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Album Art For Songs Disappear On Flashdrive

kylenguy3n

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Jul 26, 2016
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I have songs on one PC, which I edit the details, including adding missing album artwork to the songs via iTunes. I check the song's details on other applications to see if it went through, such as Windows Media Player, and Microsoft Groove, and everything seems to look Ok.

However, when I upload the songs to a flashdrive, the album artwork does not show up. I tried viewing it on a different PC through my flashdrive as well, and there's no album art on Microsoft Groove and Windows Media Player. However when I open it up on iTunes on that PC, it shows that it is still there. This doesn't mean anything though, because it is still picture-less when I upload it from my flashdrive to my phone.

How can I resolve this? I am trying to save all my songs on the flashdrive as a copy in case something happens to my computer and I lose all my songs, but I wouldn't want to re-add album artwork to it.
 
Windows Media Player (and probably Groove) keep the metadata (artist' names, year, genre, artwork, lyric etc) in separate database unless you choose "Apply media information changes".