iTunes 'Album Artwork Not Modifiable'
I encountered this message displayed in the album art window of iTunes today. After some googling I found that it might be the result of trying to add album art to songs on ejected disks, or songs on a CD, but neither applied to me. After some investigation I discovered it was because that particular album was in the ogg format!
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Comments
by: artemis at January 20, 2005 11:22 PM
It's puzzling, that's for sure 
It might be a permissions issue, compare the permissions with an mp3 which you can add artwork to.
Another possibility is convert it to an AIFF and then re-import it into iTunes (so it creates a new mp3 file).
Good luck!
by: thoughton at January 22, 2005 2:47 AM
Had a similar problem. Source files were read only. Unchecked read-only box in properties and was then able to make changes as needed
by: Russ at October 25, 2005 11:56 AM
Thanks, guys: This thread helped me a lot. I also unchecked the read only box in the file properties, then it worked.
Nice!
by: Monster at June 11, 2006 1:30 PM
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I'm experiencing the same problem... but my album is for sure in mp3 format
. It's an album extracted from an archive. I've also tried to convert the songs to mp3 (just to be sure) and neither that worked.