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Album Art display problems & quirks

Earlier this year I transitioned from a Mojave 27" iMac to a Monterey Mac Studio. This involved transitioning from iTunes to Music app for a ~20k song library. Bringing in the library actually worked better than I expected, but Music seems to have problems with Album Art. I understand that it pulls art from its Database and from the ID3 (so maybe I lost stuff in the DB transfer), most of the library previously had artwork attached... but the behavior it currently exhibits doesn't make any sense. The main problem is that most albums show NO art in Get Info>Artwork tab... as well as almost nothing displays a thumbnail in the left side of songs display... BUT most of the albums will display their proper album art in the mini-player and art thumbnail in the top now playing info box upon playing.


Any help or insight into how its reading the art and displaying it in some areas, but it can't seem to find it in others??


Another weird behavior I noticed is in the Songs display with art Thumbnail visible on the left, nothing will show up as having art until I mouse over the particular row for that song... then it shows, but the same behavior again upon close/reopen.

Posted on Nov 3, 2022 9:39 AM

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Nov 7, 2022 12:45 PM in response to turingtest2

I went ahead and deleted the "Documents" Folder in there. Then killed AMPArtworkAgent process, and reloaded Music. I scrolled through my albums on artwork view and it rebuilt 619 cached covers into the 'artwork' folder... (there were 1310 in the folder I removed)... But it is still doing same behavior. Won't show album art to left of song, or in Get Info, but displays when track is played.


Nov 3, 2022 1:04 PM in response to illbilly

Music/Tunes should display art in most views provided at least one track from the album has embedded or associated artwork. The cache should automatically update whenever there is a request to show a relevant image. That said it seems the cache in Music gets stuck sometimes. The artwork cache should be stored at ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.AMPArtworkAgent/Data/Documents where ~ is your user's home folder. Deleting the cache should force it to be rebuilt. Perhaps Music will do a better job next time around.


tt2

Nov 5, 2022 10:48 AM in response to turingtest2

Hi, that sounds like a reasonable explanation. Thank you for your response. Which file/folder should I delete specifically? Attached is a pic of the data in that location you specified: [unsure if this matters: I keep my Music (actual files) folder inside my Documents folder, and in the attached jpg the documents>artwork folder has about 1300 cover art pics in it]:

Album Art display problems & quirks

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