[quote="easye"]I had the same problem, and found a fix that worked for me in another post:
[url]http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=77006#77006[/url]

Here are details of the steps I took. It will take me more time to type this out, then it actually took me to fix the problem.

I have iTunes installed but don't use it for syncing of anything to my iPod. Although I initially used it when I first set it up. The steps I used to fix this were:
- connect my iPod to my PC
- open iTunes (I have iTunes 7 installed)
- select your iPod on the left side of the window
- select the Music tab
- uncheck "Display album artwork on you iPod"
- click the Apply button (in my case nothing really happened here)
- check "Display album artwork on you iPod"
- click the Apply button (now iTunes did a bunch of syncing with the iPod, can't remember exactly what it said, but it was something like "formatting artwork for use with iPod".)
- click the Eject iPod button

After this, without doing another sync using MM, all the artwork appeared with my songs. So the artwork was there, it's just that the iPod wasn't "seeing" it.

Hope this works for others.[/quote]

Yeah I just played with this for my 30 gig iPod video. It appears MM is not formatting the album art correctly (IE: its not sizing it or formatting it properly). I did what you said, and all the album art shows up now.

I just installed the newest version of media monkey and everything is all good now

I had the same problem, and found a fix that worked for me in another post:
[url]http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=77006#77006[/url]

Here are details of the steps I took. It will take me more time to type this out, then it actually took me to fix the problem.

I have iTunes installed but don't use it for syncing of anything to my iPod. Although I initially used it when I first set it up. The steps I used to fix this were:
- connect my iPod to my PC
- open iTunes (I have iTunes 7 installed)
- select your iPod on the left side of the window
- select the Music tab
- uncheck "Display album artwork on you iPod"
- click the Apply button (in my case nothing really happened here)
- check "Display album artwork on you iPod"
- click the Apply button (now iTunes did a bunch of syncing with the iPod, can't remember exactly what it said, but it was something like "formatting artwork for use with iPod".)
- click the Eject iPod button

After this, without doing another sync using MM, all the artwork appeared with my songs. So the artwork was there, it's just that the iPod wasn't "seeing" it.

Hope this works for others.

Can't get my album art to show up either. It does occasionaly show up if under properties in album art I change it to Not Specified - but I really don't want to go through every album and change it that way. There is no batch way to do it that I can see.

I spent mucho time embedding album art into all my mp3s and now they show up as a black square on my new 80gig ipod video...

I've never been able to get the album art to work with my 8gig nano (2nd gen) either. i did install that dll which made it work, but now its screwed my media monkey. when i go into portable devices i get all kinds of error warnings and am not able to sync it anymore. I guess i will have to reinstall the program too to get the original dll back.... and then back to no album art.

Just an update to the above post. I reinstalled MM which put the original .dll back in place.

Just want to say that I really Hate itunes and would really like to never use it again.
I have album art for all of my music that was added using MM. All the art is embedded in the files.

I'm having other problems also with Playlists not showing up with mm.
If anyone can help with these problems, I would appreciate it.

Thanks
Hef

I followed these directions and replaced my ipod.dll. Album art finally showed up on my ipod, but the Ipod does not really show up in MM anymore. I believe there is an error in the dll for me.
I did manage to get the test playlist sync'd but I need to be able to see the IPOD to work with this correctly.
Of course I deleted the old dll. How can I get the older one back?

Thanks
Hef

Okay, maybe it helps if I explain the steps I took to make it work:

1. Erase all contents of the nano in Windows Explorer
2. Disconnect from PC
3. Restart nano -> it rewrites all infos erased on step 1 with factory defaults
4. Download this DLL:

http://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/d_iPod.dll

5. Copy it into the MM installation directory in \Plugins
6. Make a playlist called 'Synchronisation'
7. Configure the plugin in MM (Options > External Devices > Mark the iPod entry > Configure)

My settings are these:

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8. Put some files into the playlist 'Synchronisation'
9. Attach the iPod nano, right click on it in MM and select the entry that starts auto synch
10. After everything was synched completely, detach the nano safely
11. Wait till the warning on your nano disappears and the menu is shown
12. Check it!

Maybe this helps. :-)

[quote="Tankred"]I'm still not sure how this is related to MediaMonkey, at all? Do you use MediaMonkey?[/quote]

Yes, I do use MediaMonkey.

My theory was just based on the fact that MediaMonkey has to create an ipod format database that is recognised by the ipod firmware. If the database structure changes (eg, extra field to store gapless information) mediamonkey may need to update the structure it outputs.

I'm just postulating...

Hmm, it really should work fine now.

You can try to send me information I requested earlier in this thread, in this http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=59737#59737 and this http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=59767#59767 posts.

Jiri

I tried the new file d_iPod.dll.

When I rip a CD with MM, and Update the tags/album art via Amazon I will see the album art in MM.

But when I use MM to send this album to my IPOD I still can't see the album art on the IPOD.

If I use Itunes7 to send the album to Media Monkey (and I have auto album art update turned off) I can see the album art on my IPOD.

But I'de really like to get away from Itunes and use MM exclusivley.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

I'm still not sure how this is related to MediaMonkey, at all? Do you use MediaMonkey?

Could possibly be some of the extra metadata from the new itunes/ipod version - eg gapless tags. Maybe the data structure for a song has changed in the db on the ipod and stuff is out of alignment. Just a theory

Hi,

I have the 60 gig video ipod and I have been able to add album art al along. Suddenly it quit working. In itunes the album art still shows, but not on the ipod. The album art I added before the problem still shows on the Ipod as normal. What can be the reason fro this. I changed USB ports recently. Does that matter?

Okay, thanks to jiri for his quick and competent reaction to this matter!

Today's synchronization went fine and I will observe how it wents in the future. For now, everything MM does just seems fine. :-)