Use "get info", and find the album art you want for an album, and then right click and "copy" it. Databases are funny things, you have to know exactly what you're doing to work on them! So, what you need to do is figure out where the album art you want for an album is at. Now, a key thing to know is in the iPod, the album cover you see is pulled from track 1 of that music! If the album art you see in iTunes is being pulled from a different track in the album, it will NOT appear in the iPod in your album list. Of course, you can also run "find artwork" in iTunes to find most of your stuff. Then put all the art in a folder in the same place. Then, I use Microsoft Paint sometimes to edit the album covers if I want to change something small about the way they appear. You want images that are square, and somewhere between 300 x 300 and 500 x 500, ideally. If you use Google Images, you can find a LOT of missing album art, a lot of it is on Amazon, and other sources. Now all my music was back, but still a lot of art issues, so on to that. Then on iTunes, I clicked "consolidate library" and it copies (it does not move) all your music in to the iTunes music folder in one place. Then, I re-checked "sync music" on iTunes and on sync, all my music was back on the iPod. Then, it took 2-3 sync's to finally get both the iPod and the iTunes with no music. Under "all music," sweep your finger across the right side of the all music bar, and the hidden delete button will appear. Then on the iPod, version 5.0.1, I had to go to Settings, then General, then Usage, then Music, and then there's a hidden delete button for the music. This does not erase your music, it just removes it from iTunes. So, what happened was, it is not that clear in iTunes 10.5, you have to go to the iPod tab, then the music tab, and uncheck the box that says "sync music", then at the bottom hit apply. I can't emphasize enough what a mistake it is to reset the iPod or iTunes to factory settings before you try everything else! There were 3 videos I brought that only existed on the iPod after I reset iTunes, and if I had reset both the iPod and iTunes before thinking, I would have lost them. I had to do the below and 2-3 syncs before I saw most of my art back.įirst, I had to find a way to get ALL the music off of both iTunes and the iPod. I read all the posts from people who lost all their album art. I'm not saying this will fix everyone's situations, but this will probably work for most of us.
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But that's another issue that doesn't affect most people, so back to the music issues.
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I had to find a way to find an earlier version of that app, Snaplink Mobile, and then revert to back to it. I had three problems, I was missing songs, I was missing album art, and I had a problem with one of my apps I just updated. I ran in to all these problems after I updated iTunes and the iPod, and a BIG mistake I made is I have not been keeping up with backing up iTunes.
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This information builds on things I learned in past iTunes versions, but this is mostly about iTunes 10.5.1, and iOS 5.0.1. I wanted to post this to try to help other people out there who are frustrated with the Album Art and other iTunes issues.