I need help with my Ipod..

[Staind204]

I recently got an Ipod but am having some trouble with it. I added cover art to every MP3 I have. When I put them on my Ipod only certain ones are there. For example, in my Beatles directory of the Ipod.. 4 of the albums have cover art while the other 11 do not. When I look in Itunes, all 15 of the albums have the cover art. I also have some bands where the CDs are separated. For example for AC/DC I have 3 songs from the album Back in Black. The ipod displays this as 2 separate albums. One Back in Black has 2 songs while the other has 1. I have checked multiple times and the tags are identical for the two albums. In Itunes these are shown as 3 songs in one cd but the Ipod breaks the album into multiple parts (as I mentioned with my Back in Black example). Also earlier today when I was updating my library art I kept getting the error "the itunes library file cannot be saved there is not enough memory." This didn't make any sense at all, I am running a bare XP with 4 GB of memory (well only 3 is recognizable in a 32 bit but you get the point). When I got this error I lost some of my cover art but when I closed and reopened, it was all back. I am not too impressed with the Ipod so far . BTW I have the 6th gen 120 GB ipod and am running Itunes 8.0.2. Any idea whats going on?

 

[Ziv]

Mine just randomly picks and chooses what covers it wants to have. I have a 2nd gen touch 32 gig. I don't remember what iTunes im using.

 

[crunchb3rry]

Did you add it by using iTunes "find album art" feature or did you open song(s) and drag an image to the art box? If you do it that way, it embeds the image into the file (so it'll show up on Windows Media Player, iPod, Winamp, etc.). But if you did it the quick and dirty automated way, all your art is going to be stored outside the file within a database. Better to put the work in and hardcode your album art.

The above applies ESPECIALLY if you are getting random album art. Like in Windows Media Player's library. I had this problem and it went away when I put the album art in manually (using Google Images, finding a good pic, then dragging it into the album art box within the ID3 tag editor. It'll put the art in every file.

For the multiple albums thing, one problem can be slightly different tags that you might not notice, like an extra space character. Try shift+clicking to select that entire album and edit all the tags at once, retyping the album name, or even the other tags like Album Artist, etc. There's a thing in the ID3 tag too on the Options tab called "part of a compilation", you'd check that box if you have different artists from something like a soundtrack album where you want the individual songs recognized as part of a whole.

 

[VipFREAK]

I don't know what it is about ibOOns... It's a complete FAIL when it comes to Cover art. I've been trying my damnest to make sure none of my music has it, but even after I clear all of them it shows up. I just gave up.