TV Application Artwork Cache Bug

[FilthyMuppetInnuendo]

I recently moved my media server from an older Mac to an M2 Mac mini. In this process, I’ve been forced off iTunes and onto Music and TV, so (since Ventura’s versions of these applications cannot even open an iTunes library file anyway) I manually copied all media into the new library by and started over from scratch with them. I absolutely hate the “widescreen” artwork format, but have resigned myself to being forced to use it everywhere now. I manually updated all the artwork for TV shows and movies in the files themselves, but the TV application still shows the traditional movie poster artwork on every file. Opening the info window for each file shows the correct widescreen artwork, but the main view itself doesn’t update, nor does the artwork update on any connected devices (Apple TVs, iDevices accessing the library over Home Sharing, etc.). Where do I go in the filesystem to clear whatever cache TV is using for this artwork (which no longer exists) in order to fix this rendering problem? Thanks.

Or… do I literally have to disassemble the library again and copy in every single file manually all over again…

 

[FilthyMuppetInnuendo]

Nothing, eh? Guess it’s not a widespread problem, but it holds for Catalina through Ventura for me…

 

[FilthyMuppetInnuendo]

Really, no one knows? I don’t want to have to manually copy every single file on my hard drive from one place to another again.

 

[FilthyMuppetInnuendo]

Solved.

If you’re editing your artwork outside of iTunes (“TV”; whatever), you have to open the Get Info panel, hit OK, open it again, go to the Artwork tab, click on the artwork itself and move your cursor around a tiny bit so that the image gets “picked up,” let go of it, and hit OK again. That should reset the appearance of the artwork both in TV and on any Home Sharing devices (iDevices, computers, Apple TVs). You have to do this whole sequence repeatedly for every single item where you changed the artwork, but it works.

And heaven forbid you used something like Subler to edit the metadata–such as the internal title of the file. iTunes (TV; I’ll never call it that) will ignore your changes and rename it to whatever it wants once you’ve made your changes and hit OK. Lunacy.