Unable to restore Apple Music artwork after accidental deletion

I used DaisyDisk to clear out my storage because I stupidly bought a 256GB Macbook (separate issue) and ended up accidentally deleting my Apple Music Artwork Cache.

I have quite a large library and work in music so this is going to be quite problematic if I'm unable to fix it.

I have tried the advice written elsewhere in the community, where you delete the ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.AMPArtworkAgent/Data/Documents folder and then reboot but it has not seemed to work.

I've also tried simply - File > Library > Get Album Artwork - to no success.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Posted on Oct 15, 2026 4:51 AM

1 reply

sooperfresh

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Oct 15, 2026 4:52 PM in response to jakegoff8

Get Album Artwork only finds covers for albums Apple sells, so anything ripped or bought elsewhere won't come back that way. If you have a Time Machine backup from before the DaisyDisk run, quit Music and restore ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.AMPArtworkAgent from it, that's the folder you lost. Without a backup, the covers you added by hand have to be added again. For the future, Katalog (musickatalog.com) runs alongside the Music app and writes the cover into the music file itself, so clearing a cache can't take it.