After musicbrainz has done its magic collecting all the metadata. Sometimes the cover art is missing.
What I currently do, is google the album and use windows snipping tool to grab the image. Then drag and drop the image onto each file track and then resave the album.
I can’t seem to drop it onto the album so all the songs get it. So I have been doing it individually, little time consuming though it gets the job done. Is there a quicker way??
Have you considered adding the images to musicbrainz?
I mean, it isn’t going to help you. But it will help the database in general.
Maybe you can try Jaikoz. In Jaikoz it’s possible to add the image (front and/or back cover(s)) to all tracks of an album at once.
I have though, I’m not overly fused on what picture i use. Sometime I will just put a picture of the band/ singer. Doesn’t mean its the correct cover art
That worked rdswift, I was doing it the wrong way, thanks again
Excellent! Glad I could help.
@rdswift’s answer is correct, but I discovered that it only works when you drop your image file onto the album cover slot before adding your music files to the album, in order for it to be automatically applied to all the music files when you add them.
If you already have your files attached to the album, you’ll have to remove them before dropping the cover, or you’ll be stuck with having to apply the same cover individually to every single track.
(I’m using Picard 2.2.3 on Windows 8.1)
I’m pretty sure I’ve added tracks to the album after artwork as been applied on a regular basis.
Just to be clear, is this on the right or left?
On the former, I’m just not recalling ever having issues with tracks and any metadata not being applied where as on the latter, yes- anything that was not present/selected when a change was made will not inherit changes.
Due to the nature of the way Picard works I wouldn’t see that as a bug. The Right is all about MBDB values with regard to a release. You’re building that release to save it. Yes tracks / tags can individually be selected and set to use edited data or their original values as an exception.
The Left side is the workbench and shouldn’t be doing any kind of change on it’s own.
This would be a bug, yes. I haven’t tested this myself yet. I think rdswift had already added a ticket for this.
EDIT: The issue is at https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-1269 , and @edgeztv discovered it before me 
But as I commented there I can’t reproduce this. Applying cover art to the album and having it used for all the files works for me, no matter if I do drop the new art before or after matching the files.
I always do it after matching the files, and it seems to work for me.
Me either, it’s always worked no matter what order when working with the Right side.
Don’t “fix” it on the Left though. An Album is one thing, but a Cluster may not always be an Album 
I’m having a similar problem. Even though the MusicBrainz shows an album image, it doesn’t always download, and without an image won’t save the album. If there is an override where I save it without the album art that would be fine. If fixing is also as simple as downloading it manually and dragging and dropping it into the cover area, that’s an extra step but doable. However when I drag it into the cover area, it becomes a second image behind the first and still won’t save. (I hope I don’t have to rename it to the expected name and place it in the temp directory.) I’m using Windows 11, Picard 2.9.1.
E: 18:19:03,893 ui/item.error_append:108: <MP3File ‘Lighting Out For The Territories.mp3’>: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘C:\Users\davew\AppData\Local\Temp\picardwid9e6s_.jpg’
E: 18:19:26,255 ui/infodialog.display_artwork:213: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “coverart\image.py”, line 399, in data
File “coverart\image.py”, line 121, in data
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\Users\davew\AppData\Local\Temp\picardwid9e6s.jpg’
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “ui\infodialog.py”, line 205, in display_artwork
File “coverart\image.py”, line 401, in data
picard.coverart.image.CoverArtImageIOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\Users\davew\AppData\Local\Temp\picardwid9e6s.jpg’
E: 18:24:30,249 ui/infodialog.display_artwork:213: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “coverart\image.py”, line 399, in data
File “coverart\image.py”, line 121, in data
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\Users\davew\AppData\Local\Temp\picardwid9e6s.jpg’
The question mark on the image and the error message indicate that the temporary file in which Picard stores the downloaded cover art is missing. Do you have something that might delete temporary files from "'C:\Users\davew\AppData\Local\Temp"? Or is maybe the disk nearly full?
It could be help if you enable debug mode in Help > View Error/Debug log. Then restart Picard and try to save a file where the cover art did not load. Share the full debug log. Maybe there is already something interested logged when loading the artwork.
