MP3 icon no longer displays artwork in finder

The same problem here. Your solution works on 10.6.8 while it doesn't on 10.7. On 10.6.8 quick look, Option+I (preview), coverflow and icon preview all work after manually copy/pasting the albumart. On 10.7 only quicklook and Option+I preview work. Icon preview and coverflow views don't show the albumart,

Another way to solve it:

select all of your mp3 files, then press cmd + opt+ i, and then change the app you use to oen your mp3, in my Mac I selected MplayerX instead of iTunes, then go back to iTunes and voilá!! You can see your artwork in lion again.

I don´t know if you realize by know, but this only happens with new files, all the mp3 you had before upgrading to 10.4 or Lion works just fine.

Another annoying bug happens when I connect my iPod [Nano 5g] to my MB, then open iTunes and surf Ipod's music through it: there's a lot of artwork missing, but I can see them perfectly in mi iPod's screen.

Same issue here (MacOS X 10.6.8 / iTunes 10.4) and none of the idea above (cmd-X cmd-V the cover in iTunes or changing the application playing music files) fixes the issue

Only the recent files are concerned (or the older file that you move or copy somewhere else...)

I just found a way to make it work, I hope it's useful to all of you:

You have to download Onyx, then go to "Maintenance", and there's a section there that is called Rebuild, go in there and select the Display of folders' content, and then pres the execute button; it take a lon time, so be patient.

after it finishes, go back to your music folder, and you should be able to see the artwork 😀.

Hope this help you guys!!

iTunes 10.4.1 is available and it is supposed to fix some issue with artwork added to songs and video.

Maybe it's THE fix we are waiting for...

Las! I installed the update and made a few tests.... NO improvement!

Message was edited by Remy Leroy after downlaod and installation of the update

Yes, this problem is definitely related to OS X (Leopard or Lion) as I can not get Quick Look or Finder to show album art not associated with iTunes (that is to say, music files not part of the iTunes Library). This definitely started happening after upgrading to 10.6.8. I have no idea why this has happened and it is frustrating that Apple doesn't seem to be acknowledging it. I really do hope that some type of fix is coming, though I doubt those of us still on Leopard will get one...

iTunes 10.4.1 is now available to update... it's supposed to solve this problem, so you should update if you can.

As I said earlier, eventhough this update is supposed to solve an issue related with artworks, it doesn't solve the issue we are discussing here ;-(

This is really getting frusturating. I manually add all of my tags and album artwork before adding my music to iTunes. Interesting enough songs that I add to iTunes, their album artowork reappears in finder. If I go to Users/MyUser/Music/iTunes/iTunesMedia/Music/Artist/Album, the icons of the songs will show the album artwork and it will show in quicklook. But, if I drag the mp3 to another folder the album artwork is again not reconized. All third-party software still shows album artowork.

I updated iTunes to 10.4 before upgrading to lion. I think that Apple should at least give us the ability to downgrade to a working version of iTunes, as they have had weeks to fix this widespread issue and have negleted to do so. I would hate to reimage my computer just to get album artowrk back.

I did update to the latest iTunes prior to posting on this thread. It does not fix the problem which is why I have come to the conclusion that this is an OS X problem and not an iTunes one.

Well Ben,

after SL -> Lion migration and iTunes 10.4 installation I gone crazy as I opened a Finder window on my Music folder and saw that some mp3 just lost their cover (and I say SOME, even on the same folder/album).

I read another post and people say that problem is there even on Leopard and Snow Leopard, just installing 10.4 (10.4.1 did NOT fix this issue), and someone solved reverting back to iTunes 10.3.

I would add that 10.4 killed performance on mass updating tags...

iTunes 10.5 is available but the bug is still there !!!

What a pity!

We will most likely have to wait for an update to Lion (for you Lion users) to see if the problem is resolved. I doubt there will be such an update for those of us still on Snow Leopard. But at least then, we'll know if this is an iTunes problem or OS X problem.

I already wrote and always will that the problem is not OS related as people with Leopard, SL and Lion have the problem.

I tried to install iTunes 10.5.1b3 and problem is not fixed, just copying "cover diaplyed" mp3 dragging it from its folder to the Desktop made the cover disappear. Then I opened Terminal and checked if there was some difference between them (diff) and looked for some strange extended attribute, but the files look exactly the same.

I think I was encountering the same issue.
I solved it installing Itunes 10.5.1(42), even if I'm not using Itunes at all.

Albumarts will now appear in every folder from the finder.

I closed my topic because I solved it :

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3467881

Is it the same for you ?