Album Art screensaver won't work w/iTunes 9

I have my itunes library shared over a network drive, the work around I found was to find my original itunes database file (in my case /Volumes/Cosmos Media Raid/iTunes/iTunes Library), make an alias of the iTunes library file and move it to my users music folder ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library. (I also removed the "alias" part from the name) The only file I have in my users itunes music folder is the alias of the itunes library file.

I found the same as many of you adding to this post. I have my itunes music stored on an external drive as it is over 120Gb. I have the Itunes preference set to look at the correct folder on my external drive.
I noticed the itunes folder in my music folder, I moved this from the path and reset my screen saver option to the Itunes Artwork option, this created a new itunes folder structure under my music folder again. Obviously not containing any music. I deleted this folder and the folder I had previously moved.

I created an alias for my Itunes library on the external drive, renamed the alias to 'iTunes' and copied into my music folder.

Restarted the screen saver and all is working - simple workaround.

The screen saver should read the iTunes preference file and use the library location stated in there.

Same for me. Its just not working. My music resides in ~/music/music_library not ~/music/itunes. I don't have an extra itunes music folder like some of you guys. I just get the "you dont have any itunes artwork" message. I must say this certainly is pants.

Add another to the list. I no longer have my album art for my screen saver. I keep my music on an external hard drive, and did not have an issue until iTunes 9.0. The workaround with the duplicate album art folder did not work for me either.

Add me to the list of people who can't get this to work. I have my iTunes library on a separate drive. Put an alias of it in my Music Folder (Hard-drive/Users/Me/Music/iTunes.) Still doesn't work. I didn't have this problem until I installed iTunes 9.

I have pretty much the exact same problem with a few twists. First, I upgraded to ITunes 9 and then I upgraded to Snow Leopard - all in the same day. Afterward the ITunes screensaver would only display the same three or four albums over and over again. I have over 800+ albums all with art so I knew something was wrong.

My first attempt was to remove the Album Art folder in /music/itunes which simply caused the screen saver to display no album art at all. The folder was recreated, but it was empty at this point. When I resync'd my ipod, a Cache folder was created in the Album Art folder with tons of .itc files. Unfortunately the screensaver still thinks that there is no album art. I tried resetting the screensaver with no luck either.

Here's where it gets a little strange.... first off, all of my artwork is in the mp3 files (I manually added them a while back). However, if I go to "Get Album Artwork" in itunes, the screensaver starts working again but only with the artwork that was downloaded and only displaying the same three or four covers over and over. So there appears to be some issue with the screensaver reading the artwork from the files themselves instead of using what ITunes downloads.

At this point I have given up, but I would like a fix eventually. Anyone out there at Apple watching these threads? Or does anyone know how to alert Apple to this bug? I filed a "feedback" on ITunes but I'm not confident anyone is going to see it.

Hi guys, just wanted to add my 2 pennies worth, as I had this issue.

I noticed my iTunes library was stored in ~/documents/music/iTunes/iTunes/..

I simply moved the contents of this folder to the parent iTunes folder so the path was now ~/documents/music/iTunes/..

You can then delete the empty iTunes folder.

Start iTunes by holding down the cmd key and choose the new location of the iTunes Library.

Hey presto - iTunes artwork should now show up in your screensaver.

Hope this helps.

not only no screenaver also lost a lot of covers ...

all this since 10.6.1 😟

After installing iTunes 9, my Album Art folder disappeared from list of screensaver choices. But I got it back quickly...

I opened iTunes and selected:

Advanced>Get Album Artwork

It did a very fast download/refresh (2000 album covers in minutes) and then I reopened the screensavers list in System Preferences and it was back

yes, i did the same, but several covers dissapeared ..

"Add another to the list. I no longer have my album art for my screen saver. I keep my music on an external hard drive, and did not have an issue until iTunes 9.0. The workaround with the duplicate album art folder did not work for me either. "

Just updated to iTunes 9.0.1 and all seems to be working again.

me too..did the new update and all is swell again...I guess the feedback form really does go somewhere besides the round file!

THANKS! This worked for me, after plist, restarts, removing folders, etc didn't.