Help, can't add cover art to HandBrake files in iTunes

[JohnO]

Hi,

This may not be a HandBrake issue at all, however I thought it would be a good place to ask as it is related to files I have converted with HandBrake.

A few months ago, prior to HandBrake 0.9.5, I ripped all of my Lost Episodes and put them in iTunes for access via my Apple TV. Once in iTunes, I was able to go into each episode and add cover art without any problem.

Fast forward to the present I am now using 0.9.5 to convert movies and TV episodes to put on a new media server. The problem is that for some reason, I am unable to add cover art within iTunes. I can select a Movie/TV episode in iTunes, select 'Get Info', go to the 'Artwork' section and paste in a jpg. However, once I close the Get Info window, the artwork disappears. I can not get the artwork to 'stick'.

I have repaired permissions (although the media files are not on my boot drive) and have done disk repair on both the boot drive and media drive.

I am at a loss to figure out what has happened since I imported all of those "Lost" episodes and now that could be causing this problem.

Anybody have an idea???

Regards,

John

[rogue23]

If you restart iTunes, does the artwork appear? This is definitely not a Handbrake problem.

[rjsherman1]

I would concur that it's not an issue with handbrake ...

but I might take a second and suggest using MetaX to insert your cover art - it's quick and you could insert the cover art before adding the file to iTunes, frankly
MetaX allows you to insert some metadata that iTunes does not allow you access to.

[JohnO]

Hi,

Sorry I have not been around for a while. Thanks for the replys.

Yes, I have quit iTunes and restarted but the artwork does not show up.

This used to work like a charm. I can not figure out why it has stopped working. I can change other meta data this way, just not the artwork.

I did not really think that this was due to HandBrake, however I did think that someone here might have run into the same issue and had a solution.

Anyone else seen this behavior?

Regards,

[buskeyl]

I had this problem when I added the file to the Itunes library as a .mp4 file extension. I renamed it to .m4v, and reimported to Itunes and I was good to go... Or so is seemed anyway...

Lee