Album Art screensaver won't work w/iTunes 9

I'm having the exact problem. All my artwork is displaying in itunes, but the snow leopard screensaver says that there isn't any. I also have my itunes library in a custom folder instead of the default location.

Yeah Im having the same problem you guys, I loved that screensaver 😟, you would think the would test these things. Mines also in a custom location. File bug reports.

It works on my iMac, but it displays the same album art in every slot. Anyone else seeing this?

add me to the list of people seeing the "iTunes library does not contain any artwork"

another thing to note; all of my mp3s actually have the art embedded in the file.


dann

no problems with mine

Yeah, mine wont work either. Apple what gives? Are we in need to update the screensaver or is a patch for iTunes 9 in the works?

having the same problem also

Hi,

I was having the same problem and think I have a solution. Our iTunes folder is in our shared folder not in the original music folder.

My wife was charging her iPod and left the computer running when I noticed the album artwork screensaver displaying proudly. On a hunch I compared our iTunes folders in our Music Folder (~/music/itunes) and noticed I had an extra "iTunes music" folder within. Since my music is stored elsewhere it was empty. I believe the screen saver was searching this empty folder for artwork. I moved it to the trash and started the screen saver preference and lo and behold it now works.

Please check the folder for content before deleting it. For me it was empty. My daughter had the same issues also and trashing this file worked.

All the best,

Shaun.

Amazing! It fixed everything, thank you.

Well spotted. I was in the same boat, with a spurious iTunes Music folder having been created in the default location because I stupidly launched iTunes without first mounting my external drive. Deleting this resolved the screensaver issue.

Many thanks for the solution.

Hi,

Hmm, just so you know my Album Artwork folder is not empty. I believe iTunes uses this folder to index artwork to make it quicker to load when opening iTunes. Perhaps the screensaver uses this folder too? I'm just thinking out loud here....

I presume your artwork shows up fine in iTunes?

Good luck,

Shaun.

In addition to the steps described above, I found I had to change the options for the screensaver before it rediscovered my artwork - changing the number of rows worked for me.

having the same problem deleted the extra folder did not fix the issue for me. would really like to have my screensaver back.

Also worked for me. Just deleted the folder and screensaver now works properly.