[Bug] Album art not showing on apple music

[Xcode1234]

What happened? What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

Up-to date album art is not working.

What did you expect to happen?

Album Art to display as the next track is loaded

BoringNotch Version

v2.7.2

macOS Version

Version 26.2 Beta (25C5048a)

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[Alexander5015]

AppleScript for Apple Music (the backend for the Apple Music only option) was broken by Apple in macOS 26.0. Afaik this is still the case which means we cannot fix this, and Now Playing is the only reliable option for Apple Music on macOS > 26 right now. It's mostly broken for songs that are not in your local music library, are you streaming or playing from a local file?

[Xcode1234]

Streaming

[Alexander5015]

I'll have to take a look at macOS 26 when I have the chance, but the new Music app in macOS 26 has been very buggy for other people as well trying to automate the app and must be fixed by Apple. This is likely also the issue with the favourite item button not working. Using Now Playing should fix the album art, but it won't fix the favourite button(we still use the same method for favourite because Now Playing only gives us song info and playback control)