Download Apple Music Artwork
Giordano Matias
Whilst this tool should work for most artwork, there may be a few outliers that don't work if they are deeply personalised and thus not available publicly. If you run into any problems, feel free to message me.
NEW: You can now search for Apple Music playlists, albums and stations with my new Apple Music Artwork Finder which includes uncompressed artwork and animated artwork where applicable.
NEW: I've created a new tool, Apple TV Shows & Movies Artwork Finder, to support the new 16:9 aspect ratio used in the TV app in iOS 12.3, macOS Catalina, and Apple TV. There is also a whole host of additional artwork including ultrawide banners, logos, and parallax files.
This project started out as a simple tool for using the iTunes Search API to download 600x600px artwork for TV shows. However, it became a lot more popular than I expected and requests were made to add movie and iBook artwork. I've added these in addition to incorporating album artwork and app icons from the App Store.
I've included two links at the top of each piece of artwork; standard resolution and high resolution. The standard resolution will generally be 600x600px and is the size that is displayed inline. The high resolution can be anything; I've found instances of movie artwork at 1600x2400px and TV shows up to 2400x2400px. However, the high resolution does not always work, particularly for iBooks, Movies, and Albums (albums are now working thanks to a tip from John Leustek). It seems to depend on the country and studio involved but you generally need a special key to get that high res artwork and you can only get that key by purchasing something from iTunes (and then it only lasts a short while). With app icons, there is only one artwork link which will give you a 1024x1024px file; just click on the app icon.
IMPORTANT: This website gets artwork directly from iTunes. If the film / TV show you are looking for is not available on iTunes (i.e. it's a film that hasn't been released yet or is a network exclusive like a Netflix show) then you won't find it here. Please do not email me asking to add extra artwork as it doesn't work that way - this is just a quick way of getting artwork from iTunes.
Album motion makes your album artwork come alive. Motion artwork provides a richer experience for your audience by helping set a mood or accentuate the concept of an album, before anyone presses Play.
These templates appear on iPad, Mac, and smart TVs. The entire canvas of the Album Page Motion 1x1 is safe to place artwork. There are no UI elements that need to be considered. Download the template.
The examples throughout this guide showcase how to create engaging album art that follows our standards and guidelines. Review the Apple Music Style Guide for more information on accepted artwork and guidance for content delivery.
The entire canvas of the Album Page motion 1x1 is safe to place artwork. The Album Page motion 3x4 includes UI elements that need to be considered as you create your art. A safe area guide is provided in our downloadable templates for you to toggle on and off to check your artwork placement.
Motion art should not be pixelated or blurry. It should be created from high-resolution source files, as the artwork will appearon high-resolution displays. Do not try to increase the resolution of motion deliverables from low-resolution files.
I don't use any subscription service. My Mac with iTunes got obsoleted and I had to move my iTunes library to a newer Mac with Apple Music on it. Ever since then I have had these issues with syncing my music to my devices. The album artwork does not transfer over to my devices, and seemingly at random, music that I've synced that I was listening to just fine a few weeks ago will just disappear when I attempt to play it. I have to delete all my music from my phone and resync it all to get it back.
I have a growing impression that Apple just doesn't consider my use case important anymore, they'd rather only support subscribers who stream Apple's music. So, alternatively, is Apple Music still the only way to get my own music files onto my phone? I'd like to migrate to an app that seems more focused on my use case and my needs.
We understand that the album artwork disappears after syncing your music library with your iPhone and iPad with your Mac. In order to correct this issue, you have to delete your music and sync it once again. To clarify, did you experience this behavior after making any changes to your devices, such as updating the software? We ask because this is unexpected behavior and could be related to the software.
Same issue as well. I'm stuck on "loading artwork". Only 120 out of roughly 800 album cover's artwork has loaded on my 2017 iMac. Thank goodness this Mac is only used to host my music with only 8 GBs of RAM with 4+ GBs used by Music this could take quite awhile to complete. Music is consuming 42% of my CPU right now. It's basically unusable with constant beachballs if you try and execute any other commands or use other apps.
After logging in after the restart, any app I try to open now responds instantly. If you're running out of horsepower like I was trying to load artwork you might want to try closing Music's open window (don't quit Music) and then perform a restart with Music set to launch after the restart. Don't maximize the Music UI after the restart, just make sure it's running indicated by the black dot under its icon in the dock.
Same problem here. Music is constantly grabbing all the memory it can get its hands on and I've had to pull the plug on it a couple of times when its got up to around 50GB as it's used all the physical memory (16GB) and is ravenously grabbing more and making the whole Mac unusable. Automatically update artwork is unchecked and it's not making the slightest bit of difference. Everything else with Catalina has gone really smoothly, but Music is currently pretty much unusable.
For whatever reason at this end Apple Music has stopped trying to load my artwork. I'd say only about 30% of the albums have their covers so I'll have to manually reupload the covers if I want cover art. It feels preferable to being unable to use my iMac as Apple Music quickly swallows up all available memory (24 GB).
I'm no better off than last night. A handful of artwork has downloaded but 85% or more is still missing. As soon as I open the Music interface memory usage hits 7GBs of my 8GBs of RAM and the UI still hangs at "loading artwork"
I had good progress during the night since roughly 10.000 songs got their artwork (through Energy Saver I prevented the hard disk to sleep). To my surprise, Get Album Artwork got almost 500 additional. It appears it's over and the balance is 2.000 artworks missing.
What was hanging and eating memory hand over fist last night was accomplished in about five minutes this morning via the Music>File>Library>Get Album Artwork route, and looking at the activity monitor it was churning through the artwork at good speed. Not sure if something changed server-side or what, but for the moment all seems to be well. Which is nice...
We used to have similar issues in iTunes. Just getting iTunes to see artwork you have added to your library would, historically, take more effort than it should. However, at worst, the Get Info dance would fix this, and iTunes would show any artwork that has been added.
The next step was to get even dirtier and open up the database used by Music.app to store this information. If I could find and understand the underlying data maybe I could reason how the album artwork metadata is stored?
The database storing album artwork metadata is in /Library/Containers/com.apple.AMPArtworkAgent/Data/Documents/artworkd.sqlite. Additionally, artwork is stored with generated references inside the artwork sub folder.
Earlier this year I transitioned from a Mojave 27" iMac to a Monterey Mac Studio. This involved transitioning from iTunes to Music app for a 20k song library. Bringing in the library actually worked better than I expected, but Music seems to have problems with Album Art. I understand that it pulls art from its Database and from the ID3 (so maybe I lost stuff in the DB transfer), most of the library previously had artwork attached... but the behavior it currently exhibits doesn't make any sense. The main problem is that most albums show NO art in Get Info>Artwork tab... as well as almost nothing displays a thumbnail in the left side of songs display... BUT most of the albums will display their proper album art in the mini-player and art thumbnail in the top now playing info box upon playing.
Hi, that sounds like a reasonable explanation. Thank you for your response. Which file/folder should I delete specifically? Attached is a pic of the data in that location you specified: [unsure if this matters: I keep my Music (actual files) folder inside my Documents folder, and in the attached jpg the documents>artwork folder has about 1300 cover art pics in it]:
I went ahead and deleted the "Documents" Folder in there. Then killed AMPArtworkAgent process, and reloaded Music. I scrolled through my albums on artwork view and it rebuilt 619 cached covers into the 'artwork' folder... (there were 1310 in the folder I removed)... But it is still doing same behavior. Won't show album art to left of song, or in Get Info, but displays when track is played.
Music/Tunes should display art in most views provided at least one track from the album has embedded or associated artwork. The cache should automatically update whenever there is a request to show a relevant image. That said it seems the cache in Music gets stuck sometimes. The artwork cache should be stored at /Library/Containers/com.apple.AMPArtworkAgent/Data/Documents where is your user's home folder. Deleting the cache should force it to be rebuilt. Perhaps Music will do a better job next time around.
Is using the Apple Music REST api to get album artwork via the OpenGraph API also disallowed such that my app would be rejected? Wonder if I should pursue this option that I found or if I need to find another way? Seems like the answer would be no, but wanted to double check.
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