No album cover art in Finder for mp3's? What a downgrade.

Same problem here, I cant figure it out. I hope it's just a bug.

It's DEFINITELY some sort of bug and you're not the only one. I just noticed it when syncing my iphone..

Sorry but in finder preferences sidebar tab if you check music then it appear in the finder i can browse my music like in itunes and play it..

Can you be a bit more specific? Under finder preferences, there are boxes to check for the sidebar but I see nothing about what you are mentioning.

I'm having this same issue. All my music files with album art embeded in the id3 tags show blank thumbnails and when pressing space to preview it shows no cover art. I noticed the issue after updating iTunes to the latest version. Albulm art is still present when opening the mp3 files in third party software and in iTunes.

same problem here.... something to do with the update. this exact same problem happened after itunes 9.2 was released -- the bug was fixed a few months later with the release of itunes 10. hopefully it doesn't take apple as long to fix this round.

really frustrating tho.

No, I don't think you can say there is NO cover art, there is some:

Most on my machines, but why some and not the others is probally the key to this mystery. The truth is in there!

as we've stated -- the problem is in finder... "Get Info" and/or loading the .mp3 in itunes is fine.

Okay, here's finder:

So perhaps the problem is that only artwork for MP3's loaded into iTunes no longer works?

Mine works just fine. Maybe the finder need times to rebuild the icon preview.

Update 104.1 fixes this issue, lets download it and see if it works...

Apple’s release notes are as follows:

iTunes 10.4.1 provides a number of improvements, including:

- Fixes a problem where the media keys on some third-party keyboards work inconsistently with iTunes

- Addresses issues with adding artwork to songs and videos

Yeah, I just tried out, I selected a song, created an mp3 version of it, and the album artwork didn't embed the cover art, 10.3 was working great for me, if only apple hadn't stated that it fixed the album art problem i would never updated to 10.4.1, *****.

Sorry all for that, so, do not update to 10.4.1, it doesn't fix the problem!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello Nikicampos

I have no such problem with iTunes with a library of more than 30000 songs.

I used to be a Weekend DJ with many many Albums.

Which view in iTunes does not give you an Artwork.

One thing to note is the list view, will give you an Artwork only if there is more song than the size of the Artwork icon.

here is an example

I left only two song in the Hush Album to show that list view, wont give you the Artwork in this case.

but as you can see, the info of the selected song show the artwork.

in the finder, without Icon Preview checked, you wont see the artwork.

With icon Preview Activated

I do have more question

Why do you convert the song ?

if the original song is an aiff, wav or a movie, the artwork cannot be inserted inside the file, so converting it will result into a song without artwork.

Sometime you will see a file marked MPEG-3 but it is a video. Open it into Quicktime, export it as a audio file then put it in iTunes, and if the file is mp3 or mp4, AAC, then you can insert the Artwork.

I probably dont fully understand your problem, give me more info but I am using iTunes since the very first version and I never hard a problem with artwork.

Could you give more detail about your problems?

Thank you

Franco

Hi Franco Borgo

Thanks for your answer, here's the thing, first of all I'm kind of a perfectionist, I like everything to be the way I like it, in iTunes there's no problem, all the artwork shows, the thing is in finder, the artwork won't show, I like to convert the songs to mp3 at 128kbps so all the songs are almost the same in size, I have done this for years, working perfect, until 10.4, so I reinstalled Lion and kept the 10.3.1 and not updated to 10.4, and everything work fine, until today, I updated to 10.4.1 and I made some tests, converted a song and the artwork it's not showing in finder.

I copied the file to another computer that has iTunes 10.3.1 and in finder it shows the artwork, so it has to be something that iTunes 10.4 and finder not working well together, some people have said to wait a day until finder works something out (library or something like that), I'll wait a day or two, if not, i would try to downgrade to iTunes 10.3 if not, i'll just reinstall Lion once again.

And thanks.

Here's a pic