Album cover won't show in Finder

Oddly last beta 4 it worked again for a couple days and then went away and then beta 5 is still broken which is probably going to get released next week un-fixed. 😟 . I would think that this would be easy for apple to fix. Frustrating.

AIFF files don't seem to be affected by the Finder bug. My entire label catalog is in AIFF format with embedded cover art and those show up in Finder (but not in Quicklook I just noticed). Mp3, FLAC and M4a will not show cover art in Finder or quicklook.

I'm surprised that the fault was not in the new macOS itself, but probably the combination of High Sierra 10.13 + iTunes 12.7.

My system now shows cover art in my music files in finder with macOS 10.13.1 AND iTunes 12.7.1

Edit: No restart was necessary, except relaunch of the iTunes application of course.

Does it work after a reboot, because it didn’t fix the problem on either of my Macs?

I’ve installed High Sierra 10.13.1 and iTunes 12.7.1 and the bug is still present.

If it’s like the bug we have been encountering, if you reboot your computer then all of your album art will once again vanish.

What worked for me is opening a file in iD3 editor by PA Soft changing an arbitrary metadata field and re-saving the file. Only then did the cover show up. This isn't a convenient solution though because batch changing and re-saving doesn't fix the issue and I have to change and re-save each file individually. I've got over 10,000 tracks in my collection so currently looking for a better solution.

First I upgraded my macOS to 10.13.1 (from 10.13.0) and after installed, I update my iTunes to 12.7.1.
I notice that everything is working BUT if I restart my Macbook Pro, the covers still are showed. But if I changed the visualization or if I press the tab key to previous visualization, the covers disappeared! 😟

Beta 10.13.2 still has the same issue. Come on Apple!

If you toggle icon previews on and off in finder view options you can see that OSX thinks the icon preview for mp3's and m4a's are the generic music notes icon instead of the artwork. I don't even understand why they would fiddle with this function to the point of breaking it. This feature has been working fine for years. And don't get me started with what they did to audio units.. ugg

Something happen when you reboot the computer ! but what ?? so strange, a parameter change probably at the reboot

So i have uninstall iTunes ( with Appzapper ) and install it after .. it's work but i don't shut down my machine ,iMac stays on !!!!

How analyse folders and files for what's happen when the machine reboot ??? in console ?

With the amount of music I have on my Mac and as much time as I have spent organizing that music...it’s s big deal. I can’t beleive we are 6 weeks in to the new OS as well as several updates and numerous (official) bug reports and this has yet to be fixed. Very frustrating.

You need to have Sierra or a backup of your system ( Time Machine or clone )

Make a USB bootable of Sierra and you can downgrade easily .

I have downgrade my macbook pro with an USB and i have restore with my time capsule.

For the moment i let my iMac on High Sierra, i will see how many times Apple will make before fix it !

Well, indeed I’m a music passionate, I even create my own music and add my artwork to every track, using Meta.

It doesn’t show up in Finder but everything is Ok on iTunes so it doesn’t bother me so much as to you guys.

I understand your frustration and believe me, I also respect your opinion but honestly, I also believe Apple will fix it and this issue/bug will never make me downgrade my OS, it’s a minor bug to me and I can still live with that and work as usual, it didn’t stop me to work.

I've seen something like that pop in and out a few betas back but up until beta 2 I had all my prior saved mp3's still showing artwork. After beta 2 of 10.13.2 every single file on my computer audio related shows the same generic icon. If I associate mp3's to open with Vox for instance, I can briefly see the vox icon behind the generic one if I toggle icon previews off and on in finder view options, but it then stays on the generic icon. Something weird is going on here that drives me crazy that I can't workaround somehow. I wonder if everyone has this same issue or any 10.13.2 beta users have normal previews? This just seems so basic that you have a hard time believing it doesn't work. This has worked since years and years ago just fine.

After 10.13.2 beta 3, I could save new audio files and have cover art show, or re drag cover art into an old file via a tag editor, and have it show up in finder. But dam if I'm going to do that with hundreds and hundreds of songs that can't really be batch written. The existing files still show a generic icon. But unless it's a fluke, it is going in the right direction. If only I could shock the old ones to show somehow. Then again, like the above comment, it may be a fluke.

I am having this issue with MP3 art as well. Downgrading to Sierra seems pointless at this time. Is there any other harm that can be done? -or- Is this just an annoying bug? I am a podcaster and I use the art to tell the finished files from the in progress files. I just have to be more careful to release the correct file. Most of my work is done on WAV files anyway, which never showed the artwork anyway.

My Workaround: Open the MP3 file in Music Tag Editor and check that the art is there before I release the podcast.

-Ron