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Scripting Music.appįirst I tried using the Music.app API. This gets gnarly quickly, so if you glaze over at the merest mention of code, scripting, databases or the like I don’t blame you if you click the back button now. I tried using the popular Re-Embed Artwork script, essentially to refresh Music’s view of the file. The next resolution I used often with iTunes was the excellent repository of Apple Scripts at Doug’s Scripts. Get Info is still there on Music.app, but it appears to have no effect, at least not at retrieving artwork that has been added. However, at worst, the Get Info dance would fix this, and iTunes would show any artwork that has been added. Just getting iTunes to see artwork you have added to your library would, historically, take more effort than it should. We used to have similar issues in iTunes. But we want the artwork to show when browsing albums too because - guess what big tech? - some of us listen to albums. Music.app seems to have no problem showing artwork on individual songs. I should be clear here: we’re talking about album artwork. If I could replicate this with no effort, other users must be experiencing the same thing. What prompted this? A bunch of emails to my inbox, a bunch of online discussions I’ve gradually noticed over the months, and a dead-simple replication of the same problem myself. If you know how to fix it, please drop a comment or send me an email! TL DR: (to save you the time scrolling through this) I didn’t manage to fix album artwork not showing for the Albums browser. I can’t help coming to the conclusion that self-stored music collections are not a profitable enough use case for Apple. iCloud Music Library, when matched to your local music, isn’t affected once it’s matched, Apple have their own artwork online. How can this be? We all know album art is important for people’s experience of their music.īut it turns out that this is a local-only, self-stored music problem. It’s almost two years since Music.app was launched on macOS devices and album artwork for self-stored music is still broken. Apple Music.app album artwork is a trainwreck
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