apple music memory leak

Ok, got past the main problem with my 32,000 song library. I moved the 'Album Artwork' folder out of its starting place in Music/iTunes, which seemed to allow the Music app to run without running out of memory. I may have proactively closed the app a few times along the way. At some point it finished downloading but I noticed there were still many albums still missing artwork. A smart playlist came back with almost 2,000 songs still missing artwork (a lot were albums, so counting is a bit off). I could right click and get artwork for some of them (why did I have to do that?) and now I'm down to the hardcore set that are going to need a search engine and manual attention. Feel like I've been here before but way at the very beginning of this technology, not really fitting for the here and now of how things should work in 2019.

What in heaven's sake is the use of a library of 40,000 songs???? (Or even 10.000 for that matter.)

Sounds like the old American problem of overdoing it. When can one ever listen to all this music?

Just my two European cents...

Just wondering what to DO with all that music. Any song can be found somewhere on the internet these days, so there is hardly any use to keep them on your computer. And having the time to listen to all this music (that's what it's for, isn't it?) seems impossible to me.

But this was just a thought when I visited this page. There are more important issues to be discussed here, so let us stick to those. ;-)

I know what you mean...

But I’m a music lover, I like to own my music. I like to own my records and my digital files (that I also have in the cloud with my iTunes Match subscription). That way, I don’t need to subscribe any streaming service. Why should I? Besides, I have lots of music that isn’t available on any streaming service. ;)

If I have the time to listen to all my music? Of course not. And, believe me, I listen to a LOT of music, it’s my passion and my job. But that’s not the point...as any music geek could tell you ;)

Plus 1 with this issue. Made even more annoying by being taken through my mac by apple support with restarts etc. I ended the call as I was told to “leave it for a while as the music library will take a while to synch”. How can they release a replacement for iTunes that had a reputation for being sluggish with this. Currently at 19gb of ram and climbing. Any pointers would be appreciated. Disabled the artwork option. Also tried to add another album to see if it WAS syncing but the new files are not in the library on my other devices. I’m also using iTunes Match or whatever it’s called now.

Well what I don't understand why this issue isn't on any of the apple sites like macrumors , iclarified, machash , appleinsider??

It must be affecting thousands of people but no mention at all. Apple paying them off to keep it quiet as such a disaster after touting it the replacement for iTunes?

Ok got a work around , I removed the album art folder from the old iTunes folder on my NAS and restarted Music app , its now trawling through my music as seen in activity , music then info but the RAM isn't increasing and sometimes actually goes down before hovering around 600Mb. Going to leave it now and let it finish.

Something about it using the old iTunes artwork data is causing the leak , maybe the way it's processing the data against the new app I am not sure.

Anyways I am feeling it won't crash now , as to where the album art is being stored as its not recreated the folder again I have no clue.

I can confirm that this fix worked for me, too. I deleted my entire "Album Artwork" folder and re-started Music.

The program is now "Processing Album Artwork," but my memory usage is holding steady.

With all due respect to a handful of Europeans, I have a very large music collection (115,000+ songs and counting), so it may take a bit of time for the entire collection to be processed. But everything is behaving very well so far.

UPDATE to all - I call Apple services, I did 2 things with them - 1st, I reinstall MacOS Catalina .... did not solve the problem - 2nd I create a new TEST profil on my mac with the minimum program loaded, and it seams that the Music apps do not eats all the memory. But I don't thing it's a viable solution. So maybe it is a combination of many program loaded in the same time. The say they are going to follow up with technical support ..... will see ;-)

Last time I run Music apps it goes to 20GO before I close the apps, and I did not play any music at all !!!

Where did you move the Album Artwork folder to? I have my iTunes library on my QNAP. NAS and am also experiencing artwork not loading for many albums. I assume you don’t delete the folder, but move it to another location? Please advise. Thanks.

I will say though – I let it just do its thing without changing anything, and it's working now just fine. 11,479 items in iTunes, and 4.04GB of Album Art in the music folder processed. Hovering around 300mb now consistently.

I deleted everything inside the folder after copying its contents (for safe keeping) to the desktop.

When I re-opened the Music app, the artwork was all re-processed, and after a few hours (I have huge collection), the program is still open and working fine.

This 100 percent solved my problem. It's definitely worth a try.

Just delete it. It sounds brutal but that’s the only thing that worked for me. It must be a whopper of a bug as most of my artwork was still intact. How that works with the artwork in the trash I don’t know unless it all disappears when I empty the trash but I would rather lose the artwork than force quit every 10 mins

Apple Music totally locks my whole computer (iMac).

And I can't do anything with it. I can't search for music, I can't play songs. I just get the spinning wheel all the time.

I have to force quit Apple Music to be able to do anything else on my computer, like browsing the web.

Which I will, to listen to Spotify webplayer.

Approximately 20% of the songs in my Itunes library are songs not available on streaming services. And I like to own my music, because you never know what happens to any of the streaming services. Peter Gabriel's music, for instance, has been on and off streaming services during the last few years.