How do I download album artwork on iTunes 12.4

The Get Album Artwork function is now on the File menu (File > Library > Get Album Artwork) as well as in the right-click context menu. Be aware, though, that some users have reported that it attempts to get artwork for the entire library rather than the selected item(s).

It's now located under File > Library > Get Album Artwork

Yes, there is a command in the menu bar under File, but that command applies to the entire iTunes library, not to specific selected songs. And that command was there before in the menu bar, in previous iTunes.

To do Get Album Artwork for a particular album, show your Music library using the Albums view (to show your library as a grid of square album "tiles"). Right-click album with missing album artwork. You'll see that the command for Get Album Artwork IS present (in the contextual menu), when using Albums view. That actually makes sense, because missing album artwork is generally for all songs on an album. After all, the command is (and has always been) Get Album Artwork, not Get Song Artwork. 🙂

Same problem, updated to 12.4 and almost all of my album art went away. Tried to add "get album artwork" but it it is greyed out. Why cannot Apple get this right already!

I agree with the Album vs. Song Artwork logic. However, in the past, if the artwork wasn't "available" I then could/had to "copy & paste" a picture into every song. Is that still an option with iTunes 12.4?

That's done from the song's Get Info window, on the Artwork tab. It's there and has not changed. I just tried it with a song, and it works.

The artwork functions in the Get Info window are still bizarrely inconsistent (especially given that there used to be right-click operations for both copy and paste). For reference, these are the options available:

• click on the Add Artwork button, navigate to and select an image file stored on your PC
• drag and drop an image file from an open Windows Explorer / File Explorer window to the Artwork tab
• with the artwork tab active, press Ctrl-V to paste an image from the Windows clipboard
• to delete existing artwork, left-click on the thumbnail image at the top left of the Artwork tab (its boundary should then be highlighted) then press the Delete Key
• the right-click > Delete Artwork function is actually a Cut operation, in that as well as removing the current image from iTunes it adds it to the Windows clipboard

I just don't understand why Apple continually decides to *remove* features that work perfectly well. So I can't do this on a per-song basis? Why not?

This has to be one of the DUMBEST changes Apple has ever made. Why REMOVE FEATURES!? Why should I have to SEARCH THE INTERNET to figure out where this core feature went!?

The user intuitiveness that Apple used to be known for died with Steve Jobs. Truly sad.

iTunes looks more and more like a Windows program with every update.

Only problem is the feature Get Album Artwork does not work consistently as it used to. It is now more likely to NOT download the Artwork. My success rates is under 50%. Some albums iTunes no longer finds Artwork:

NOW That's What I Call Music, Vol. 58

NOW That's What I Call Rock

New Sirens of Song - Sultry Singers

98 Degrees And Rising

Millennium Hip-Hop Party

Wilson Pickett In The Midnight Hour And Other Hits

Willie Nelson & The Beach Boys Stars And Stripes, Vol. 1

Genuine Houserockin' Music III

Putumayo Presents Arabic Groove

And to add insult to injury I purchased this song on iTunes:

Ring of Fire (American Idol Studio Version) - Single

and the iTunes program cannot find the Artwork.

Al primo avvio di iTunes 12 la lettura delle cover e tutto il programma si blocca. Uscendo e lanciando nuovamente iTunes torna a posto. Spegnendo il sistema e avviando iTunes si presenta lo stesso problema.

The main problem is that Get album artwork simply doesn't work about half the time. I don't know what database Apple is using, but it's *totally* inadequate. I can always find an appropriate image on the web and add it manually, but that's a pain, and should be unnecessary.

Does apple even use gracenotes anynore ? Finding album artwork as someone down the page said is about 50% for me too.