I've just upgraded to Catalina and started using apple music. Even while idle (aside from "loading artwork" which I'm guessing is a result of switching from iTunes to apple music) I'm seeing the RAM constantly increase. I just checked the performance monitor and sae apple music using 86GB! I've restarted the application and I'm monitoring now and can see it constantly rising.
It does seem like the album artwork sync was the issue. I ended up deleting a 4GB folder of "album artwork" from my iTunes folder. This retained all artwork that was embedded in music files but I've lost a lot of other artwork which I'll just have to reimport. I can say though that since deleting this folder the sync notification has gone and iTunes now doesn't use more than about 1.6GB of RAM.
Turning off the artwork update helps, but even then, if Music crashes with an OOM error, it needs to verify the library at next startup and that takes ages.
It's insane that these issues were not fixed in the betas and ended up in the GA release.
The ghost of Steve Jobs will haunt you for the rest of your lives.
Well, after many days of frustration, restarts, shutting down and reopening Music and memory leaks that made my whole iMac bogged down, the artwork seems to have finished loading.... and things are back to normal, more or less, with memory usage at a reasonable rate. Hoping that holds!
Hi baconwrapped
I have the same issue (memory 97Gb, no more artworks, etc)
How many time are you waiting to see Music running normaly?
My music library contains approx. 68.000 songs
Because I hesitate to go down to Mojave and working again with iTunes.
thx for the answer
Claude
It takes a while for all of iTunes to migrate to Music. Quite a while. One way to speed up the process is to go to the Apple at the top left finder bar >Preferences > Energy Saver then set computer sleep to "Never". Leave Display Sleep unchanged.
This will allow Catalina to continuously migrate info, even as you sleep. You can check by having music open to full screen and looking in the lower left to see if it is still migrating. Also, memory usage will drop to several hundred MB, not GBs.
Once it is complete, go back in Preference and change energy saver to you normal preference.
Check your original files and see if the artwork was actually embedded in the music. Many older CDs and downloads did not have the artwork embedded, which means you had to add it manually.
Also, try right clicking over an album without art work and go to "get album artwork" that has brought up artwork that Catalina did not. You can click on multiple albums by holding down the Apple/command key which should show with a red outline, then right click and bring up the list.
Must admit that Catalina release is one of the worst one Apple ever has ever done. Taken over a week to get my Lat 2012 27" iMac back to any semblance of normal. Still have issues.
I always go into a Mac OS upgrade thinking it will fix my woes. Guess not this time... or any time in years for that matter.
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I applied the Catalina update just now (I don't know what it fixes) and even though 'Automatically update artwork' is unticked, it still updates the artwork every time I open Music.
Happened to me too:
After a couple of crashes, I think my system seems to have stabilized.
I wonder if that’s got something to do with it... how can you tell if the artwork is with the mp3 or not?
I found by disabling `Automatically update artwork` in the advanced tab of Preferences to solve the memory leak.
This is not ideal but a workaround for now.
Mine is a on a NAS and I have 40,000+ songs so far I have had 10 crashes due to the music app consuming all the RAM , come on apple get it sorted. You have only had like 6 months to work on it!
Try pulling any old iTunes folders out of the Music folder. Seemed to fix the issue for me.
Yep same boat very frustrating , problems reported since beta 1 and yet they release it with the same artwork issues
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