Lost my navigation for multiple album art in Music 1.0.6.10 Catalina 10.15.7 Late 2012 iMac 27"

I have tried Apple help and reported the problem through various levels without success. I have a large library of Apple Lossless audio files (4000 albums) with full custom artwork of jpeg scanned images attached to the albums. In either album or song artwork information i can see two and a half images but cannot navigate sideways to the third fourth or fifth image. The images are there. I can delete one of the viewable images and the next hidden one will move into view. It is similar to freezing the columns in Excel so that you lock the view. My mouse or trackpad works fine. I have had this since first upgrading to Catalina. I have re-installed the OS. I have copied the music Library to an external HD and imported the entire Library to a PC version of music. In the PC version I could navigate through the artwork. Help!!

iMac 27″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 24, 2020 1:02 PM

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Posted on Jan 4, 2021 10:36 AM

Bit of an Update. I found the post on "Retroactive" and used it to install iTunes 12.9.5.5 onto Catalina 10.15.7 (Late 2012 iMac 27). Once the iTunes was installed I changed the location of the iTunes Library to an external hard drive (my Music Library is ~2Tb so could not fit on my local drive). Once the library was relocated I used the File-Add to Library and pointed to the Music directory containing my Music files in my local hard drive. It then chugged away for 36 hours or so and imported all of my ripped mp4 files and artwork into iTunes. Using iTunes I can now navigate through my album art. Enthused that I now had an independent working backup, I called Apple help to see how to un-install Music and then re-install it to see if I could solve the original problem. In short the answer was no. When you use Finder in Catalina and locate in your application file the Music App, right click, you will find it cannot be moved to trash or deleted, it is part of the OS and protected. Moving through the various apps you can continue right clicking to find what apps are considered "core" and what apps can be trashed. If you try to use the App store the only option is for the subscription service version of Music. The long and short of it is until there is a new version of Music bundled up in a revision to Catalina, I am stuck. The plus side is that iTunes seems to be a better app than Music for my use of viewing and playing music.

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Jan 4, 2021 10:36 AM in response to DJC737

Bit of an Update. I found the post on "Retroactive" and used it to install iTunes 12.9.5.5 onto Catalina 10.15.7 (Late 2012 iMac 27). Once the iTunes was installed I changed the location of the iTunes Library to an external hard drive (my Music Library is ~2Tb so could not fit on my local drive). Once the library was relocated I used the File-Add to Library and pointed to the Music directory containing my Music files in my local hard drive. It then chugged away for 36 hours or so and imported all of my ripped mp4 files and artwork into iTunes. Using iTunes I can now navigate through my album art. Enthused that I now had an independent working backup, I called Apple help to see how to un-install Music and then re-install it to see if I could solve the original problem. In short the answer was no. When you use Finder in Catalina and locate in your application file the Music App, right click, you will find it cannot be moved to trash or deleted, it is part of the OS and protected. Moving through the various apps you can continue right clicking to find what apps are considered "core" and what apps can be trashed. If you try to use the App store the only option is for the subscription service version of Music. The long and short of it is until there is a new version of Music bundled up in a revision to Catalina, I am stuck. The plus side is that iTunes seems to be a better app than Music for my use of viewing and playing music.

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