Using Minimserver with iTunes

[Barheys]

Hi,

I have been an Apple iTunes user for sometime now and have built up a library of around 22k tracks. I have recently acquired some decent HiFi kit and the manufacturers (Arcam) suggested that to use their own App (Music Life) for streaming music to their kit, it would be better for me to install and use Minimserver as it works well with their setup.

Accordingly, I installed Minimserver on my Mac (iMac with Catalina) and sure enough, Music Life does indeed link up well with Minimserver. But........ I have two problems :-

1) Minimserver has thrown up error messages for around 3000 tracks - The log reports "Error: couldn't access file ......." Looking at the files, most are classical pieces but there are other ones there too so its not obvious to me what wrong here or what I need to fix

2) I'm not getting any artwork with any of my music. The directory on my machine that Minimserver points to is the iTunes one and underneath that I believe the music and artwork live in separate directories. I tried to put a png file in one of the directories where the music tracks live to see if that might help but it doesn't seem to have

I am hoping therefore that someone out there might have an idea as to what's going on and what I need to fix as I surely can't be the first or only person to have had a go at this ?

Thanks in advance :-)