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After Apple bought Beats Electronics in 2014, which included the now-stopped Beats Music streaming service, Apple Music came out in 2015. The Apple Music service not only lets you stream any song from iTunes whenever you want, but it also lets you access all of your music in one place on all of your devices, whether you bought it from iTunes, copied it from a CD, or downloaded it from the web.
The streaming service also gives you suggestions based on your interests, internet radio, the ability to save music to your device so you can listen to it when you don’t have internet, expert-made playlists, integration with Siri on iOS devices, and features like Lyrics view. When it comes to organizing your music, album art is still important. It makes it easier to find a certain artist’s album. If all of the album art goes away, your music library will look like a mess.
After updating to iOS 14 or the latest Catalina beta, some of you might be having trouble with missing album art. With the Apple Music app, you can listen to a lot of songs on your iPhone. Each song has its own Album Artwork, which lets you enjoy the music and makes it easier to understand. You can also turn on Animated Art to make the Music app more fun. But for some songs on Apple Music, the Album Artwork isn’t always visible, which could make listening to music boring. We mentioned below are the ways to fix Apple Music Album Art not showing.
Ways to fix Apple Music Album Art not showing
Clean Cache Folder
When you open a file in iTunes to look at it, iTunes checks to see if the album art is already in the file or if it needs to be downloaded separately. If that’s the case, it makes a cache file of the art. That is to say, if we deleted the cache folder with artwork, iTunes would make a new cache, which would fix the problem with the artwork album not showing.
Here are all the steps you need to take to clear out the cache folder of an iTunes artwork album. Please find the Music folder in the iTunes folder and move it to the Trash Bin to get rid of it. Empty the trash, close iTunes, and then open it again. Please don’t clean out other folders because they might have other useful things in them.
Rebuild iTunes Music Library
Even though it’s always a good idea to have the latest version of iTunes, updated iTunes can sometimes mess up the music library. Rebuilding the iTunes music library helps in this case. Here are the steps in full.
- Back up the iTunes Media folder and exit iTunes (restoring the iTunes music library will not affect the media files, but we recommend backing up the iTunes Media files first).
- Navigate to the iTunes folder. (For Mac users, the iTunes folder is located in Music in the Home folder; for Windows users, the locations may be different from each other, just search for Music throughout your computer and you will find the Music folder). iTunes Copy the two files Library.itl and iTunes Library.xml.
- Delete the iTunes Library or iTunes Library.itl file.
- Start iTunes, select File -> Library -> Import Playlists, navigate to iTunes Library.xml, click Open (Windows) or Select (Mac), wait a few minutes, your iTunes music library is now rebuilt Your iTunes music library is now rebuilt.
Manually Add Album Artwork
Get detailed information about the track, search for it on Google, and download the album artwork to your computer.
- Return to iTunes, right-click on the track without album artwork, press “View Info” and select “Artwork” > “Add Artwork”.
- Select the album artwork you downloaded and the album artwork will be added.
What is Apple Music
Apple Music is a music streaming service. Instead of buying songs or albums individually, you pay a monthly fee to listen to all the music you want. You can also download the songs to listen to them when you’re not online. As of this writing, Apple Music has more than 100 million songs in its library, which is more than any other music streaming service except SoundCloud. How you find new music on Apple Music is different from how you find new music on other services like Spotify. Spotify is mostly about finding new music, but Apple Music is all about exclusive radio stations like Music 1 that play new music, interviews, and news as it happens. Apple Music also has curated playlists for different types of music or even different moods.
Apple Music is, as you might expect, available through the AppStore on iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches running any recent version of iOS. It can also be downloaded from the Play Store on any modern Android phone or tablet. Since Catalina came out, Macs come with their own Music app. On older versions of macOS and Windows, you can use the iTunes app to get to Apple Music. When talking about iTunes, you can find Apple Music in the iTunes app and the iTunes Store in the Mac Music app. However, the two services are not the same. iTunes is still the place to go to buy songs, albums, movies, and TV shows for Apple devices.
Final Words
That’s it with our article on how to fix Apple Music Album Art not showing. We recently got letters from Apple users asking for help with a problem: album art wasn’t showing up on their iPhones after they updated to iOS 14. We talked to some Apple techs and tried a lot of different things to help them get out of the loop. Lastly, find some tried-and-true ways to solve this problem that have worked in the past.
Also, if you don’t have any luck, none of these options will help you show the album art. Music files automatically add cover art for songs and albums. If your music library files don’t load the album art and all you see is a generic music icon, you may want to read this article. If you want to learn more about Apple Music, go to the official website for it.