album artwork in Catalina Music

Yes, very easy, it works fine.

Thanks TwistyDigits, option 1 worked for me - saved me a lot of work. Of course my library is still a mess, but that's own laziness ;-). At least artwork I had is now showing.

Any improvement with 10.15.6?

No :(

Thanks, I tried this but unfortunately it did not work? How do I reverse the changes I made in step 1?

By the way if you are signed in to Catalina Podcasts you are automatically signed into your ITunes account in Music. So make sure you are not signed there if you want to stay local.

I err. Pamela Stephenson's contribution is an advert for AmEx. But see Irish comic Dave Allen's "BBC Complaints Department" for another "helpline solution".

Exactly.

As for me, I will keep delaying buying new Macs (I own severals) as many years as possible, just to avoid Catalina and this buggy Music app.

What a shame.

Appreciated.

Tried that months ago. Didn't work.

Rebuilding everything from scratch (importing old playlists) to avoid this half iTunes / half Apple Music disastrous hybrid moving forward.

What can we use instead of iTunes?

Guess now the question is, is this issue of album art going be the same on Big Sir roll out? I would guess yes.

This sort of work should not be needed on a Mac please sort it out

Has anyone tried to upgrade directly from Mojave to Big Sur ?

Some forums report that this way the issue would be solved...

Thank you

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.

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.