Apple Music no longer shows album artwork on playlists

Old iTunes permitted my choice for play list artwork. Now, Apple assigns some cheezy artwork and I have to create an alternative. I cannot opt out of any artwork. Guess I'll have to create a blank tile.? Would be polite and adult of Apple to fix what is broken and stay out of the art business since they have their hands full with tech support. The entire micromanagement is intrusive.

I really think that they should add this back. The new covers are just bland. Also this way it is way easier to identify what albums have what music in it. I did figure out a way that you could sort of fix it but it is nothing official. Basically it has to do with screen shots and photo editing. But this is a very long process and takes nearly 15 minutes for just one playlist and is not worth. If they don't make it the primary function they should at least have it as an option.

Yes, it's working fine for me too. I make my playlists in Music on my MacBook Air, it creates playlists using album artwork just as it used to and they stay exactly that way when synced to my iPhone! Just go to the leftmost option but don't add artwork, leave it blank and it'll do it for you.

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The update to macOS 14.2 has now changed the behaviour in the Music app on Mac to be the same as iOS. Or, to put it another way, it's broken on Mac now as well.

Yes, but leaving the previous behaviour to generate playlist artwork from the songs automatically would have been a better option. Even if it wasn’t the default.

Are you running current versions of iOS and macOS? The behaviour has changed in recent versions. Plus, it's only an issue on new playlists. Ones created before the change are fine.

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This is a terrible idea. And that’s why I utilize my Spotify subscription 99% of the time.

The second option on Mac worked for me for the last two weeks. It's not working today. Ah well. Back to creating my own 4 cover grid in OmniGraffle then.

Just now had the same experience… it stopped working on the Mac… frustrating.

The iPhone solution still works for me; I suppose this is because I am still on iOS 16.

This has been patched it no longer works. The 4 tile album format stays for just a few seconds then changes back to a generic cover.

This did not work for me. It still displays generic boring “art”. It works for a second, it displays the album, but then it automatically reverts to the new abstract gradients.

No solution has been found. That doesn’t work.

Well if they want to start doing it this way fine... I guess I'll have to steal images from the internet to get something closer to what I want... great fix, am I right?

I now have to do work to get something that used to just happen. Technology is supposed to make life easier. It is the very small things that can push the consumer to other companies. I hope that I will simply have the option to have my playlists like I used to with the album art automatically added.