Itunes large Album art display broken for a long while now.

kiboy6 wrote:

At the moment I am stuck on 12.11.3.17 due to this issue.

I'm not sure I understand why you're stuck on an old version of iTunes as a consequence of this issue, but that said, you will be disappointed to learn that the same problem exists in iTunes 12.12.2.2, albeit that my window is transparent, no black.

To be honest, I didn't even know of the feature as I simply neat-click the art icon to pull up the part-sized window with the Up Next list.

You could try Apple Feedback at https://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html and select Broken Feature from the drop-down menu on that form. Note that you will not receive any response and that Apple may - or may not, fix the feature, which I agree, is broken.

kiboy6 wrote:

I say I'm "stuck" on my old Itunes version only because the full screen album art display is a super important feature to me. I like to have Full screen album art displaying while I have music on in the room, and the Itunes full screen album art actually looks pretty great ...

Well, that's your choice, but I'm not sure I understand why this makes you "stuck" on an out-of-date version of iTunes that doesn't do what you want.

In order to fix the problem (if they ever do) Apple will release a revised version of iTunes with a new release number, but you won't benefit from that until you update to that newer version. At this time, you must be seeing "there's a newer version of iTunes" messages which you may well end up ignoring if you're not already doing so. More than likely then is that you will miss the update that fixes the issue that you care about. But if you updated to the current version of iTunes, the only time that you will see the "there's a newer version..." message is when it might (note the word "might") be the one you want.

kiboy6 wrote:

Yeah, I'm certainly not going to go the trouble of uninstalling my old version and installing every new release of Itunes ...

But that's not what you do!

Updating iTunes means letting iTunes download and install the new version for you. All you need to do is click the update button. There is always one slight issue; that is that if you have an icon for iTunes permanently added to your Taskbar, it will turn blank-white and become ineffective and you will need to delete it and put a new one in its place. That's not actually a major task - and certainly far easier than uninstalling existing software and then installing the updated version of that software once again.

While deleting and re-installing software (apps) on a portable device, (phones and iPods etc.) is usually a piece of cake, doing so on a Windows machine is a far more onerous task. I dislike doing it.

... I choose not to follow the normal practice of running the most up to date version of such a common piece of desktop software.

Hhhmmm! I'm not sure that is such a good idea. Updates to iTunes include fixes to things you may not have noticed (yet), as well as security improvements. Why would you want to run software that might be open to hacking etc.? Not to mention enhanced or new features.

Still, once again it is your choice.