Make sure the album name, song name and artist is filled up.Right click on the music and click on “Get Info”.There will probably be copyright laws on the images and you’ll have to be careful when you get them from the sites. Take care when you are getting these images from the Internet. If all else fails, get the song again from iTunes. If you don’t see the image on your iPod, delete the song and add it again. If in case a song already has an image on it which you want to replace, follow the same procedure and drag and drop (or copy and paste) the new image onto the older one.Click “Ok” and then wait for a while for the images to add. Then click on “Get Info” and add the image like described in the above step.
With the song selected, click on “File” on the top tool bar and click on “Get Info”. Click on the song for which you found the image.Another way is to scan the CD front image and using that scanned image.
Download the image onto your computer when you have found the right one. You will most likely find the image on Wikipedia, and if you don’t, search the others. The best places to get the images from are the record label site,, Wikipedia and.You’ll have to either get the songs from your iPod to your computer, add the image and send them back to the iPod afterwards to maintain the artwork on both your computer and the iPod. In this case, you’ll have to search for the images manually through the Internet. The songs that iTunes failed to get images for, are probably the ones you didn’t buy from iTunes. You can also use Coverflow to double-check if there are any more songs left. After the process is done, you’ll get a notification for all the songs for whom artwork couldn’t be retrieved.Also, the songs must be tagged properly, with no spelling mistakes in the song name, album name or genre. Having to download the same image for a song and its copy will only delay the process. A point here is to try to remove any and all duplicate songs from your iTunes. This takes time according to the number of non-artwork songs you have.You should get “Processing Album Artwork” on the top middle status bar. It’s preferred you’re not listening to music or using any application that consumes too much RAM. There is an option “Get Album Artwork” in the panel. You will then click on the “Advanced” panel on the top tool bar on iTunes.Click on it to see the artwork for any song. There’s a button on the bottom right corner of the iTunes window, that says, “Show or hide item artwork and window viewer”. Ways to Get Album Artwork for Songs on Your iPod iTunes Artwork Recoveryįirst up, you need to activate the album artwork panel. There is a method to recover the image, which I have described below. Overlooking the third point (only for the sake of the article, I hate pirates), ripping the song from a CD will not get you any artwork with it. The song/album you downloaded off iTunes wasn’t complete.Which is why it’s a little lame when some songs in between don’t have any images on them. ITunes comes with its own unique display of album artwork to add a little extra depth to your iPod playlists. Retrieving any album artwork and adding it to the iTunes library is simple enough, just follow the ways given below. If you’ve ripped songs off a CD and put it into your iTunes, they probably don’t have any album artwork on it.