"Now Playing" Artwork is available but isn't fetched with macOS players

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The problem

I set up the Apple TV integration for my Mac so I could access the artwork in Home Assistant. Surprisingly, it wasn't shown. I set up pyatv directly and noticed that atvremote artwork did show the album art.

It looks like the problem may be in this line:

https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/dev/homeassistant/components/apple_tv/media_player.py#L358

When I run atvremote features, it shows artwork as Unknown. But, if I remove that check, the art shows up properly in home assistant.

Why I think this may be a bug in the component, and not the underlying library, is that the comment in https://github.com/postlund/pyatv/blob/e370ee1931eabaf1f1fc7fb15ecc7a9a92821c3f/pyatv/protocols/dmap/__init__.py#L76 specifically says "we don't [know] now if available". There's also a test that the feature is always unknown, so that makes me think the above conditional can never return true. I'm guessing artwork from an AppleTV works fine because it must use mrp instead of dmap, but I haven't checked.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2024.5.3

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Apple TV

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/apple_tv/

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

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Hey there @postlund, mind taking a look at this issue as it has been labeled with an integration (apple_tv) you are listed as a code owner for? Thanks!

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