Certain animated album artworks have issues on Auto quality

[92555]

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Download Source

Microsoft Store

Operating System

Windows 11

Commit Hash

098a60e1301a58f734d21064b2a2bcfc9b4b1520

Connect Instance ID

not-logged-in

Build Timestamp

5/30/2024, 12:04:36 AM

Describe the Bug

Similar to #502, #576, possibly #627.

Animated album art for some albums is displayed incorrectly, when set to auto. The issue goes away if quality is set to level 1 or 8, untested with other levels.
This issue also occurs in Immersive mode, where it is much more noticeable especially when pausing / playing the track (as animated art is replaced with standard art on pause).

Expected behavior: Animated album art appears correctly. (Image is when animated art quality = level 8.)

Bug: Animated album art is clearly displayed with incorrect contrast.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Enable & set Animated Art quality to (Auto)
2. Load animated album art by viewing album page or play a song from that album in Immersive mode.
3. If the album art is affected, it will appear washed out or too dark.

Anything else?

Using NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, on driver 555.85.

Some albums where the issue, if reproducible, is clearly visible:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/1989-taylors-version-deluxe/1713845538
https://music.apple.com/us/album/3-feet-high-and-rising/1657705063
https://music.apple.com/us/album/whole-lotta-red/1546163603

Some albums that do not exhibit this issue:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/graduation/1451901307
https://music.apple.com/us/album/songs-in-the-key-of-life/1440788438

[github-actions]

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[coredev-uk]

Artwork lighting differing is usually down to a rendering issue with WebView2. There is a bug report open for it, but we are moving away from it to dotnet, which should fix this issue.