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Home sharing on iOS may not display some libraries
Authored by: squalene on Mar 13, '11 02:19:17PM

I had this problem, and resetting the library id on the Mac I had copied my library to did fix it.
HOWEVER, doing that also disappeared roughly 1/3 of the album artwork in the reset library.

Apparently Apple stores images either within the track itself, or in some other location (not 'Album Artwork') which is lost when the library is reset.

Fortunately, I had an up to date backup of the iTunes folder.
I copied that, then ran the 'Embed Artwork' script
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=embedart
on the copy.

Initially that gave "parameter errors", but a bit of recoding to the script:
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repeat with aTrack in sel
try
repeat with anArtwork in artworks of aTrack
if downloaded of anArtwork is true then
if preflight is equal to false then
set theData to data of anArtwork
set data of anArtwork to theData
end if
set num to num + 1
end if
end repeat
on error msg number ernum
display dialog msg & "\r" & ernum & "\r" & result & "\n" & (name of aTrack as string) & "\n" & id of aTrack as string
end try
end repeat
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let me ferret out and fix the problem tracks: (export track, delete itunes track,import track back in worked)

Once that was done, applying the 'Embed Artwork' script to the entire music library resulted in every track having art that survives resetting the library.

BACK UP BEFORE YOU TRY THIS TIP!




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