iTunes won't let me add album artwork.

It doesn't happen automatically. If you cannot manually add artwork to Apple Lossless tracks then either there is something wrong with the source image, perhaps overly large, or again iTunes doesn't have the correct permissions to make changes to tracks once they are created.

tt2

I'm having exactly the same issue.

Manually adding artwork does not work on my system.

I've tried many ways of getting this to work to no avail. Seems like a bug to me.

I've only really started using iTunes as my main music player and currently in the midst of importing CDs.

For now I'm leaving them blank until Apple releases an update that'll hopefully fix it.

iTunes 12.3.1.23

OS X 10.9.5 (13F1134)

iTunes cannot add artwork to tracks in .wav format, that are locked as read-only, or for which the security permissions are set incorrectly. See Repair security permissions for iTunes for Windows.

tt2

Macbook pro…..itunes 12.2 Can't manually add album artwork? After hours of frustration, here is what finally fixed this for me…BTW….this also fixed the greyed out problem that left you unable to edit any details in the album info ( you do this by right clicking on a track and choosing get info} Go to finder…go to home…go to music folder…right click…choose get info….in this box, down at the bottom under sharing & permissions, make sure under privileges it says read and write…you may need to unlock to do this…just hit little arrow and choose read and write on all names…then click gear wheel at bottom and click apply to enclosed items… close box… next, repeat these steps with the iTunes folder that is located inside the music folder…. go to iTunes folder…right click…choose get info…in this box, down at the bottom under sharing & permissions. make sure under privileges it says read and write…you may need to unlock to do this…just hit little arrow and choose read and write on all names...then click gear wheel at bottom and click apply to enclosed items… close box… Perhaps it is only necessary to do this in the iTunes folder only…not sure…I did it to both folders and now I am able to add my own artwork and edit track information…no more greyed out areas...

If you convert the files to aiff, the artwork will appear as you would expect.

Convert from .wav? Yes, converting to .aiff will work to allow artwork and other metadata to be attached, but converting to Apple Lossless might make more sense in this case. Converting from any other format that happens to be locked will make bigger files with no gain in quality so wouldn't make sense.

tt2

I have an album that I just converted from MP3 to Apple Lossless and iTunes will not apply my jpg file as the album art.