Why doesnt the iPod show album art

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I have the iPod 160GB Classic Black. In my music library, each music album is organized into folder on my hard disk, each folder having album art. Why doesnt my ipod display that album art while playing? Just to clarify, the problem is only with some albums, not all.

EDIT: Is there a specific name that the jpeg file should have?

Best Answer

Storing the art in file id3 tags is the only method. Yes, doing it via iTunes is tedious, it can be automated though.
Mass taggers exist on OSX, software such as beets or bliss. However they download cover art from online websites (google images, discogs...).
If you're interested only in copying your folder image to mp3 tags, I'm not aware of an existing tool that do that in batch mode. But a python script could be written for that purpose quite easily using mutagen library.