Fixing the album artwork on your iPod Nano begins with iTunes on your computer.
Many iPod models, including the fifth-generation Nano, include Cover Flow, software that arranges your artwork in a sleek, contemporary fashion. Cover Flow also allows you to flip through your albums and view their cover art, as if you had a digital record collection. However, you may occasionally find that some of the records are missing cover art. This situation can be easily remedied.
ITunes Artwork
ITunes allows you to transfer music, movies and e-books to your iPod or other portable audio device. When you sync your iPod Nano to iTunes, it transfers information from your computer to the device digitally. In addition to the songs, the artwork from iTunes is also transferred. Basically, the artwork that appears, or fails to appear, in your iPod Nano's Cover Flow is linked to iTunes. To edit your iTunes artwork, right-click an album, and then select "Get Info." Click the "Artwork" tab, and then you can view, delete or add an image to the box in the bottom, right corner.
Corrupt Artwork
Corrupt files in computers are essentially files that have gotten bugs, or have stopped communicating properly with other apps. They may become incompatible with certain programs, or they might stop working all together. If you have older artwork in your iTunes library, or you haven't updated iTunes in awhile, some of the artwork may be corrupt. Corrupt files can't usually be fixed, but should instead be replaced. Write down the names of the albums that are missing artwork on your iPod Nano's Cover Flow. If the artwork appears in your iTunes app on your computer, delete the artwork, and then replace it with a new image.
Single Song Missing Artwork
Sometimes a single song from an album may be missing artwork. This could be because the song had a featured artist on it, causing it to be sorted differently, or because you missed it when you were adding artwork to your albums in iTunes. In any case, even a single song missing its artwork can cause the entire album to appear as if it doesn't have artwork in your Nano's Cover Flow. To fix this problem, go to iTunes, and add artwork by highlighting every song in an album. Click the first song, hold down the "Shift" key on your keyboard, and click the last song. Everything in between will be highlighted. Right-click the group of songs, and then select "Get Info." You may receive a notification telling you that you're editing multiple tracks. After confirming that this is what you want to do, add the album artwork as usual.
Third-Party Programs
If you're not particularly tech savvy, or you don't want to take on the task of editing each one of your albums' artwork files in iTunes, you can get a third party plug-in to do it for you. Apps like TuneUp, MP3tag and iArtwork are designed to organize your iTunes library for you. Just purchase, download and install the app of your choice, and then run the program. After all of your iTunes albums have the proper artwork, you can sync iTunes with your Nano, and your Cover Flow should have all the appropriate artwork.
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