Album cover won't show in Finder

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

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

The newly saved ones stick after reboot but the older ones still don't but if you go to large icons view they do show. So it's almost fixed. I really am stumped by this whole problem. Another beta tonight (b4) so we'll see.

Just a guess here...is 64x64 the size you had set previously? If so, the old bugged art may still be cached and hopefully when it refreshes then it will work normally. I don’t know of any way to force a refresh. Waiting a few days should cause a refresh though from my experience.

I still say give it a few days and see if the cache clears. When we had the reinstall iTunes work-around earlier the same thing happened - some artwork still bugged, but eventually it would clear (until a reboot of course). It was always the artwork of the files I had looked at recently that would remain missing. Once they refreshed they would come back. Give it a few days (and don’t keep looking at those same folders over and over). I don’t know what triggers the cache to refresh, but once it does I’m guessing all will be fine.

Same thing for me ! Finder don’t show pictures of MP3 or AAC files. For this reason i donwgrade with Time machine on my last OSX sierra.

We all could give Apple feedback, again and again:

Feedback - macOS - Apple

Same for me,

after upgrade to High Sierra album cover shows only when finder is in detail view.

if I press bar on an mp3 album cover is not shown in preview.

It is clearly a bug of High Sierra.

Then try Cocktail as a demo.

Also, oddly I still do see the cover art for tags and audio files that were saved or created prior to 10.13. Any new saved audio file or new tag goes to the default icon in Finder. Weird. Must be something to do with the new Audio codecs or how audio files are processed or something I guess.

I’ve tried reinstalling High Sierra from recovery and that only temporarily fixes the problem. After a reboot the album art disappears again. This is maddening as I’ve organized thousands of songs over many years and now they all display as gray icons.

I’ve escalated this to Apple engineering via Apple support, but so far they have no answer.

A long time ago I had the same issue which I could solve being stable for many years. (see my description in link)
But now it did not work for me. But maybe it can give ideas to somebody?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4580845?answerId=21571153022#21571153022

I'm having the same issues regarding the album cover won't show in finder. I've contacted tagr and that informed me it is a macOS High Sierra problem. In my case, it is not an iTunes issues. So Apple techs we wait on you

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.