I cleared the artwork for an album for which it had been correctly downloaded during. The process seems to be terribly flawed in any case. In the end I had to delete those albums to empty the library and start from there. So all this stuff is being cached somewhere else, but it’s ridiculous that you cannot simply create a new empty library. It ALWAYS found what had been in the library before and included them again. I tried this several times, but I was unable to actually create a new empty Music Library. It dutifully created a new Music Library – and those 2 albums were still there. I first dragged a couple of albums into the new empty Music.app (directly after Catalina upgrade) Then wanting to start afresh, I quit Music, deleted the Music Library (emptied the Bin) and started Music again. Which in my case indicates the Music.app import is UNable to access the old iTunes AA data and simply downloads what it can.Īpple is making life hard. So for my new import, any artwork I had ‘pushed’ into iTunes AA system is now missing and it is only showing what it was apparently able to find in the store (ok from Gracenote, but let’s not go there) or embedded (but I have very little of that). I used to use CoverArt which allowed me to add artwork into iTunes AA structure – until Apple encrypted the process so it was no longer possible to do that (thanks Apple). Hang on, if your artwork did not come from the store, how did you add it into iTunes? Embedded? In which case the new Music.app would just grab that. That would indicate it IS using the old iTunes/AA data, but how is it matching newly imported albums back to the GUIDs used to store the old artwork files? Are you saying that when importing your old music into a new library, it ended up with the artwork even for stuff not in the store, but for which you did previously have it? It is not using and cannot use the existing artwork, it has not apparently downloaded anything new into that existing iTunes/AA folder structure and it has not put anything into the new ~/Library/Caches/ location. So it’s not simply accessing the original existing artwork (which would be impossible anyway as it could not possibly know the original GUIDs used for the artwork file storage (did I say what a terrible system it is). Since the imported music would all be seen as new, any artwork would have to be freshly downloaded as evidenced by so much missing stuff (so that’s not improved), whereas all that music originally had full artwork in the iTunes/Album Artwork folder (not embedded). After which various ~/Library/Caches/ folders had been updated, but all remained empty and nothing new in the old Album Artwork folder either. Yes it was an ‘upgrade’, but I started again with a new empty library and ‘Added to library’ all the music (about 25K tracks) from a network volume. Note that macOS Catalina is just a beta, and this information is subject to change. This means that you can store your music on one volume and your movies and TV shows on another volume, which can be practical for many people with large libraries. And each of these apps has an Advanced preference allowing you to choose a location for its media folder. When you upgrade from macOS Mojave, both the Music and Apple TV apps will remember the location of your existing media, if you are using a different folder than the default. (This is not currently the case with podcasts using Quick Look on a podcast file lets you listen to it, but there is no album artwork attached.) However, if you select a file and press the space bar to view it in Quick Look, you will see its cover. As with podcasts, you’re not intended to visit this folder, and ebook files do not have their original names, though audiobooks do display their names. This folder will contain both ebooks and audiobooks. Books: Since Apple spun off the Books app, ebooks have been stored in a folder in your Library folder:.You can, however, drag podcast files from the Podcasts app to the Desktop or to a folder. This is not designed to be user accessible, and the podcast files do not display the original file names. Podcasts: Podcasts are stored in a cache folder in ~/Library/Group Containers/.podcasts.Music Videos, however, will stay in the Music app. Apple TV: For TV shows and movies, the default location is ~/Movies.(~ is a shortcut for your home folder, the one with the house icon and your user name.) Music: By default, these files will be stored in ~/Music.Here’s where the various files will be located. With macOS 10.15 Catalina, and the splitting of iTunes into three apps (Music, Podcasts, and Apple TV), media files will be handled a bit differently.
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