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Q: iTunes 12.5.1 Artist View Massive?

since the update the Album cover size and text got massive in artist view, is there a way to reduce this back to its small original size?


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Posted on Sep 13, 2016 2:56 PM

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Q: iTunes 12.5.1 Artist View Massive?

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  • by MacBoy70,

    MacBoy70 MacBoy70 Sep 14, 2016 8:47 AM in response to XxRagnarockxX
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    Sep 14, 2016 8:47 AM in response to XxRagnarockxX

    And what about all the empty (except for microphone) bubbles? How do I fill them in?

  • by Ian Kelleigh,

    Ian Kelleigh Ian Kelleigh Sep 14, 2016 9:02 AM in response to XxRagnarockxX
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    Sep 14, 2016 9:02 AM in response to XxRagnarockxX

    It looks like for Artist view, the album art size is based on how wide your window is. As you shrink the window the art shrinks too.

     

    The only view with album art size settings is Songs view.

     

    Personally I don't mind large album art, but I can see where it would be annoying if an album only had a few songs, or if there were a lot of single tracks there would be a lot of scrolling. They should really let us change album art size in any view.

  • by poikkeus1,

    poikkeus1 poikkeus1 Sep 14, 2016 10:24 AM in response to XxRagnarockxX
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    Sep 14, 2016 10:24 AM in response to XxRagnarockxX

    I prefer the large size, too.

     

    And no, I don't know if there's a way to change the album size.

  • by gregv1977,

    gregv1977 gregv1977 Sep 16, 2016 8:36 AM in response to poikkeus1
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    Sep 16, 2016 8:36 AM in response to poikkeus1

    I don't understand, did XxRagnarockxX ask what you prefer? Did XxRagnarockxX ask a question that one needs to chime in if one doesn't have an answer? I apologize for posting off topic but not for lashing out at poikkeus1, as I can't stand when people chime in with useless unsolicited crap responses that waist my time reading. Again, my apologize for going off topic and wasting your time. #grindsmygears

  • by Ian Kelleigh,

    Ian Kelleigh Ian Kelleigh Sep 16, 2016 8:41 AM in response to gregv1977
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    Sep 16, 2016 8:41 AM in response to gregv1977

    gregv1977 wrote:

     

    I can't stand when people chime in with useless unsolicited crap responses that waist my time reading.

     

    That makes two of us.

  • by MajorIP4,

    MajorIP4 MajorIP4 Sep 16, 2016 10:29 AM in response to Ian Kelleigh
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    Sep 16, 2016 10:29 AM in response to Ian Kelleigh

    I talked w/Apple Support today about the artist view and why there are so many mic icons vs artists. They tried everything and conceded that it must be their library that doesn't have the icons.

  • by Ninetou,

    Ninetou Ninetou Sep 23, 2016 6:46 AM in response to XxRagnarockxX
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    Sep 23, 2016 6:46 AM in response to XxRagnarockxX

    I filed a complaint about it at http://www.apple.com/feedback/ .

    I maintain massive music library so seeing a lot of it at once makes navigating through it much faster.

    On my 1440p screen new Artist View in 12.5 BARELY fits 3 albums. With 12.4 I was able to see almost 6 albums at once of any given artist. This is pretty much 2x less content. Regressions in ergonomics and usability count as massive issues. I ended up downgrading to 12.4 because I honestly can't take this BS. Broken Artist Art is yet another issue.

    See screenshots I took to compare Artist View in 12.4 and 12.5:

    iTunes 12.4:

    Screen Shot 2016-09-23 at 14.02.22.png

    iTunes 12.5:

    Screen Shot 2016-09-23 at 13.49.57.png

     

    OT: I'm getting sick and tired of Apple's recent UI decisions, size of notifications in iOS10 vs 9 could serve as yet another example.

  • by majamaki,

    majamaki majamaki Sep 27, 2016 6:11 AM in response to Ninetou
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    Sep 27, 2016 6:11 AM in response to Ninetou

    I don't understand why they don't put options that allow us to change the sizes as we see fit.  Why not just include a size slider like photos?  That way everyone can adjust to have it however they like.

  • by RikkBubbaBEAR,Apple recommended

    RikkBubbaBEAR RikkBubbaBEAR Sep 29, 2016 5:25 AM in response to XxRagnarockxX
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    Sep 29, 2016 5:25 AM in response to XxRagnarockxX

    I may have found the solution. If you put your cursor along the division area between columns, you can resize the columns, thus resizing the album art and the appearance of the way the album information text is displayed. I have two screen shots to illustrate. You can see my Column Resize Cursor and the column size difference, which gives you some flexibility with your album size.  Hope this helps.

    screenshot one.png

     

    screenshot two.png

  • by Ninetou,

    Ninetou Ninetou Sep 29, 2016 10:37 AM in response to RikkBubbaBEAR
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    Sep 29, 2016 10:37 AM in response to RikkBubbaBEAR

    Well, they real issue here is significant decrease in the amount of content visible at once. I appreciate the suggestion but unfortunately it still doesn't solve the underlaying issue. In fact it makes it worse since according to your screenshot only one album is visible whereas previously you had two.

  • by emashirito,

    emashirito emashirito Oct 2, 2016 1:41 AM in response to XxRagnarockxX
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    Oct 2, 2016 1:41 AM in response to XxRagnarockxX

    Yep, same problem here. Large library, cover preview is not displaying on the left column and the size of the cover on the right is big and I was not able to find the command to resize it. Browsing the help menu is not helping and here i am not finding solution to this visualization/usability problem. Please Apple restore this function and make again possible to see the cover also on the left column!