Apple Music MacOS 15.3.2 - A lot of Album Art is Missing

I have a lot of stretches where album art has disappeared in Apple Music. It is on multiple stretches of like 20 albums missing the artwork. I have tried clearing the folder from the library - container folder already. The left side shows 6 folders right above the artwork that works on the right side. Both from 6 months ago.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.3

Posted on Mar 29, 2025 05:23 PM

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ShawnyDollaz Author

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Mar 29, 2025 05:42 PM in response to ShawnyDollaz

This also just happened randomly a few days ago. All of the artwork was there in my library that was in my screenshots. Now I have these random stretches or just random albums missing the art work now. Hundreds of albums.

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