Apple Music no longer shows album artwork on playlists

I couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong and why my album covers were not showing up when I created a new playlist. The “color” design is boring and actually quite ugly but most importantly makes it very difficult to differentiate my playlists!

CHANGE IT BACK TO HOW IT WAS!!

Or at the very least let the USER decide if they want a “color” album or the actual artist’s album cover!! Which by the way the artist puts a lot of time, effort and money into!

Really hope Apple listens to its paying customers and makes the change back to how it was!!!

SUBMITTED!! 👍🏼

”Please bring back album artwork on playlists! This is ridiculous. What a dumb idea to remove it and replace it with, what…? generic designs? 🙄 Stop changing things that don’t need changing. Just because the younger generations don’t care to know what albums are or how important the marriage of album and artwork has ALWAYS been doesn’t mean the rest of the living people on the planet want to get rid of it. And going forward, if you’re going to continue to change things that are significant, AT THE VERY LEAST 🤦🏻‍♂️ make it an “option” to choose or not choose! How are you people the ones allowed to make decisions??”

I have a moderately large library (about 5000-6000 albums, 1.5 TB) and I haven't noticed any significant slowdown recently. Well, that's not completely true. Two things are very slow:

• assigning artwork to an album takes a lot longer in Salmonella than in the previous OS version.
• and of course, changing the current library from one external drive to another keeps getting slower and slower with every Apple Music update (it's a 1h+ affair for me now), but I am sure that this is by design. Even Apple programmers must be aware of the super advanced concept of relative path, and so they choose to remap the location of every single music file in the library every time the external storing the music library is changed.

Tried this on my Mac and iPhone with no success. Not totally convinced that this problem is fixed.

I would think since it’s such a universal issue that the fix would come out with a new iSO Update.

glad that your personal fix works for you and hoping that we all very soon get that same satisfaction of getting our artwork back!

Much appreciate you sharing your experience.

Further evidence of Apple embracing the false assumption that they know what we want better than we do ourselves. I mean, why not? It works for Microsoft.

We don't want this horrifically mundane cover art generated by some artificial stupidity agent, and we definitely don't need Jack Donaghy to take something that's already working and fix it.

I despise not having the artwork in my playlist cover art. These new templates are very bland and dull. When I scroll through, they all look the same and lack the excitement I’d get from seeing the original album artwork in the frame. Please go back to compiling the artwork in the playlist cover.

For a variety of reasons Apple music has inconvenienced me greatly within the past few weeks. I barely wanted to come back. This album cover update is completely absurd. I agree with the original post saying to go to Spotify. Because when I used them, none of the issues I recently experienced EVER happened.

It needs to be fixed. I do not know what foolish developer thought it would be a good idea and the WHO in their right mind thought to agree.

Ironically, on a Mac when you go to Settings > Wallpaper the first tile (the one with the shuffle arrows) for folders with multiple images is… a 4-quadrant image with the first 4 wallpapers! See screenshot. This is perfect, like Music’s playlists used to be. Pls bring it back, Apple...

So sad , I told you guys apple is trash. Its like your parents mediating every step of your life deciding what THEY THINK is best for you. Pay 1000 dollars for a phone and i dont even have the OPTION to do what i want. they do this because you allow them to.

I've been trying to change that boring-***, blank "gradient" thing all day, on and off. And now, I find that's a purposeful change?!

Yuck.

As someone below said, that's a total "step back." It's gross and robotic and so uncreative.

Apple, c'mon. Who on your billion person team, made such a dumb move. Do they have nothing else to do, than take a little ounce of fun away from us.

LAME.

I’ve tried this several times, and it does not work for me. Apple Music selects the first bit of gradient as cover art when I go to save the playlist and that’s that. No opportunity to save it without it.

bob

Apple - have the courage to revert back to album artwork being able to be displayed on Playlists. It was a poor decision, as your primacy of "aesthetics" pales in comparison to your users connection to their favourite artists album artwork. Apple should redeploy the artwork capability in the next release.

Thank you. This is a good workaround!

I still feel like Apple Music is a software that has fallen victim of design. I just updated from iTunes (late bloomer), and i must say that it's alot more difficult to use as many important functions are lacking (like how the search works, making new playlists, and the fields in the playlists).

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.

Its just bratty intrusiveness that apple can't fix what's broken but has time to decorate someone's play list with cheezy taste. They just can't leave stuff alone. Improve an operating system OK, but rearrange all the furniture in the room cuz u r bored??, yes this is the apple idea of improvements. How many community members have to point this out b4 apple puts its head back on its shoulders???