album artwork in Catalina Music

I updated to Catalina and my Album Artwork in Music is missing. The images are embedded in the file since I can preview the image in Finder (file info). Also, in Music the player shows the image that is saved with the files. I did an Album Artwork search through Music but most Album Artwork can't be found. Any ideas?

Posted on Oct 7, 2019 7:09 PM

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Oct 9, 2019 5:54 PM in response to NIKMS

Just wondering if anyone had the same or similar experience as me:


I have a relatively large library of about 30K sounds. Probably 80% rips from way back in the day and some current Apple Music stuff. It took about ten minutes of me scrolling around and watching the artwork pop back in before it was pretty much all good.


Then it all vanished.


Then the app crashed.


Now it seems to be slowly popping back in a random album here or there. I made a smart playlist for songs were album art = false and it is ever so slowly ticking downward. I'm worried it's just going to vanish again once it's done (again).


I'm on 2014 Mac Mini, I forget the exact specs, but whatever the $999 was that year.

Oct 17, 2019 7:23 AM in response to NIKMS

I updated to Catalina/Music and am experiencing the following issues with the move from ITunes to Music. 1. The “add to library” is gone, so adding music (mp3) from outside sources is not as simple as selecting “add to library” and then the desired file. I typically download full albums, so the only way that I’ve found to get-around this, is to double-click each song within the file; a painstaking task. 2. The biggest issue (and I’ve had the album artwork issues that everyone else appears to be having), is the artwork and any tags you make to music obtained via outside sources, is no longer saved to the original file. It will save within Music, but if you have tagged/added artwork to songs/albums AND you want to move these to another computer, it no longer saves to original file, and you have to re-do everything again. Hopefully, Apple will eventually fix this issue.

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