Why iTunes loads the wrong artwork? How to fix it?

Question

I recently reformat my laptop, and had to backup my music, unfortunatelly, I didn't know how to backup the artwrk, so I just transfer my music to an external hard drive and moved it back to the laptop when this was format. I noticed my iTunes showed no artwork on any of my songs, so I added the "add artwork" command on all songs. It worked OK on 75% of my songs, but I found out that the other 25% of my songs had, either:
1.- Wrong artwork that shows a complete different picture.
2.- Artwork that estates the singer's & album's name but is not the actual CD cover.
3.- "Missing artwork" (unable to find artwork) on songs that had artwork before, and were actual download from original CDs
What can I do?, why this happens?

Answer 1

I both agree and disagree with your other answerer. First, I wouldn't "select them all at once" when you are selecting the music that has missing artwork. If you do that and then add new artwork, you will put the same artwork on ALL that music, and unless all that music has the same artwork, you shouldn't do this. Instead, select each individual song (or songs if they are from the same album) - you select by right-clicking on the song(s), then select "Get Info" and then "Artwork" - this is where you will put whatever artwork you want or can find. In answer to one of your questions, sometimes iTunes does put the wrong artwork because it will pick-up on some similar name or something in the name of the song. I've had this happen a few times. When it does, you go to the "Artwork" portion of your song as shown above, and then select it and hit "Delete". Then you will add the new artwork. FYI, I would suggest that you do what I do, and that is to create a folder where you will keep copies of all of your artwork because you never know - sometimes iTunes won't have a certain song or album anymore for whatever reason, and when that happens, then there goes the artwork if something happens to your computer and/or iTunes. That's happen to me before, but because I keep copies of all of my artwork (organized by Artist first and then Album/Song), then all I have to do is go to my own Artwork folder and recopy it back into my "Artwork" portion of my song(s). Also, the "Missing Artwork" you are referring to is when iTunes doesn't have that particular song/album, and that does happen because iTunes doesn't have every single song ever made. That is when you will have to go search the internet for other appropriate Artwork that you can use.



One other thing - your other answerer said that the Artwork needs to be in either jpeg or gif format, but every single piece of Artwork I have (including the ones from iTunes) is in bmp format.



Good luck to you!



EDIT: Forgot to say that I have right at 6,000 (yes, that's 6 thousand!) songs on my iPod. I've been working on my Library for quite some time now.

Answer 2

Try going to the albums that are missing the artwork, select them all at once, right-click to get info. Tab over to the area where there is a spot for the album artwork.



Here you can load any album artwork you have downloaded or created. Must be in a JPeg or Gif format, but this is one way that I use to get the album art for those hard-to-find albums. Oftentimes, Amazon will have some of these, so you can download those and put them in here.



Hope that helps!

Answer 3

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Why iTunes loads the wrong artwork? How to fix it?

I recently reformat my laptop, and had to backup my music, unfortunatelly, I didn't know how to backup the artwrk, so I just transfer my music to an external hard drive and moved it back to the laptop when this was format. I noticed my iTunes showed no artwork on any of my songs, so I added the...

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