# MAC: iTunes Album Art

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mac-itunes-album-art/52293
**Category:** Mac
**Created:** [March 9, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mac-itunes-album-art/52293 "2021-03-09T00:21:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![brainframe](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/brainframe/32/9004_2.png) [@brainframe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/brainframe)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mac-itunes-album-art/52293/1 "2021-03-09T00:21:22Z")

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I run a artist and get clean meta + album art.  
However, when I view in iTunes little to nothing’s changed.  
Some album art shows up, some doesn’t. Same with the other data.

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2021, 5:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mac-itunes-album-art/52293/2 "2021-03-09T05:26:49Z")

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If MP3tag shows the changes then I would assume that this is an iTunes problem.  
You have to trigger itunes to re-read the data.  
One way would be to delete the entry from iTunes and then re-import the files.

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2021, 7:03am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mac-itunes-album-art/52293/3 "2021-03-09T07:03:39Z")

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There was also a compatibility issue with v1.0.2 which triggered a bug in iTunes:

> [@Problem with Adjust Cover Quick Action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-with-adjust-cover-quick-action/52281/2):
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> Hi and welcome! I think the issue you're observing is due to a bug in iTunes/Music.app which can be observed with the version of Mp3tag you're using (v1.0.2). With this version I've changed the encoding of the cover description to match the global settings from Preferences → Tag Formats, which was UTF-16 in your case. From the [changelog](https://mp3tag.app/changelog/): Fixed: ID3v2 cover description only supported characters of ISO-8859-1 Unfortunately, it became clear quite quickly that iTunes has problems with this (—…

So if you're using v1.0.2 make sure to update 🙂
