Album art in Music for Catalina

That's all well in good if the only thing you have on your computer is top 40 tracks, but I have tons of albums that Itunes doesn't even sell that were ripped from vinyl. Itunes does not have the artwork for those. Yes, my artwork was embedded, and now Apple Music just shows a blank cover. When you play the songs, the artwork shows in the mini player, so it is there still embedded. Apple did not think this all the way through before releasing this application. My computer sat for days "loading artwork" and during that time it was unusable since Music was using 95% CPU and eating all of the memory. It utilized so much memory that my iMac kernel panicked twice and shutdown. Some album art also got changed to some version that Apple has in their database, which is incorrect. The Blues Brothers Movie Soundtrack shows a pair of sunglasses, not John Belushi and Dan Akroyd sitting on the hood of their cop car. This is because Apple has many holes in their music database. Now we are really paying for that. After loading forever, the process just quit, and now nothing is happening, leaving hundreds of unresolved files. Is there any way to force it to start the process again.? That way I at least will not have to find hundreds of album covers.

I have found that several of the tracks on albums, possibly all of my 53K's worth of songs have an extra 16/17 seconds worth of song at the end!!!!!! SO for example on Sgt Pepper the penultimate track should be 1:21 but it cuts out and plays the last 17 seconds over again. Very disconcerting to say the least!!! This has to be a bug, shoddy coding or whatever Apple wants to pass it off as!! Interesting thing is the same track plays normally on my phone, so synching music isn't being affected, thank god. So how do we get Apple to sort this out FAST!!!

OMG. I did. and it also contains albums WITH album artwork. And I am pretty sure this is some of the old artwork I made myself......

the story continues :-)

I considered going back to Mojave, but then I am stuck with reminders which do not sync with my iPhone...

Let's all cheer out: Apple, Apple, Apple forever.

What I do NOT have is excessive CPU usage. it is about 35%

Alternative, for both iTunes/Music and iPhone app, there are plenty. Just google it. (I don’t have any recommendations). However, to have a seamless integration between all Apple devices, I think there may not be one out there. I use iTunes Match and it really save a lot of disc space in all my Apple devices. This tight me back to Apple software.

I lost a lot of cover art for albums I ripped from real CDs that I own. When they were ripped, iTunes could not locate cover art for them, and I had to laboriously scan in the covers (laborious because the CDs are stored in very dense loose-leaf collections ring-binders in the house, but I keep the jackets in deep storage).

I'm pretty depressed that iTunes/Music would opt to delete existing cover art when it itself had found no replacement. "Do no harm" always seems to be the better paradigm.

I've done a little searching around but I have never invested any time in how iTunes/Music stores its data, and I have tripped over no obvious subdirectory of TIFFs or JPGs of previous cover art.

Time Machine is not an option -- since I don't have the Music internals to explain how this happened, I'd be jumping into the flames to just bulk-restore my old library in place. I'm almost certain that would make things worse.

Thanks for that. I'm not a techie and i'm sitting on 1200 albums on Mojave 10.14.6. I stupidly upgraded to Catalina but fortunately with the help of Time Machine and a hard drive back up reverted back to Mojave. I had a look at Dougscript but wasn't sure which version to use. There's a lot of headings there that are very similar. Can you help? Thanks in advance

Hello,

Same issue, I've lost over 1/3 of album artwork from CD's I ripped into iTunes YEARS ago. Before I spend hundreds of hours replacing album artwork for library over 90 GB, can this be recovered from a Time Machine backup prior to Catalina? If so, please provide idiot proof instructions please. I've already tried "get album artwork" in iMusic a couple of times no success. Some of the artwork that did get loaded with iMusic isn't correct. Same album name but entirely different artist, extremely weird.

One other thing I noticed, on my MacBook Pro my iTunes (OS Mojave with all updates) was about 4 GB larger than my iMac iMusic OS Catalina. Did a quick search, all my movies, TV shows, Podcasts, were present. Is there a way to recover entire iTunes library into iMusic? Again, idiot proof instructions would help. I'm not sure what exactly was missing in that 4 GB. I can't image there would be 4 GB difference between the two app's alone.

Any assistance on this issue is much appreciated.

This seems to be getting worse rather than better after the recent OS update.

I was lucky enough not to lose all my artwork after installing Catalina but trying to edit artwork now is creating other problems. WHY would removing the artwork from a track add 25 seconds (not just 16 now) to the time signature?

Come on Apple, PLEASE sort this out!

I have given up on this version of itunes and have gone back to a previous version. It cost me some money but I don't care. Apple really screwed up the latest version of itunes now called music. I could not use it. Constantly crashing. Album art disappearing. Unable to add music. I'm not going to update for a while and let Apple sort this colossal mess out.

I've noticed this and more. After opening, and having music crash several times, the artwork loading sat there for hours. I let it sit overnight and more than 1/3 of my music never loaded the artwork. I've checked the actual music files and the artwork on some of them is attached but will not carry over. When I have actually gone in and uploaded new covers they do not save upon closing the app.

Also, "Get Album Artwork," even on albums that the store carries, is not working. I have lost many custom album covers from friends' bands and what not and am seriously annoyed that this has happened.

How do you do this? I just updated and have no album art. I'm furious. Buy library is a combination of downloaded stuff and my own stuff but I meticulously manage album art work and I am about the have a melt down.

Since upgrading from Mojave to Catalina (also latest version) I have this annoying bug: 20% of my entire albums/singles lost their artwork. I hope Apple will fix this because I spent a lot of time in ordering my entire library.

now instead of Album artwork I have gray apple note, even in Mini Player.

I too have contacted support as respects this item.

I am delaying upgrading to Catalina until this is sorted. Like everyone else, I love my music and associated accurate artwork, and have absolutely no desire to research and reload countless albums. If anyone develops a sure fire fix, please post! Thanks to all.

This is a HUGE problem for me as well. I have thousands of artists with multiple albums each and Songs was my default view. I can't tell the albums apart easily because there is no artwork displayed!! Why the **** would Apple do this? Luckily I can downgrade to El Capitan. But I shouldn't have to.

My problem is a bit different, and I would love a solution! I just upgraded to Catalina, and all of the artwork appears correctly in the Music app on my new iMac, but did not sync correctly to my iPhone 11 Pro. Also, there are songs that won't play and display messages that I don't have permission, yet they appear as normal in my Music library on the desktop (and are from CDs that I own and burned into my library!). Before upgrading my phone and desktop, these songs played without problems.