Mojave & iTunes Artwork Screen Saver

Ok, I was able to get it to play tracks in the iTunes Artwork ScreenSaver, BUT only when i launched the screen saver from command line:

/System/Library/CoreServices/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEng ine -background &

If i use hot-corners or let the screen saver launch by itself, it will not allow the play button to work on the iTunes Artwork Screensaver.

Greetings, Slowbono.

I see that you're unable to play songs from the iTunes Artwork screensaver on your iMac. I'm happy to help.

Use safe mode to isolate issues with your Mac -- Restart your Mac in safe mode and test how it responds. If there are no issues, reboot normally and test again in your own user account. Remember this when booting in safe mode: Graphics performance limited in macOS Recovery, safe mode, or Guest User mode

How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac -- If the issue is also happening in safe mode, use this article to create and test a new user account. This will demonstrate if the issue is isolated to your account, or if its system wide. You'll need to sign into iTunes under this new account and download some of your purchases to test.

Let me know how that goes, and take care!

Is this discussion read by apple-coders or does there exist a another platform for bug-feedbacks where I should post this.

No. This is a users forum.You can file a bug report from the feedback page. Just change the feedback type.

Feedback - macOS - Apple

I really want a working iTunes-screensaver back!!!

That may or may not ever happen.

After a clean install of macOS Mojave 10.14.2 on my 2017 27 inch iMac I continue to have this problem also. The artwork shows but clicking an album cover to play an album does not do anything. This is one of the few great screen savers around. Would really love to see this fixed.

Same issue folks. I chatted with Apple Support and they don't have any fixes other than recommending a reset on the NVRAM, which didn't work.

Hopefully Apple engineers fix the glitch in Mojave as opposed to bailing on it.

if to try looking in Console app some logs about what's happening when user clicks on the artwork to play it - there is some errors telling about an unavailable try to send AppleEvent to the iTunes app from ScreenSaverEngine.

I guess its all because new security policy of apple when user must click on the asking window when app wants to do some system stuff (like managing AppleEvents). And this window won't appear while screensaver run on

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ps. but I still don't know how to fix or avoid this 

Hey y'all, so I had the same problem on my 2018 Macbook air with the latest ios update available on settings and I found that the only thing that helped without really any much work was downloading the music. When you add a song/album to itunes library clicking the cloud button which replaces the plus sign to add songs to your library. This will then save the song/album on your laptop for offline purposes. I think thats why it doesn't work. From what I'm thinking it might be because it's not downloaded on the computer and it cant connect to wifi whenever its asleep just to pull images for a screensaver. especially since it might not always be connected to wifi. This seemed to be the only and easiest fix for me.

For Apple to say reinstall OS is simple ignorant. That isn't the issue. The issue is a buggy screensaver coding, I figure. It isn't OS. it is the screensaver (which I do not consider the OS). It doesn't work for way too many people. Apple, fix the screensaver or delete it. It doesn't work. Looks cool. Doesn't work. In the end, it doesn't matter much. If you are waiting for your screensaver to play what you want, ...

When is this going to be fixed ? I run 10.14.3 and I can not get the music to start playing in my screen saver !

time to downgrade to Sierra ? Don't apple QA their own products before releasing it ? this is an APPLE os bundle app and should work without the community have to finding their bugs :( disappointing :(

Pffff... Otherwise Mojave is great... too bad to discover this... :( and sierra had another super bug related to opening windows within an app to navigate through files in icons preview mode. Apple is messing often lately...

Apple's silence is not good. Why p.... off their customers? Can they call this an upgrade?

I have 10.14.3 and even starting it in command line does not work so another function gone.

What will happen when Apple moves to 16 bit will the customers be expected to fix the bugs and pay more for new software?

What will happen when Apple moves to 16 bit will the customers be expected to fix the bugs and pay more for new software?

I assume you mean 64bit not 16bit. Most software for Macs has been available in 64bit versions for a long time. If you have 32bit software that will need updaing, it will either be supplied by the developers for free or there will be an upgrade charge.

FWIW, no customers I'm aware of ever fixed an Apple bug.

I forgot to mention, the command line…

/System/Library/CoreServices/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background &

does in fact work in the Terminal. You have to esc the screensaver after running the command and allow the Terminal access.

Still broken with 10.14.4. Anyone at Apple gonna say or do anything about this???

By the way, the command line doesn’t work for me either. I used exactly the line given above, but the albums still do not play.

Come on Apple! You should be better than this! At least give us some idea of when there might be a fix?

I understand, but I would hope they might be listening. Where would posting a bug get more attention?

Also, the fact that the command line would not work for me might be due to environment. I use tcsh, but I’ve tried it with bash and sh, with and without the ampersand, and/or the -background, just to check.

I’d really like to get this screen saver running, even from the command line, so any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

With thanks. :)