Album Cover in Playlist (at top) not updating

Yiaars wrote:

BTW - I created a new playlist last night and the quad of first 4 songs albums covers appeared and were there until I migrated to a different screen and then back. When I came back they were there for an instant and then replaced with the pathetic Apple-supplied cover art. In addition when you look at existing playlists you will seen that the quad of album covers appear as an option in the edit function. This should be easy to fix I’d Apple gave a ****. They sure take our money for Apple Music.

This might be one of those occasions where it is worth trashing the artwork cache so that Music can rebuild it. The location is a hidden folder at ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.AMPArtworkAgent/Data/Documents where ~ is your user's home folder. With Music closed you would delete the Documents folder on that path, empty the trash, then launch Music. If all goes well it will rebuild your playlist thumbnails as they are supposed to be. Might be best to ensure you have a backup of this folder that you could restore in case that simply makes matters worse.

tt2

Create a new list and drag the items from the old list to the new one. Hopefully the new one shows the art as expected, and you can then delete the old list and rename the new one.

tt2

I had the quad for a split second so screenshot it and then set the screenshot as the album cover. The new update is abysmal.

iOS 17 on iPhone is awful. Playlist cover at top is no longer the 1st 4 song’s album cover, it is crappy generic art Apple selects and there is no way to fix it in the iPhone. Please fix this immediately.

reasnableman wrote:

Apple can we please fix this? Ridiculous, unnecessary, and depressing change.

They're not listening here. Use Feedback - Apple Music - Apple.

tt2

Absolutely devastated and just as upset as Yiaars. The playlists I create are an art form to me and I couldn’t be more disgusted by this change. Bring back the covers with the first four. ASAP. I’m beyond disappointed with this repulsive change. I almost destroyed my phone and went out to buy any street android upon discovering this 20 minutes ago. What the heck guys? I can see no legit or logical point to this utter nonsense.

The idea of creating a new playlist to recover the album art quad for

the playlist cover by creating a new one doesn’t work. However when I experimented with trying that I did notice that for a very brief instance when I hit done the quad with covers of the 1st 4 albums appeared, then was over ridden by the horrible generic canned ones some idiot at Apple thought were great. Terrible

update.

DOES NOT WORK. Cannot Revery to old album cover arrangements for playlists made. Horrible, nondescript graphics are all you will get no matter how you create your playlist, or edit it, or begin again. BOO

BTW - I created a new playlist last night and the quad of first 4 songs albums covers appeared and were there until I migrated to a different screen and then back. When I came back they were there for an instant and then replaced with the pathetic Apple-supplied cover art. In addition when you look at existing playlists you will seen that the quad of album covers appear as an option in the edit function. This should be easy to fix I’d Apple gave a ****. They sure take our money for Apple Music.

+1.

In addition the iTunes App used to suggest the new playlist name upon using the Cmd+Shift+N and doesn't do it any longer. Before, to create a new playlist it just took the keyboard shortcut and pressing "ok" and you were done - you had a new playlist with the automatically assigned name and the right artwork and now you have to do it all manually (I guess you can download artwork from the net and add it to songs but this would take ages...)

Just took up Itunes Match suscription so I could verbally request my Homepod to play anything from my library. Lo and behold once the uploading to the cloud has completed I find that a crud replacement of the 4-album cover artwork for any playlist has been made - a totally dull generic reddish square with the playlist name on it. Not only that but the playlist titles were altered - I numbered some of mine in the sequence Name01, Name02 etc. and the leading zero has now disappeared. Typical "Apple knows what you should have better than you do" arrogance. Restore the old arrangements ASAP Apple!!!

You're welcome. 🙂

tt2

Has anybody figured this out yet?

This solution »works« – for a second. You'll see the 4 cover for a moment and then they dissapears and get replaced with Apple's new greppy artwork.