Album Artwork Not Showing

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Album Artwork Not Showing

Hi, running itunes 12.3.1 on Windows 10 PC.

I'm having a problem with getting all of my album artwork to display in itunes on my PC. My library is pretty big (approx 2500 albums). I've tried solutions suggested by others to delete the artwork cache but this has not solved the problem. When I browse my albums, about half of the artwork is missing. However, artwork appears correctly on my ipod.

Also, if I go into each album through Get Info, I can see the artwork. Closing Get Info and then selecting the album then does display the artwork.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

iPod classic (120 GB), Windows 10

Posted on Nov 29, 2015 9:57 AM

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Answer 1

turingtest2

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Nov 29, 2015 11:16 AM in response to stevemack

Try stepping through the albums in the albums view. It used to be easier because after selecting the last album on the right iTunes would select the first on the next row, In fact it might be easier to do one column at a time. If selecting the album doesn't work then I have several scripts that export artwork & data about the library that might refresh the cache as a side effect.

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stevemack Author

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Nov 29, 2015 12:34 PM in response to turingtest2

Hi, I tried the ExportCSV script and ran it on the whole library but this hasn't made a difference.

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turingtest2

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Nov 29, 2015 1:14 PM in response to stevemack

Hmm, that's a shame. I'd hoped that it might do the trick. 😟

Was the artwork embedded in all tracks? Have you tried Get Album Artwork on all tracks that don't apparently have art now? A smart playlist with the rule Has artwork is false should gather everything together. Add Playlist is Music to exclude other media.

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stevemack Author

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Nov 29, 2015 11:27 PM in response to turingtest2

Hi, I've tried the smart playlist solution. This identified approx 300 albums without artwork so I'll need to add this back in one by one for these albums (get album artwork didn't work for these). For the remainder of the albums, I may just have to go through these one by one, selecting Get Info and moving onto the next album.

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