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In the case of these videos, when played via the MC app there ARE correct thumbnails beside the videos and they play perfectly via MC app on the iPad.

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While writing this I recalled that in my iTunes Media folder I do have a few mp4 music videos – from YouTube downloads I made years ago. Dealing with Apple would be a waste of time. Even odder, some of the songs in the same album, having the same artwork, make the list while others dont. I am working with WD toresolve the issue. Sounded like a good answer but on my itunes on Macbook Air, this finds 439 songs with no artwork, yet many of them when I look at them in the playlist, I see album artwork. This all indicates to me that the issue is centered with the MC app not reading the iTunes Media folder correctly, whereas other apps and hardware can. Videos have a thumbnail beside them in the MC app, but the videos are not within the iTunes folder. All display the artwork for music files except the MC app which displays the default “broken file” icon for album art.

I use a variety of apps to play my music or videos from the NAS, including the MC app.

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Music is either from my CD collection or my download serve, eMusic. None of my music or videos was downloaded from iTunes store. You can find out more about it on GitHub.I notice a similar problem with my copy of iTunes Media folder on my WD DL2100 NAS. Perhaps it is useful to some of the lone wolves out there who still prefer to curate their digital music collection by hand.

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If you are on macOS you can install it via Homebrew. Its name and function is inspired by youtube-dl and you-get, two tools I like and use regularly 🤟. The result is albumart-dl a free and open-source command-line tool that lets you download album art from Apple’s servers. So I set myself the challenge to improve my Python skills and get some experience with packaging and distributing a Python application. In fact, the highest resolution file I have downloaded was 3000 x 3000 px. Apple’s API is actually smart enough to automatically return the highest resolution image even if our specified resolution of 5000 x 5000 px does not exist. Turns out we can download high-quality album art by simply modifying the height and width values in those image URLs, e.g. By default, Apple’s JSON response object contains two album art related keys, artworkUrl60 and artworkUrl100.

Recently I was playing around with Apple’s iTunes Search API. 🔍 Peeking at Apple’s iTunes Search APIįast forward 10 years. They would allow me to automatically create collections such as “2012 Hits” or “Top Albums” so that I could easily listen to my favorites.įinding a high-resolution image of an album’s cover art could sometimes take a substantial amount of time, especially if that piece of music sat at the fringes of musical genres. One of iTunes’ rarely used features that would use this information is Smart Playlists. That way I could easily generate different lists of music. Then I would tag this group of files with a diverse set of metadata such as the year it was published or its musical genre. I would put each of my CDs into my CD-ROM drive’s tray and, one after the other, create a collection of MP3 (later AAC) files. Back then, I used to put a lot of time and care into my music collection. I remember the old days before music streaming became ubiquitous.

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