So far the only way I've been able to resolve the problem is to delete the entire album and re-rip, as described earlier.
Maybe the Add Art process corrupts the music file for some reason? It may be that after adding the art and clicking OK I moved to the next album too quickly at times and start another before the first had enough time to complete the embed process? I was adding art to a bunch of newly ripped albums at a rapid pace. Disc 1 art is fine while disc 2 art failed. Any attempt to delete the art and re-add, even a different art, leads to the same failed result.Īlso, if the art was corrupt, would it work on disc 1 and not disc 2? Two of the examples I posted are two disc albums and I used the same art image from my HD for both. It still leaves remnants of the corrupted art and looks similar to the examples posted. I'll add that deleting the bad artwork from the album, even multiple attempts, does not completely remove it. Try deleting it and adding another image. If it weren't embedded, it wouldn't show up at all. Would like to avoid having to re-rip additional problematic albums and learn why the issue occurs in the first place? Not sure if all these steps were necessarily related to any success, just describing what I did.
One thing that has worked has been to delete the album from iTunes library, trash album art cache folder, empty trash, restart computer, re-rip CD, add artwork. Actually, option 2 worked once, if I recall, but not on another album. My method for adding artwork is the following:ġ) Delete artwork from iTunes album and re-addĢ) Delete artwork from iTunes album, trash Album Artwork cache folder, restart computer, re-addĪnd different variations of the two above. Some tracks are blank, while some tracks have the art correct, and some tracks have a partial strip of the artwork displayed. and now you do.Would like to know why my album art does not always embed correctly in iTunes? On about 15 albums I noticed the art is not embedded in a few songs within an album. Anyway, the older and faster method is still around you just have to know the "trick". The fact that you can still get to the feature by pressing the Option key indicates that the changes were by design. It could be part of the big package of iTunes GUI changes that have troubled many users. Maybe Apple meant to make this change, or perhaps it was an oversight. You can see both versions below: the current "improved" design and the "hidden" old version that you can restore by pressing the Option key. Just hold the Option key down before you select "Get Info" to bring back the old GUI that lets you drag and drop your album art right into iTunes. It takes more steps to add the album art, and who knows why Apple made the change.ĭon't despair! The old tried and true method is still there, but hidden. Doing the same sequence now gets you a newly designed dialog box that wants you to load the graphic from a location - no more drag and drop.
That all changed in iTunes 12, for reasons that escape me. You could Google the album art, then simply drag the album cover from the web page to the designated spot after selecting all the album tracks and doing a "Get Info" (Command-I) from the File menu of iTunes. Until version 12 arrived, it was a pretty simple process. I am very dedicated to getting the proper album art on the hundreds of CDs I've put into iTunes.