All my album art has turned into a random image from a podcast

Has no one followed up on this? I have the same problem, and I can't believe that Apple expects everyone to manually replace the album art for the thousands of album that they lost with their eff up. It seems that Apple no longer has much interest in supporting users with our own local music collections who don't subscribe to their paid streaming service. Do they at least allow third party solutions to local music management or do we have to migrate away from Apple? iTunes and its presumably competent music library management was the whole reason I entered the Apple ecosystem.

I’ve just started having this issue. Really annoying.

Rob, do you honestly expect users to manually upload artwork for the potentially thousands of affected albums all over again? Is this what Apple is telling us to do to solve the problems created by Apple's buggy updates, commit dozens or hundreds of hours of our own time into manually finding and replacing unexpectedly deleted album art for potentially thousands of albums?

Your dealing with Tim crook now, he is only interested in making money so they abandon all software were they don't make money. Steve Jobs and his legacy of excellence is dead, now is not a creative company, only profit money. That is why Itunes, now “Music" is always trying to sell you their inferior subscription, (nothing compared to spotify) but like many, if you have your own library, even CD’s you purchase and downloaded to your computer, the Iphone will create a random artwork, sometimes from a podcast or anywhere at random. I rather have just the music note with no logo that my Macbook assigns than have a random artwork that has nothing to do with the album. But nobody answers how to stop the iphone from assiging a random artwork. This is the beginning of the end of "great apple ”becoming "mediocre apple” profitable like Microsoft, but mediocre.

I've been having this issue for a long time. Nothing fixes it. Very frustrating.

Hey there natekapi,

Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities. We're happy to provide some assistance.

You can change artwork for songs, albums, and music videos by following the actions here:

Add artwork to content in Music on Mac - Apple Support

Add artwork to content in Music on Mac

Songs, albums, and music videos you buy from the iTunes Store or download from Apple Music come with artwork. You can also add your own artwork to any song or other item in your library.

You can add many types of still-image files, including JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and Photoshop. You must convert WAV files to another format before you can add artwork to them.

You can also change the artwork for any playlist in your library.

Add artwork to music and video

1. In the Music app  on your Mac, click Songs in the sidebar.

2. Select one or more songs in your music library, choose Song > Info, click Artwork, then do one of the following:

* Click Add Artwork, select an image file, then click Open.

* Drag the image file to the artwork area.

To retrieve album artwork from the iTunes Store for your entire library, choose File > Library > Get Album Artwork.

Change a playlist’s artwork

You can personalize any playlist by adding your own artwork.

1. In the Music app  on your Mac, select a playlist in the sidebar.

2. Do one of the following:

* Click the artwork area at the top left of the playlist, then choose an image file.

* Drag an image file to the artwork area.

5.

6. Click Done.

Have a great day!

natekapi,

In this case, you may want to Contact Apple Support or use this Get Support link for assistance as it is not working as expected and standard steps won't resolve your issue.

Take care.