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neoelectronaut

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Finally sat down to do some work tonight for the first time since Catalina's launch and I noticed a lot of the artwork that was in iTunes is straight-up missing in the new "Music" app.

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Frustratingly it appears just fine if I hit "Get Info" on any given album. So frustrating.

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Hopefully 10.15.2 fixes it, as I hate to do too much prodding in there. Might be time to look into getting iTunes back for now.
 
Same here had to manually re-add all album art

Plus, I lost my personal Play List and had to redo it. Luckily it was on my iPhone and used it as a template to re-add the songs.
 
Same here, not got to fully fixing it uet either. Quite annoying.. on my phone they all display a wrong image from a podcast.
 
I upgraded to Catalina yesterday and the album artwork issue was the first problem that I noticed. The artwork would flicker on and off or would be non existent . I left the music app running for a few hours and afterwards, the album art was all fixed. From what I read, it may take awhile for all the album art to return depending on the size of your music library.
 
Album art is still an issue. I noticed that the system gives preference to try to fetch all the art from iTunes despite the fact that 98% of my media has it embedded. Music 1.0.2 in 10.15.2 still has the same issue.
Part of this might be due to the fact that I have a huge number of tracks. But setting up iTunes it handles all with aplomb even when importing.
I also noticed that Apple TV is really slow with the same thing. And even the Finder seems to have issues.
I finally managed to correctly port my libraries and am leaving the apps open. AMPArtworkAgent is at 100% and has been since last night with no real sign of success.
I would prefer to have the apps give preference to embedded art so I can override Apple's choices.
 
Finally sat down to do some work tonight for the first time since Catalina's launch and I noticed a lot of the artwork that was in iTunes is straight-up missing in the new "Music" app.

kBPJ3Cb.png


Frustratingly it appears just fine if I hit "Get Info" on any given album. So frustrating.

n02fPYw.png


Hopefully 10.15.2 fixes it, as I hate to do too much prodding in there. Might be time to look into getting iTunes back for now.

It might be related to this https://dougscripts.com/itunes/2019/11/accessing-a-tracks-multiple-artworks/
 
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