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When I upgraded from iTunes 11X to iTunes 12, I lost all my album artwork. I now have iTunes 12.4, but am missing a lot of artwork. I have been able to recover some of the artwork by control - clicking on the 'cover' and selecting Get album artwork, but this hasn't worked for all albums. What do I do to regain the artwork?
I search out the vast majority of my album art myself. iTunes is all to often just guessing at what I've added to my library. Does iTunes hold those pictures in a particular location? Some items keep resorting to older images that I had associated with the album previously even though I've added the newer one. Is there are way to update the images that I've added to each album and not have iTunes revert it back to an earlier image?
Dr Chanowski: I'm like you. I search all the albums myself...I'm a retired senior so I have a lot of time. I don't have a smartphone but do have a new iPod Touch and ran into the same problem you did. When I went to synch a few songs, iTunes changed album covers that weren't in my library and I hated them. So after doing a little research and listening to some other folks, I found that when you synch, your device really is requesting the Apple Store for those covers. Apple maintains its "boxed sets" of albums and if that song you have was on their boxed set, you usually get that. Now, I've been able to keep the album artwori that I want and ignore Apple's desires. So, I turn Airplane Mode ON on my iPod (or your iPhone). This way, the device can't communicate with the Apple Store and only synchs what's in my library. One guy I know even shuts off his Wi-Fi while synching....that way there is no communication between the device and the Apple Store. When you're done synching, turn Airplane Mode OFF, turn on Wi-Fi, and then you have access to all the internet stuff. I'm a low-tech guy not very tech smart, so I turn off Apple Music, Genius, etc. Under previous iTunes editions it wasn't a problem. I heard it is the new OS that does this. Hope this is helpful in some way.
I find that allowing iTunes to find the covers is all too often inaccurate. If I can't find a particular cover online I just shoot the cover on my smartphone and upload it to where I can attached to the album
Thank you. Step 2 - command - A worked for me to select all albums. That recovered a lot of the missing artwork, but it still didn't find 219 albums even after running it several times.
That's a good idea. I try to find the highest quality album artwork...sometimes it's easy to find but many times it isn't. It's hit or miss with the Apple Store.
Goggle search is a good source and it's much easier to paste in.
Theres even a Doug's AppleScript for that.
Thanks. There is also a British site that has all the iTunes album artwork, some in HD that I use, but like you said, I do find Google, or sometimes Bing, to be helpful.
Recover Music Album Artwork
