iTunes Now Playing album art

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FAO: (@adampk90 )

Pretty cool plugin! But I'm unable to get the album artwork at the menubar for iTunes. Any ideas on how to tweak the plugin script to get this working?

Also, it depends on what mode of music you're using. Apple Music [streaming music] doesn't display the album artwork.

Seems to work only for the music that is locally present on the system.

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I ran the following command to check if artwork was being fetched correctly:

For artwork from Apple Music on iTunes

➜ osascript -e 'tell application "iTunes" to artwork 1 of current track'
artwork 1 of URL track id 2855 of playlist id 2637 of source id 1623

For artwork from Apple Music on iTunes

➜ osascript -e 'tell application "iTunes" to artwork 1 of current track'
artwork 1 of shared track id 1054 of user playlist id 1051 of source id 69

The most significant difference I could see is URL track id and shared track id with respect to artwork from Apple music [while streaming] and artwork from the sytem [saved songs in the library]

So seems like it gets the correct artwork, but just doesn't display it. Any way to debug this?

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Artwork element list is not exposed through iTunes scriptability, so no album artwork for Apple Music! 👎

Only the music that is in the library will display the artwork. For apple music, the song just needs to be added to library, no need to download it.

More details here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37455735/how-to-access-apple-music-album-art-in-itunes-via-apple-script