iTunes 10 won't show some artwork?

It is looking for albums with 5 or more tracks before it displays artwork.

To force the artwork to be visible:
View -> Show All Artwork

I was able to get them all to display by selecting the "always show artwork" menu item under the "view" menu.

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Thanks for the tip! This was not a welcome change so I'm glad there's a way to turn it off.

Very helpful tip, thank you sir. I was just about to create a new thread to ask the same question.

Excellent, I was looking for that option. Now if there was only a way to make the artwork bigger than "large"....

Here's the pattern I've discerned:

When artwork is set to small all albums with at least 3 songs display album art.

When artwork is set to medium/large size all albums with at least 5 tracks should display album art. On my system medium always displays album art that meets the 5 song criteria, however, when set to 'large', some artwork is displayed while others that should do not. Anyone else experiencing this?

The latter issue is obviously solved by 'always display artwork', but still...a bit strange nonetheless.

To be honest I think the way the new iTunes handles artwork now is a pretty big retrograde step, you now can't scale the artwork in the list view plus loads of the cover art is now just not there thanks to this "clever" new system.

Hmm, I really miss these aspects of iTunes! 😟

This other thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2564803&tstart=0 also talks about this issue but thanks for the tips on this thread. Let's hope Apple fixes this ASAP.

Could this 5-track threshold be customized via a terminal command or modifying a resource file? I would love to hide the artwork for all singular songs, but not my 3-4 track EP's.

Or better yet, iTunes should give us the option to (only) not show artwork for "Unknown Album".

This is fine: http://imgur.com/Ov3EM.jpg

This is not: http://imgur.com/qoSgA.jpg

How to you change the artwork size from medium to small, so that it appears for albums of three or more songs? The default seems to be on medium size.

Great !
Thanks for the tip !

Jean.

If you click the album art column header (as if to sort by album art) and then click it again, you will see this menu.

Helpful image below:

http://kttns.org/0nde5

great thanks. it helped make it bigger but not as big as im used to. i dont understand why they would take that function away

Thanks, that solved my problem, but I have to ask...

Why is an "always show artwork" item on the view menu necessary? Is there a complementary "always show text" item I should select to keep random track names from going missing? "Always spin inserted CD"? "Always turn on when power button is pressed"?

Under what circumstances is sometimes not displaying artwork a desirable behavior, and what kind of sadist would make it work this way until a "don't be stupid" toggle is thrown?

Gonna go make sure the "always hold water" setting is selected on all my glassware now...