cannot add movie artwork after 12.0.1 update

Anyone come up with a work around for the Artwork upload in iTunes 12.1? Seems bizarre that apple don't have a fix for this.

The only way is to delete the movie from your itune library, re-add the folder from whereever it is, then you can apply artwork. Very lenghty just to change the artwork. For existing pre V12 movies in your library that are missing artwork, no other way.

They totally messed up the backward compatibility. Someone needs to teach Apple Engineering the concept of "regression testing".

I've not had any issues in a few weeks. First off, always make sure to do any editing by pushing "option," when you click Get Info. The boxes that open will look a slight bit different. And then it's always worked, except for <5... And each time, it's been a file which I think is locked or protected or something...regardless iTunes didn't play nice.

I've had that happen on a few others, and then the phantom movies that wouldn't play audio on ATV. But I've figured that one out. Mine have to be AAC 2ch.

Does anyone know exactly what the 2ch means? If I get new surround sound setup, will that switch it up?

Like others, I haven't had luck with the option key trick in 12.1. The same goes for deleting and re-importing the file, and other workarounds that helped in previous versions of iTunes. (I have had luck by saving the file in a lossy-ier format -- but to junk the music to preserve the artwork seems to have the priorities reversed.)

In my case, the artwork often "sticks" for a while, then mysteriously vanishes from certain (random) tracks -- the tracks then remain resistant to re-adding the artwork.

At this point I'm curious if anyone has had any luck -- even a third-party tag editor that embeds art in lossless files?

Hey "Best Names Taken" -- Try a free app called MetaZ (check macupdate.com). I've not tested it with "lossless" files as you suggest, but it's been working great for all my movie files. Actually it has yet to fail me, so I'm guessing it'll work in your case as well.

If Apple has their way, you'll make a Genius Bar appointment and they'll try to sell you a whole new computer.

Thanks exlaxad -- I'll look into it.

Another trick that some people have suggested -- it's of any help to anyone -- is to reduce the artwork's file size. It seems to have cropped up lately as a syncing issue, but it might also be useful in outwitting iTunes. (Haven't tried it yet, so I can't confirm.)

Isn't it kinda sad we need to have discussions on Apple's own forums about how to "outwit" one of their flagship applications? It's because we already KNOW they don't give a sh@t. They knew they broke it before they released the update, and therefore they'll never post an official solution.

MetaZ fixed it for me. Too bad we have to use another app to fix this. Thank you!

I am still having problems with adding artwork to my imported movies. Apple iTunes has never been without major problems and this new update is in-line with all of the previous editions. Why can't Apple create normalized easy to use simple iTunes products… no tricks or weird missing columns. I really wish I had artwork in my library 😢

FINALLY this worked, I was giving up all hope, thanks all.