BertL,
Thanks! The 53 page bug list does have some interesting insight into the Media Player/Album Art issue that has been around since I purchased my car over two years ago.
I had originally written an Applescript to rename the genre to a playlist name to work around Tesla's lack of playlist support (why does this seem to be so hard!) and shared it with this forum. In response, Teslatunes was written by another user and, at the time, improved on my script and was a native Mac app with more features. So far so good.
It looks like 8.0 has changed everything, except sometimes it doesn't. Still trying determine what works where. IMHO it shouldn't be as much of a mystery as it is.
I'd really like for the media player to just work. Too much overhead in managing audio which most other high-end cars handle. Hence my frustration...
I agree that it looks like Teslatunes does not (or maybe the XLD code) handle the transfer of album art correctly. Don't know where the problem is with my library but I am testing a couple of different scenarios. At this point, it does look like the Apple lossless to Flac conversion is the challenge. But, why can't it just work...
I'll search the forum but any quick links to what others are using to manage their libraries? I saw a number of programs listed in the bug list but didn't see any that focused on creating playlists. Most were on managing "outside of iTunes" files which for me is a non-starter.
Thanks again for the pointers.
Lee