MP3 icon no longer displays artwork in finder

Same problem here, but running 10.6.3 not .4

It seems to stick sometimes but not always. I got it to stick the last time by adding some ID3 tags AFTER adding the artwork, and then also trying to convert the ID3 tags to a different version. Don't know which step make it stick but they stuck...

strangely though, copying the file from its location in the finder to somewhere else resulted in the icon to no longer show the artwork... very strange.

yes, there seems to be a sporadic nature to it. I've also seen it working after upgrading iTunes, sometime later it didn't (same file location though, all music files are stored on afp share). still have to try to figure out why it really stops working.

Same here. This issue is driving me absolutely nuts!

Everything was working fine a few hours ago before I updated Itunes to 9.2. Then, my artwork stopped displaying correctly in both Finder and Quick Look.

I have completely uninstalled Itunes 9.2 and reinstalled Itunes 9.1.1. IT DOES NOT HELP.

The Apple/Itunes people need to get this fixed asap. I've spent a lot of time organizing and adding album art to all of my music files. It's really annoying me to not have the artwork displayed.... By the way, I want to note that when I transfer the files to another laptop running Windows (without Itunes 9.2), the artwork shows up just fine in the folders and in all the music players (MediaMonkey, Windows Media Player, etc). So far, it seems as though only Finder and Quick Look are affected...

Happening here too...

I use XLD for embedding artwork when I convert to m4a for iTunes.

I even emailed the guy wondering if XLD was broken.

Needs fix; quicker the better...

Same here. Also i just opened an mp3 folder and got neither the melody icon and the CPU usage grown up to 100%. I couldn't use my mac anymore and it couldn't be turned off. The high CPU usage was due to iTunes. I forced the turn off of my mac and had to repaid the disk too....

I won't repeat myself, except to say that this issue isn't confined to 10.6, which is why I posted a response in the general iTunes forum.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11776871#11776871

Suffice it to say, it's not a metadata problem, but in the method in which the Finder gets the resources to draw the previews. It's not directly from the files' metadata, as one might assume, but from the artwork cache that 9.2 either isn't writing completely, or the Finder isn't reading completely.

I know that applications like iTunes are complicated to change and things do happen, particularly when you are rushing to bring out a new cell phone and tablet computer. But I don't understand the total and complete silence on this issue from Apple. It would seem to me that they would at least acknowledge the issue and put an ETA on the fix.

Same problem here after updating iTunes to 9.2

Same problem here. This one really annoys me. I just recently got into the habit of embedding mp3 cover artwork.

So... In my last post I said that I completely deleted itunes 9.2, installed itunes 9.1 and the problem was still there.

I had some other issues with my MacBook anyway, so I decided to go ahead and use the recovery CD to reformat it to factory settings... It is now back to the way it was when I first bought it: running Mac OS 10.6.3 and itunes 9.1. Guess what? Album art issue is gone! I see all the album art icons in their glory!!! Now, I'm going to leave it like this and NOT upgrade anything until I see Apple address/acknowledge the issue and release a fix.

It took a few hours of my time to reformat to factory settings, to reinstall my programs, and to tweak all my application preferences. I wouldn't recommend doing it if this mp3 album art issue doesn't annoy you TOO much; however, if there are other problems wrong with your Mac anyway, go for it! =P

By the way, are we completely certain that the mp3 album art issue is with itunes 9.2 upgrade, and not with the Mac OS X upgrade from 10.6.3 to 10.6.4?

<<By the way, are we completely certain that the mp3 album art issue is with itunes 9.2 upgrade, and not with the Mac OS X upgrade from 10.6.3 to 10.6.4?>>

I am running 10.5.8 and I am experiencing the mp3 album art iss, so I don't believe that it is a problem with the upgrade to 10.6.4.

<<I am running 10.5.8 and I am experiencing the mp3 album art iss, so I don't believe that it is a problem with the upgrade to 10.6.4.>>

Thanks =)

I brought this up on iLounge.com, as a comment on their review of iTunes 9.2. I got the following response:

"+Bob Brown (#18): Although I’ve heard several other reports of the same thing, it doesn’t seem to be a problem everywhere. We had no album art issues on any of our test machines or even our own personal iTunes libraries, even across multiple platforms. Although our personal libraries are all on Mac OS X, we do put iTunes through the paces on Windows as well. The artwork conversion process is likely the culprit, and the artwork itself may still be fine with only the cache having been corrupted. If you delete the “Album Artwork” folder from your iTunes library this will cause iTunes to re-generate the cache of all of the artwork you’ve added manually, which should still be embedded in the files themselves. Artwork that was downloaded by iTunes automatically will have to be downloaded again, however, as this does not get embedded."+

I have not tried this solution yet (I am not at my home computer), but I thought that I would pass this information along.

I just gave this a try - deleted, and let iTunes build the cache (you have to wait until it is finished)

It doesn't work - I used Get album artwork, which works. However when I embed into the album with an applescript, or if I manually copy it to the whole album, the files still show up with no artwork in Finder.

Moreover, because this didn't work, I highlighted the whole album and cleared the artwork, and I also used the "Clear downloaded artwork", but the tracks still showed up has having artwork in iTunes. I did this 3 times before the artwork went away. This suggests to me that iTunes is very confused indeed.

Already reported to apple.
but on the plus side, iTunes scrolling is now wicked fast, and the issue with Music Videos being grouped as "Unknown album" is now fixed.