Lost Album Artwork after Crash

[cleetus]

I have been storing my iTunes music, over 100GB, on an external firewire 800 drive. After a while my drive had issues and I just had to reconfigure my entire drive, meaning copy the music and reformat the external. In the process of moving the music around I seemed to have lost my album artwork. Where is that kept and how do I recover, if possible?
Thanks!

 

[baggss]

If it was artwork that iTunes found and added on it's own, then it should be kept as a separate graphic file with the music. I'm not sure how to make it all come back other than to tell iTunes to go back out and find artwork for it all again.

To keep this from happening again, use an app like MPFreaker to find artwork. It embeds the artwork in the file itself, iTunes does not.

 

[cleetus]

Thanks for the info on Freaker. Most of it I had to dig up from the 'net, not iTunes.
So is it lost?

 

[baggss]

Look in the file where the music is on the hard drive. It may be in there, otherwise it may be lost.