Album art in Music for Catalina

Having the same issue. More than 3/4 of my albums have missing art, and funny enough, even files that were from Amazon MP3 purchases in the day are not displaying album art and the cover art is baked into the file itself when I view it in the Finder.

I had the same issue. Quite by accident I found my all of artwork hidden in a sub folder in the music folder. My be worth a search to see if I’m the odd one or if is a common thing. It was arranged in perfect order, just took ages to important back to the tracks in music, yes I did one at a time.

My artwork all seems to be embedded, but I'm wondering how many days/weeks/months it will take to update/catalog all of these files? I'm not interested in the, "Get Album Artwork" function as I've spent over a decade ensuring the artwork that I want is associated with each file.

Is there a way to force Music to index all of this embedded artwork? I tried selecting all of my music and changing an attribute of the files, (equalizer) but that doesn't seem to have worked.

Is there a way to prepare an iTunes library for this problem prior to moving to Catalina/Music? I moved my library on a backup machine because I don't trust major updates like this anymore.., so is there any way to pre condition my library on my main machine before I, "upgrade"?

I AM still having similar problem with missing album artwork. Approx 50% of my (considerable amount) of albums are without artwork since I upgraded to Catalina yesterday. Left ITUNES open all day; but no joy. Furthermore when selecting "GET ALBUM ARTWORK" from drop down menu - error message received every time for every missing album. No problem like this for any previous upgrade.

I waited for 3 days for album art to load. Now, it seems to be finished, but I'm missing A LOT. I spent years in completing my music library and have added most of the album art manually. Clicking on hundreds of albums to "get albumart" doesn't really help me. In addition, Music has caused Catalina to crash 4 times now and caused an automatic reboot... This is really annoying! As another user mentioned I will avoid major upgrades like Catalina in the future (should have known...).

Further to these issues, I've found albums which have cover art in my pre Catalina library and that art is lost in Catalina. Typically when I use the technique of playing some songs the art is indexed and shows up, however in some situations that doesn't work. In addition to that I ask Music to get album artwork and it fails.

So in summary, not only have I lost the artwork for this album in the transition from iTunes to Music. It isn't an automatic exercise to recover the artwork, so now I am going to be asked to revisit a large portion of my approximately 3,313 albums to then search for artwork in a web browser, (something I had already done at least once).

I suspect there is a larger underlying bug or omission in development of the transition of libraries from iTunes to Music. Let's hope that Apple considers this issue and has not completely moved on to only developing for Music subscribers.

While I’ve had some success after lots of pain on the album art work front, I found out this morning Catalina refuses to sync my iPhone data correctly and Apple CarPlay shows place holders but the tracks are missing 🤬🤬🤬. Looks like I’m going to be rolling back to the last version of Mac OS X. Until things are sorted and working reliability.

Again. How much of my life do I have to waste trying to get album art to work in iTunes/Apple Music? I'm fcking sick of this utterly fcking useless sht. My library has embedded artwork in every track, yet Music can't display it. Finder displays it, yet Music doesn't. Cnts.

I got the albums that has embedded artwork to display by forcing the music app to build a new database file by holding the option key and choosing the original iTunes itl file. It asked for a new location of the music database file.

I still don’t have everything but it was significantly better than the default built file after the upgrade.

What I found was that I had to rebuild the music app database file by hitting the option key while loading music app. When it asked to choose a library, I directed it to the original .itl file for itunes and it asked me to give a new name for a new library. After waiting a bit, it got all the album art for the files that I had previously embedded or purchased from Amazon. The rest I did the Get album art and 90% of those came in. There are a few that still don't, even though Apple's itunes store shows they have it (e.g. Adele's 19 album, seriously???).

I had the same problem. A lot of album covers missing, really sluggish performance, endless force quits. Really exasperating. After seeing online that a lot of people had the same problem I decided to revert back to Mojave using time machine and a LaCie backup. Thankfully it worked. I was wondering whether it might be possible to save the artwork to iCloud and somehow reintegrate it after the upgrade. As you can tell, i'm really not technical. It's probably a dumb idea. Apart from that, I think I'll wait awhile. Hopefully, Apple will sort out these glitches. Good luck everyone.

the same here. I've got a lot of old albums for which apple never had album artwork.... so that means I can start over again to get the album artwork? this is too crazy to be true.... who gives Apple the right to destroy user data on my pc???? any help welcome

What I did was revert back to Mojave and Time Machine. Then went and dragged out each album's cover art to a new folder so I had them on hand if the upgrade to Catalina still failed with the album art. It's a little excessive, but it's hard to get cover album art that's clear, and this was the one way to make sure that it worked.

I right-clicked on the album, then "Get Info". Go to the Artwork tab. Left-click on it and drag the artwork to a folder. It will then extract a jpg or png file to the folder. The image file will also be named after the album you're extracting from.

Took a day (more or less) to scan all and display all the album artwork in Music. I fixed all the album doesn't have artwork (I turned off the auto get artwork option).

I quitted Music app, re-started Music app, almost all artworks disappeared. And it slowly (very very slow) to bring the artwork back. It is like the very first time when I opened Music app right after installing the Catalina.

To prove my point: Apple Music app is working hard to clear out their own "artwork" from your music library.

To Apple: Your "feature" getting artwork is no longer benefit me. I turned it off. Please fix your software so artwork display quickly and correctly as design.