Apple Music no longer shows album artwork on playlists

I don’t ever write reviews but this is something I strongly agree with. Bring the artwork back.

Yep. It’s a disaster how these baby undergraduates, who have never used classic itunes, ruin what used to be the best music player.

Every iteration of Apple Music on Mac has got worse. It is shocking and this current version is the worst by far.

i have 2 Mac Minis and I wish I’d left one just as a media server instead of updating it to this Android wanna be

The new Cooke Music on Mac is absolutely atrocious! I import an album and want to create a playlist of it. I used to do this and it would add the album artwork to each track and the playlist. No more! what a retrospective idea. It won't even allow me to add album artwork not matter what Apple instructions I follow. Apple are getting worse with lots of, supposed, updates. Very disappointing

I have a temporary workaround that does the job for me on mac OS (I haven't tried on iOS because I never create playlists that way).

If you still have an old playlist that displays the artwork mosaic, then that playlist somehow still has the ability to update the artwork mosaic. So...

Create a duplicate of the playlist, empty it, and move to this playlist whatever music you want. The playlist will update the artwark mosaic based on the new music's artwork.

looks really bad, I’m going back to Spotify

I clickedthe link on one of these posts for feedback here and filed my complaint. Please do the same. The squeaky wheel gets the oil.

I’m using the artwork from Apple Music. I screenshot 4 covers in the Mac version of Apple Music, put them in. 2x2 grid in OmniGraffle, then export as PNG before adding to the playlist. I use the Press Shift-Command 5 keyboard shortcut on Mac to get a capture box that I set to just be the size of the artwork on screen. If you do Get Info on a track in the playlist you can choose a tab with the artwork, and use the chevon’s to go to the next track. Tacking screenshots as you go. See this Apple page for how to use screenshot in various ways Take screenshots or screen recordings on Mac – Apple Support (UK)

For what it's worth - I sent the following product feedback:

Please bring back album artwork on playlists! This is a step back - the previous version which took a sampling of albums from the playlist, was much more usable, because if the title didn't indicate what kind of music was in the playlist, the art would. Now the art is generic, and provides no value. It feels that often the changes you make aren't validated by people who actually use the product.

All the artwork on my playlists and tracks show artwork that looks like a snowstorm. I spent hours loading my artwork on my playlists and now it’s all gone. This just blows!!! Bring back the old way, as this IS NOT aestheticly pleasing.

I couldn't agree with you more regarding displaying album cover artwork on playlists. This is a ridiculous idea. I would prefer to see album artwork than Apples non-creative "aesthetic and pleasing" solution.

The colors and fonts used are so pedestrian and boring. Wow. As someone who works as a creative, it's astonishing that Apple, who I've always held in high esteem regarding design, would perpetuate such a truly uninteresting solution.

I'm seriously invested in iTunes and it's extremely disappointing.

Also, their decision to keep that displayed closed, and not give an option to display artwork, is a huge slap in the face to loyal users of Apple Music/iTunes.

Hal

Yes, I think this is a very important point. Apple employees don't spend their time reading through the forum posts but they do get to see the Product Feedback from users. There's no guarantee that anything will change but at least we're then making our opinions heard in the right place and obviously, the more people who do complain and politely explain why they are unhappy, the more likely they are to take notice.

To narrow it down here's the link to where you can leave feedback on the Music app.

Apple Music Feedback Link

I could not hate this downgraded “feature” more than I do. It screams, “we don’t want to pay for something, so this was our garbage solution to keep money in Apple’s pocket.”

this is a very bad idea, Apple.

I feel exactly the same way about this, it’s very frustrating. I’ve submitted feedback about this to Apple and have included a link to this forum; you’d like to think that they then can’t possibly fail to acknowledge this forum when a customer clearly points it out!

…well, unless the Apple Music team exercise ignorance in dealing with feedback!