How do I refresh iTunes album art?

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How do I refresh iTunes album art?

Hi,

Every now and then, my iTunes (v. 12.5.5.5) stops showing most (never all) of my album artwork.

For every album, I've downloaded artwork from Google and manually dropped it in the Artwork panel in "Get Info". When iTunes all of a sudden fails to show the artwork of my albums, the only way to get it back is to go to each album individually, select the first song, go to "Get Info", click on "Artwork" (it's there, it's never missing) and then just press Enter. Fixed.

But this is tedious and time consuming.

I've tried Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes and some other scripts, but none seem to make any change.

Does anyone have a solution for this problem, preferably an automated one?

Thanks,

Alexander

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), iTunes 12.5.5.5

Posted on Feb 23, 2017 1:42 PM

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Answer 1

chris_g1

Community Specialist

Feb 24, 2017 4:39 PM in response to AlexanderDecommere

Good afternoon AlexanderDecommere,

If you want to update the artwork for albums you have in your iTunes library, take a look at the steps outlined in the resource below:

iTunes for Mac: Add artwork to songs and other items

Take care.

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Answer 2

turingtest2

Level 10

272,943 points

Feb 25, 2017 12:42 PM in response to AlexanderDecommere

Backup your entire iTunes folder.

Embed any non-embedded artwork. Probably http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=trackswithoutembedded and https://dougscripts.com/itunes/pdf/embedart.pdf will be useful.