Replacing 'Album Artwork' folder in macOS Tahoe Apple Music

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Replacing 'Album Artwork' folder in macOS Tahoe Apple Music

Where does Tahoe Apple Music 1.6.0.151 store the "Album Artwork" for each album? I have recently migrated from a 2015 Apple MacBook Pro to a Mac mini 4 and the artwork I spent 10 years perfecting, HIGH RES and a beautiful thing to view, has now been decimated with wrong artist/album/etc. I'd copied my entire 22GB of photos to a folder and would like to replace the existing "Album Artwork" folder with mine. Is this possible or did Apple just break my heart again?

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Original Title: Album Artwork Folder

Mac mini, macOS 26.0

Posted on Nov 1, 2025 12:34 PM

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turingtest2

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Nov 3, 2025 9:23 AM in response to RodgerDodger13

Apple Music should read any embedded artwork from your media, and place it in a new cache hidden somewhere in your profile. It has a completely different structure to the old iTunes Album Artwork folder. Occasionally a new instance of Music doesn't appear to populate this cache correctly. Blowing it away and relaunching the computer, or the background process responsible, seems to help.

Delete the folder ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.AMPArtworkAgent/Data/Documents, where ~ is your user's home folder, and then empty the trash. Show hidden files and folders with Shift+Cmd+. to aid your navigation.

Reboot the computer or use Activity Monitor to find and terminate a process named AMPArtworkAgent, which should start when you launch Music.

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