after too many hours of checking the various websites recommended here (and many thanks for those recommendations, folks!) i’ve apparently found all my missing album art. phew!
I’m curious as to what happened? Was it a temporary glitch? Or did you find a way to re-add album art en masse?
neither: i spent hours looking for missing art and adding it to the bereft - one at a time. for a few albums, the art i was able to find was deficient, too. the entire process left me fuming at apple’s software engineering -er- talent. but thankful for the helpful suggestions from this lot.
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Do not blame “software engineering -er talent.” These kind of change decisions come from Marketing and Product Managers, many of whom have never used the products.
heh! i work in software engineering, albeit on the paranoid side of the house. you are correct about the fog generated by marketing and product management folks but engineers are responsible to scoping out their projects and q/a for ensuring it all works correctly, even after an update. apple engineering failed on both these tasks. and this is just a minor irritant compared with some of their faceplants.
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I don’t listen to music on my Mac all that much anymore, but when I did I used this site to find album covers.
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Another good source of album artwork is Album Art Exchange:
My experience upgrading my iTunes library to Catalina was similarly painful. In my case, I had copied my iTunes library to an external disk, bought a replacement iMac, and tried to point the new Music app at the external disk iTunes Library location. Nothing worked. Found some kludge on the net to preserve playlists, but things like ratings and play counts, etc. would be lost.
It was pretty discouraging overall, and the worst “out of box” experience I have ever had with an Apple product (my first Mac was a Plus…)
I was about to give up and live with the damage when it occurred to me that maybe my iTunes library was too old for the Music migration process. So I carried that external drive over to my Mac mini running Mojave and opened the iTunes library on it. After quitting iTunes, I saw there was a new iTunes library database file.
Music was then able to import with no issues.
So… be aware that Music in Catalina has limited backward compatibility with older iTunes libraries.
Any idea if your workaround in Mojave will also work with High Sierra?