Album art missing under artists tab on iPad 2 running iOS 5

I have the same problem on my iPad 1 - Just finished the upgrade and now have no album art at all.

I don't use iTunes to manage my library, I use MediaMonkey so syncing from iTunes won't help.

Same problem ipad1. Checked itunes even deleted again and transfered again to ipad but still it seems to choose which artwork it wants to display.

Yup, driving me mad! I use my Ipad2 for professional DJing but simply cant any more. It took me three days to re-organise all my music and albums and get all the artwork in. I made the MASSIVE mistake of clicking 'sync over wifi' in itunes and now half the album art is missing again. Every time I re-sync, different artwork appears and different artwork vanishes????

I have now wiped all my music and am re-syncing yet again to see if it works.

Does anyone from Apple exist and can explain what the heck is going on here as IOS 5 has rendered my device almost unusable for its main purpose. I have to say, I have gone from selling Ipads at all my gigs to telling everyone who comes up to have a look not to bother any more - its probably caused several hundreds of laughs already, not the kind of advert Apple wants I'm guessing????

I think I figured it out: Connect your ipad/iphone to your iTunes PC/MAC. In iTunes, click on the iPad/iPhone. On the "Summary" tab for your device (in iTunes), select "Sync with this iPad/iPhone over Wi-Fi". On your iPad/iphone go to "Settings", then "General". Toward the bottom you'll see "iTunes Wi-Fi Sync". Select it. Select the "Sync Now" option. It's the only option. iTunes should start syncing the missing album covers.

I'm doing this as I'm writing this. Good luck!

I've been bumming on this little glitch since the update, as well. Like khayamanzi, I'm a bit of an OCD-DJ, and I like having my visual references for set-builing. I don't think ahramfromatlanta's solution, though, has anything to do with this, specifically, but the comment did prompt me to look under "Settings." Here's what I'm figuring out. Go to "Settings," then "Music." There's a switch that lets you turn on or off "Group By Album Artist." If you turn this off, then open up your "Music" app, you'll find that "Various Artists" albums, for instance, will show every artist individually. When I did this switch, all my thumbnails reappeared, too. If I go back to grouping by "album artist," though, the missing thumbs are missing again. So I still haven't quite figured this out, but I feel like I've got a good lead on where the glitch is originating.

Well, not sure if it helps but I discovered that if you play the albums through the music app, (as opposed to my 3rd party DJ app) on all the songs except the first track, the original album art does actually show up both as a small thumbnail in the player controls and full screen when you tap it. It appears that the album art is missing on only the first track. I'm guessing that the album art cover is linked to that first track and without it being present on the first track, it can't find any artwork to show in the collection. Here's the funny bit though - it IS certainly there in iTunes so for some reason simply doesn't copy across or show when on the iPad? It doesn't matter what I do, (delete all album art and add it again, add a different album art cover....etc) it still doesn't want to show up on the iPad......

Eh, still not working right. It seems with every sync, I lose another bit of thumb art on one artist, and gain it back on another. Not sure what's up here, but seems to be in the way the "Music" app is reading meta-tags.

I have now tried all methods, resync after re sync. But still no good. Does anyone from apple actually read these posts? And we cannot be the only ones aflicted with this issue. As mentioned by another poster i find some albums actually with one track with artwork but the majority have none.

I now also find i cannot sync with my machine as i now have insufficient disk space?

How do you calculate what size space you need for a backup? I have 12g left on my drive that i use for itunes and their is no way i am renting icloud space as i can buy a digger drive for less.

FWIW, someone kind of worked out what is going on here in another thread. Sorry, I can't find the link.

But basically, if you go into the setting for the music app on your iPad, and turn off "Group By Album Artist", all the cover art displays correctly.

At a guess, any artist grouping which contains an album including multiple artists will cause the album art to go missing.

I'd posted that possible solution earlier, but it's not a reliable fix. I still have some missing when I do that, plus having loads of "Various Artists" albums, I don't like having to see duplicate album thumbnails for every single artist on a compilation.

Nor is this even a reliable problem, as some albums with multiple artists show up just fine, while other albums with only single artists are missing their thumbnails.

Could this have to do with a function that allows you to group albums by whether they're part of a compilation or not?

Hi,

I have an iPad 1 just updated same issue!

Try going to Music in iPad settings and switch off "group by Album/artist"

All my album cover are back!

Hope this helps

I have also found that when you turn off "Group By Album Artist" in the Settings app under music, it fixes this issue. However, I notice that now, my album artwork shows up as "Other", and I have nearly 2GB of that, when before iOS 5, I only had about 50MB. Does anyone else have this too?

I ended up removing all the affected albums and resyncing my iPad. Press an album cover for about a second, then tap the X at the top left corner. When you sync the iPad again the covers should come over.

tt2

I did a combo of a few things...but first...my iPad2 was fine with my macbook...i just got a new iMac which i use exclusively. The artwork wasn't syncing. When I uncheck "sync music" it removes everything on a sync, then I recheck it, and all the artwork appears. Problem is, when I add a new song and sync, the artwork disappears again. I just tried unchecking a few, syncing, then rechecking them, and syncing and it seems to work. We'll see what happens if I add more music. Interesting thing is, all the songs are from iTunes..one would think they would all come over and sync properly.

Doesnt Apple read these pages and at least come forward and tell everyone that they are aware there is a problem and maybe tell us that there will soon be a futher update to rectify it!!!!!!

My loss of album art gets worse each time I back up and/or add more songs

As has been said by others its annoying , frustrating, looks horrid and rather is sad as it certainly worked fine prior to the latest sofwear release

I for one will consider not downloading an update in future until I have had others try and test it