iTunes 5.0 Special Report: Album art not displayed, solutions

A number of users have reported that iTunes no longer displays some album artwork after the upgrade to iTunes 5.0.

In some cases, a tedious workaround has been successful: Navigate to the iTunes music library (by default located at ~/Music/iTunes/), open the album folder, and open each track individually in iTunes either by double clicking or control-clicking the individual track and selecting "Open with iTunes."

Another workaround requires simply turning album artwork off then back on.

"I've experienced several problems after iTunes upgrades where album artwork does not display properly on my iPod. In the case of iTunes 5, most of my subscribed podcasts and a large number of my music tracks were showing up with the same artwork (from a music track in my collection). The fix in every case where I've had a problem has been to disable the "Display Album Artwork" option in the iPod preferences, sync the iPod, turn the option back on, and sync the iPod again."

Index:

• Release Notes
• iTunes 5.0.1 coming with several bug fixes
• Album art not displayed, solutions
• Disc burning issues: Drives not recognized, more
• New interface design complaints
• iPod mini problems
• iPod not recognized
• iTunes encoded tracks not playing correctly in other applications
• Jumping from song to song erratically
• Entire library lost, fix
• Make sure your iApps are updated
• Sharing not working; fix
• Persistent "Quit iTunes before installing" message, fix
• Podcasts lost
• Purchased music playlist lost
• Reverting (downgrading) to iTunes 4.9
• Some music (particularly purchased tracks) not transferring to iPod
• Playback problems
• Tracks demanding re-authorization
• Improvements

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