No cover art for local Music library files on windows, iOS works fine.

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- I add a track to Apple Music on Windows and add a cover by going to the track's properties or using a program like MP3tag (makes no difference).
- When I open Apple Music on my iPhone, the cover shows up fine.
- Spotify on all my devices is configured to also find Local Music library tracks, and the songs have been downloaded to all devices with Apple Music.
- When I open Spotify on my iPhone, the cover shows up fine (so we know the cover art is successfully added to the metadata; otherwise, it would not show up here).
- If I look up the same track in Spotify on any of my Windows devices, the cover art stays blank.

Is there anything I can do so the cover art shows up on every device?

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Figured it out myself. Even if you use MP3tag to add the cover art to the MP3, on Windows, when you download the song from Apple Music to a local Windows device, it splits the MP3 and the cover into separate files again, removing the cover from the MP3 metadata. It probably does not do this on iOS, hence the cover on iOS will show up in Apple Music and Spotify there no problem. So, either Spotify has to build in support for Apple Music's way of using cover art on Windows, or Apple Music has to leave the MP3 intact with the art in the metadata.

Knowing both Spotify and Apple for a whole lot of years now, probably neither will do this, and we're stuck with a half-baked implementation of adding local songs to multiple devices at once.

If you're on Windows and skip Apple Music altogether and just add local files from a folder to a playlist in Spotify, it does include the cover artwork, but you cannot play that song on your other devices unless you add the song to your playlist multiple times, one for every device. Let's say I have a Windows tablet and a PC. If I add the song to a playlist via a folder sync on my tablet, it will work on my tablet. But if I try to play that same song from the playlist on my PC, it says it's not available, even though it's also locally available there, same file, same location. I would have to add it from the PC to that same playlist as a duplicate, having the same song in your playlist twice. I can then play one of the two, and the other will say its not available depending on the device I am on. It's one or the other.

I cannot believe such a simple basic feature is so poorly implemented. It's very VERY frustrating, to say the least.