Album art in Music for Catalina

I have over 4000 albums in my library. I might have a dozen that display artwork... The mini player shows track album art, but not in album view. Here's a screenshot:

All of my album covers appear to be in this folder:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.APMArtworkAgent/Data/Documents

They just don't sync with the album correctly.

Hey Folks - just curious is it not possible anymore to see the Album Artwork in the Songs view under (Library) on the left column? It used to be an option to select "Always Show Album Artwork" in this view & now it's gone. This is awful for DJ's who often use visual recognition of album artwork when running down the list of millions songs in our iTunes to select for our gigs! Only seeing the little artwork box at the top does nothing because the thumbnail is so small!

Correct me if I'm wrong.., if the album art is embedded in the music files it should show up in finder when the file is selected?

I've illustrated that the move from Mojave to Catalina has removed artwork embedded in music files with the attached image showing the same song in my library after on the left and before on the right, (sorry for the mix up in left right before/after standards).

To me this is a bug that needs to be addressed before people should move from Mojave to Catalina. If that is incorrect thinking please do not hesitate to correct my error.

I just now went into music>preferences and turned off Automatically Update Artwork, and slowly but surely, it started adding the tagged artwork. In the time that it took me to type that first sentence, when I went back to Music, art that was there a few seconds ago is gone again.

With last update "column browser" feature is back but the option to show album art in songs view still missing.

in iTunes was possibile with flag in"always show artwork" options.

Now in song view mode you view only rows of plain text..

I write a feedback with the request of restoring the album cover art view in song view

This was the perfect visualization

Was all of your album art embedded? The Music app on Catalina likely has a new approach to indexing album art from iTunes so you may need to wait for it to catalogue it all. If you play an album in iTunes does the artwork show up in the grid?

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Embedded artwork lives in the tag of a track along with details such as the name, album, artist, track no. etc. iTunes or the new Apple Music app can also fetch artwork from the iTunes Store. Tracks with embedded artwork should retain it when moved from one app to another or to a new computer. If the artwork isn't embedded then Music will likely need to try to locate the right image in the store. You can select albums without images, right-click and use Get Album Artwork from the context menu.

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I have all the art work in my computer’s music app, but on my iPhone I have many missing. Don’t know what to do.

I mean if it has all the art work showing up on my computer why is it missing so many on my phone?

I have this issue as well. The loading artwork message is still in the lower left corner of the music app on mac. How long does this take on average with over 500G of music? All covers were embedded and showing slowly. The app has crashed and restarted twice.

It is slowing everything else down. Let me know thanks.

On mine iTunes downloads seem ok. It is lots of cover art I have added. It doesn’t show up in the information window, but does display in the now playing thumbnail.

now we have lost column browsing artwork is even more prominent

Hi flipswitch. Could you advise how you added you're own missing album cover art for those albums where not available on new music app, even when right clicking and choosing 'add album artwork'

All my album artwork was in iTunes in Mojave, but now 'missing' 250

thanks

It is very very slow to load the artwork. Take a very long time "Loading artwork...". And finally it completes, I quit the Music app, bring it backup, it "Loading artwork..." all over again.

My songs are all in my hard drive and they have complete artwork (no need to get artwork from server and in fact I turned off getting artwork from server).

So, this new rewritten app is bad. Like back in old days when we used old version of iTunes, it was pretty bad until many new releases.

I guess Apple quality is dropping. They are like Microsoft and have us to help testing and ironing out their bugs for them.

So sad...

Hi,

Firstly, I had to search the internet to find missing album art. Once I found them and saved them I opened the Music app on my Macbook,

I right clicked on an album I wanted to add the album art to, select Get Info, then Artwork, and Add Artwork. It will open Finder and you select the album art which you have downloaded.

it will take some time if you have many albums. Once you had downloaded the new album art and added it with the process I mentioned, sync your device.