My music library, “peanuts” to some, I’m sure, had more than 19k songs. I finally replaced it because it wouldn’t die and I wanted something newer. Working half the time outdoors in all weather and autonomously, I used the living daylights out of it EVERY day. Actually, it was a GREAT machine and tougher than nails. My first iPod was the infamous 3rd generation with the four, individual buttons under the (tiny, monochrome) display.
#Get all album artwork itunes 11 mac
I have been a Mac user since System 6.0.3 (late 1889). I do see it sometimes on artwork that came with files I bought, but not with files where I've added artwork myself.After waiting several MONTHS for the smoke to clear from the initial release of Catalina, I finally took the plunge. I've ripped thousands of CDs, and have honestly never seen this problem. Perhaps it has something to do with the way Photoshop resizes the files, or the way the files are exported from Photoshop. When I do, I delete the artwork cache folder, and that sorts it out. I have a large iTunes library, and I rarely see artwork corruption. On the other hand, if you are seeing consistent and reproducible problems, then that is a different story. It is really easy to corrupt an audio file's metadata. I get lots of email that contain the phrases "carefully for many years", "over 50 thousand files", and "corruption". In my experience: The longer you possess audio files with metadata, the more likely you are apt to see corruption as a matter of course as you copy from file system to file system, process with various operating systems, add/remove metadata, use with various apps (including iTunes) and so on. If you have many, many files then you are even more likely to see this simply because you have a bigger pool. But as mentioned, would like to find the cause and avoid having to re-rip those effected, if possible. So far the only way I've been able to resolve the problem is to delete the entire album and re-rip, as described earlier. Maybe the Add Art process corrupts the music file for some reason? It may be that after adding the art and clicking OK I moved to the next album too quickly at times and start another before the first had enough time to complete the embed process? I was adding art to a bunch of newly ripped albums at a rapid pace. Disc 1 art is fine while disc 2 art failed. Any attempt to delete the art and re-add, even a different art, leads to the same failed result.Īlso, if the art was corrupt, would it work on disc 1 and not disc 2? Two of the examples I posted are two disc albums and I used the same art image from my HD for both. It still leaves remnants of the corrupted art and looks similar to the examples posted. I'll add that deleting the bad artwork from the album, even multiple attempts, does not completely remove it. Try deleting it and adding another image. If it weren't embedded, it wouldn't show up at all. Would like to avoid having to re-rip additional problematic albums and learn why the issue occurs in the first place? Not sure if all these steps were necessarily related to any success, just describing what I did. One thing that has worked has been to delete the album from iTunes library, trash album art cache folder, empty trash, restart computer, re-rip CD, add artwork. Actually, option 2 worked once, if I recall, but not on another album. My method for adding artwork is the following:ġ) Delete artwork from iTunes album and re-addĢ) Delete artwork from iTunes album, trash Album Artwork cache folder, restart computer, re-addĪnd different variations of the two above.
Some tracks are blank, while some tracks have the art correct, and some tracks have a partial strip of the artwork displayed. Would like to know why my album art does not always embed correctly in iTunes? On about 15 albums I noticed the art is not embedded in a few songs within an album.