Apple Music Big Sur Album Artwork Cache Rebuild?

i tinkered for a bit a discovered that deleting the cache and then restarting the AMPArtworkAgent process were the important parts. so....

1. quit Music
2. delete ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.AMPArtworkAgent/Data

• • e.g. from Terminal
    • rm -r ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.AMPArtworkAgent/Data

1. either reboot macOS or use Activity Monitor to find and terminate a process named AMPArtworkAgent

• • (opening Music will start the AMPArtworkAgent if it isn't already running)

(It might be that limiting step (2) above to the Documents subfolder of Data is sufficient; I did not try that. I found no harm in deleting the whole Data folder, though.)

The next time you open Music, when it wants to display artwork it realizes it's absent from the cache. It will then do whatever it does to acquire it "from outside".

In my situation I'm running a forked-daapd server on a Raspberry Pi. After doing the above steps, when I start Music and select my forked-daapd library (via the down-caret next to "Library" in the left sidebar), Music starts making requests of forked-daapd to acquire artwork. It starts appearing without further intervention.

You could try removing the artwork cache which should force Music to rebuild it. The location should be ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.AMPArtworkAgent/Data/Documents where ~ is your user's home folder.

Show hidden files and folders with Shift+Cmd+. to aid your navigation.

tt2

I have a similar problem but it is as a result of moving the Apple Music media files to a different computer where some of the art work just doesn't show up but it is truly there embedded in the music file. My solution which has worked for me is to select the album with the problem, right click on it and select "Delete from Library", then "Delete Songs", then "Keep Files". Then from the Apple Music tool bar menu select "File", then "Import...", then locate and select the music folder where you store all of the media files and select "Open". This will take time to run depending on how big your music collection is, but when done the album and with its art work should reappear. I suggest trying this with just one album to see if it works before doing multiple albums.

You would think something should have shown up there by now. Might be worth a reboot. You could also hold down option+cmd as you launch Music which should open it in its safe mode and might help.

tt2

Do you see art work if you right click on an album and select "Get Info" then pick the "Art Work" tab? If you don't see any art work, then you need to add the art work manual or you can try from the "Album" view ... right click on the album and select "Get Album Artwork". Also for reference I am using "Apple Music version 1.1.3.3"

Did you try deleting the cache yet? I should probably have added that you need to empty the trash after deleting it.

tt2

I don't think so. This is the one that is supposed to do it if from what I've read. I've got 3 artwork.sqlite files, something called iChats, and an artwork folder with some 10,000 images in it.

tt2