add artist and song info, and it now everything is perfect

  • by gborama,

    gborama gborama Apr 27, 2015 3:09 AM in response to gborama
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    Apr 27, 2015 3:09 AM in response to gborama

    I'm sorry to say, I was wrong. It seems that the problem is related to .wav files. I was able to add artwork to .m4a (AAC) files, but it still seems impossible to do with the .wav files. And I sort of want to keep the .wav files. Unhappy again!

  • by BozeKB,

    BozeKB BozeKB May 31, 2015 11:18 AM in response to gborama
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    May 31, 2015 11:18 AM in response to gborama

    I have had some similar issues recently. My main issues maybe rather cometic to be honest.

    I have been able to save all applicable artwork to my files through iTunes using the "Get Info" tab & selecting any artwork I choose. For songs/albums, I simply go to the wiki page of that album, drag a copy of the album artwork, let's say, to my desktop, & it's there so I can drag it to the "Artwork" tab from the "Get Info" option when I'm ready. I re-open iTunes, look at the "My Music" folder for example, & WHA-LA,..the artwork is there when I'm looking at it from iTunes.

    The strange thing I'm experiencing lately is what I see from my source library. I keep all my mp3s in my external HD. I used to be able to see the artwork connected to all mp3s that I updated using iTunes, even WITHOUT having iTunes open….& I can still see the older files that I've updated artwork that way. But any new files that I upload artwork through iTunes recently, the artwork does not appear in my lib ray source HD,..as before.

     

    Anyone have any similiar issues like this?….as I said, I know it sounds rather selfish, but I'd like to see the artwork in my source library as well as in iTunes.

  • by LeeNev,

    LeeNev LeeNev Jun 8, 2015 2:36 PM in response to Gibunit
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    Jun 8, 2015 2:36 PM in response to Gibunit

    Thanks this helped me out so much, been looking for a way to fix that problem for about two hours now from site to and site finally an answer that worked!

     

    -Thank You Gibunit

  • by asia18,

    asia18 asia18 Jun 15, 2015 1:29 AM in response to sPiDeRmOnKeY7
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    Jun 15, 2015 1:29 AM in response to sPiDeRmOnKeY7

    Command click on an album, then click "File", and go to "Get Info", and then go to "Artwork"

  • by speedofsound0303,

    speedofsound0303 speedofsound0303 Jun 28, 2015 11:33 AM in response to Munkeyhunk
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    Jun 28, 2015 11:33 AM in response to Munkeyhunk

    Thank you. Completely forgot to check the attributes of the actual music. Also ran iTunes in Admin status. Running iTunes 12

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