Hi. Since upgrading to Catalina this morning there has been a process in Activity Monitor called AMPLibraryAgent running which is taking up 100% of CPU. Does anyone know what this is? I tried killing the process but it just started straight back up again. Mac is sluggish after upgrading and I'm sure this is not helping!
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
Pull up a terminal window and type in "man -k AMPLibraryAgent". Man is the built-in manual or help pages and -k means do a keyword search. So you are asking your Mac if it knows of any help pages that refer to or are called AMPLibraryAgent and you will see this:
AMPLIBRARYAGENT(8) BSD System Manager's Manual AMPLIBRARYAGENT(8)
NAME
AMPLibraryAgent -- The media library agent for Music.app and TV.app.
SYNOPSIS
AMPLibraryAgent
DESCRIPTION
AMPLibraryAgent is a per-user daemon which manages the user's media.
There are no configuration options to AMPLibraryAgent. Users should not
run AMPLibraryAgent it manually.
Mac OS X Dec 6, 2018 Mac OS X
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While not super-detailed in its description it does verify that this is OK to run on your system as it is a built-in part of macOS. This is not some virus stealing all of your CPU...it is one of Apple's processes stealing all of your CPU. So feel better about it.
I did a clean install and still have same problem. Looks to be related to TV app and perhaps related to managing large library’s. Which should not happen on a 2019 MacBook Air. Help Apple!
I have this problem too??? what is going on, my fan is going overtime from this AMPLibrary agent! has anyone figured it out yet.
I wonder if this is the reason the iPhone 'Remote App' is no longer able to control Music pp on the Mac? ( Where 'Remote App' used to control iTunes fine)
what is a clean install?
Update didn't do anything to stop this. Is anyone from Apple support going to respond?
After upgrading, process AMPLibraryAgent is taking up 100% of CPU
