After a fresh instal of Catalina, I dragged my Music Library and media to the Music folder, in the same relative position to each other, from my backup disk.
But, although the artwork is still 'attached' to the albums, it's not displaying in the Music app.
I've left it overnight to see if it will sort itself out, but no change.
If I right clock on an album and select Get Album Artwork nothing happens.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
iMac 27" 5K, macOS 10.15
Though this does work if you don't mind starting a new library ab ovo, it does not work if you are accessing a library from a shared disk space (without duplicating the data).
When I fire up a library that lives on box.com and on my hard drive but was made on my other mac, I can play the music but cannot see the album art—with one wrinkle: I can see the artwork if I get information on the individual songs; the album itself is not displaying. See below:
Does anyone know what trick I need to do to get the art to show in the album area itself? tx
SORTED! WOW!
Instead of copying my saved library and music files to the Music folder, what I did was create a new library.
I then imported my saved music.
After 5 minutes, it's back where it was before I re-installed Catalina.
Phew!
Well done :) I Did the same as you, I left it go overnight as I got 500gb of music.
Album art seems to be there this morning, I imported my playlists again.
I’m just hoping iCloud syncing isnt going to be messed up, will see when I get home from work 🤞
That is absolutely working. Thanks for sharing this info.
Incidentally, notice that when you create a fresh music folder by importing this way, the results are ultra simplified in Catalina: Media and a small Music Library.musiclibrary file are it. No more caches, Album Art, etc. There is a lot of noise on this list about retrieving or refreshing caches, but that seems to be an iTunes thing, not a Catalina Music thing.
OMG! I’ve got the exact same problem after a fresh Catalina install yesterday!
Am currently trying a TimeMachine restore instead, but I don't see why that should be any better.
Will keep you posted...
There must be a hidden folder somewhere with the album art cache, iTunes had it in the media folder under Music.
The Music app doesnt :(
Have you added new music to the library since then? Will it allow you to add new artwork to new items that don't have album art?
Hi, yes and yes.
Working normally.
New library, import the old music folders, done!
Album artwork present, but not displaying
