iOS 13 Music App album art is incorrect.

Fixed with 13.3.1!

Yes, I updated to iOS 13.3..1 and all is well. I even got brave, deleted a couple of playlists (multiple albums) and it happily synced with correct artwork. Back in business!

CS Music uses your iTunes library and playlists - you manage your music just as you do now. On your phone it uses the Music app underneath - CS is simply a different presentation layer. This is why they tell you not to remove the Music app.

If you're willing to splurge $3, install the app and all the music already on your phone will be accessible. Its very straightforward and simple to use if you just want to listen to your library and have it stored on your phone. And your playlist artwork will be correct.

Not sure on Car Play - but I'm sure the developer can share that info with you.

On iOS i have downloaded “Cs Music Player” ... works perfect with all correct artwork. It’s not the greatest fix but it works perfect and plays through the music app. Just something for the time being until they actually try to fix the bug, if ever.

On iOS i have downloaded “Cs Music Player” ... works perfect with all correct artwork. It’s not the greatest fix but it works perfect and plays through the music app. Just something for the time being until they actually try to fix the bug, if ever.

They really need to fix this asap. The only way I can get the albums to copy over correctly is to wipe all the music off my phone and then add it again. The artwork issue happens when you then try to add new music to your phone, it grabs random cover art from albums already on your phone, iPad, etc... so if you move everything at one time, initially, it should look right. Adding additional albums becomes the problem. Which we all would want to do as new music comes out and we want to add it.

Hi again,

I think I'm beginning to understand the underlying issue here: the iTunes GUI doesn't automatically push changes to the library's metadata, so we need to do a 'manual push' to avoid cover-art weirdness on the iPhone. So, for every change made inside the iTunes GUI, toggle the iTunes > Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Keep iTunes Media folder organised setting before syncing.

For example, if you add a song to a playlist... toggle the setting before syncing. If you change the cover art of an album... toggle the setting before syncing. If you re-order some tracks in a playlist... toggle the setting before syncing. You get the idea. :-)

I'd love to hear if this works for you too.

Kind regards,

Jason Paris

EltonOutOfTheCloset.com

I might be wrong about this, but it's interesting that you mention Talking Heads. I recently experienced this same problem, after adding the song "Love → Building on Fire" to my iPhone from my Music library.

I suspect that "→" character might be the culprit. I changed the title, and the filename, of that song to "Love Goes to Building on Fire" (apparently how you're supposed to pronounce the title), deleted all the music off my phone, and reloaded everything back onto the phone, and it solved the issue.

A weird possible cause to the problem, but I finally solved it - maybe that's what's happening with you too?

"This is not my beautiful album art!"

Upgraded to Catalina and re-synced all the playlists on my phone after the upgrade and my issue has been resolved. All my playlists aren now displaying the correct art.

I finally found a fix that worked for me. So far I’ve only tried it on the TV app since the artwork on my movies and tv shows were messed up too. If you delete the app from your iPhone then add it back, all of the correct artwork shows up. Haven’t tried this for this music app yet but I am sure it will work. Since only about 20 of my songs are messed up I’m not even bothering. Let me know if it works for your songs. Good luck!

On iOS i have downloaded “Cs Music Player” ... works perfect with all correct artwork. It’s not the greatest fix but it works perfect and plays through the music app. Just something for the time being until they actually try to fix the bug, if ever.

I had the same problem as everyone else. The Music Albums on my MacBook Air were not on my iPhone XS Max. Some of the album covers were on the wrong artist or playlist. While connected to my MacBook Air and in Finder I deleted all the music, did a hard restart on my iPhone, and then reinstalled all the music. Once the reinstalled was completed, all the album artworks were restored to their proper location.

There is a lot of suggestion on this forum. I tried several until I came across one that worked. Please, continue to try different options.

iOS13.2.3 also didn’t fix this problem. So I just cleared all playlists from my iPhone, and sync back again. All good, at least for now.

It’s resolved in 13.3.1. Beta :)

I'm experiencing the same issue. I'm so glad I've found this thread as I've discussed this with Apple Support on Twitter and it felt like I was the only one!

At first, I thought it only took place during a sync with iTunes but the playlist art alters randomly, always 'choosing' art from some other existing playlist. It can even change if I close the app and reopen. This happens in 'Recently Added' and the list under 'Playlists' but is always the correct artwork when I go to any album and album tracks itself.

It's true that selecting album art from another source (eg, a photo of the album cover from elsewhere) and changing it to that under 'edit' does fix the problem for that playlist but I find the four album cover artwork useful for identifying compilations and it's not so easy to create those.

If I do look at the app's library whilst syncing with iTunes, I can see the various album's artwork changing back and forth. Here's hoping for a fix in iOS 13.1.