Can you change the iTunes selected Artist View art?

Not absolutely certain, but it seems artist art comes the album (with art) that was added to the library first. Can't find any options for choosing a different image.

tt2

i am having the same problem, iTunes 11 just assume all the Artwork i had selected on the older iTunes 10, but now if you want to change it 😠 it is over 😢

i got even an insolite case, i bought a new version (Japan) of a Diamond Head CD, i deleted the older version in iTunes and ripped the new one to the library. The Artist Artwork was the one from this CD and now i got a BLANK artwork 😟

how i can change it? or define a new one?

i guess that was one more new Apple bug on this re-vamp iTunes

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Close iTunes and reopen. That should sort out the blank artwork issue.

tt2

sorry but not working, that happened already sincd begining of the year. so i just turn off and on many times and doesn´t solve it 😟

You could try refreshing the artwork for all the albums by this artist. Copy the image then paste into the Get Info. box for all tracks, repeat for each album.

Of you could try deleting all the albums by this artist, then reimporting.

The nuclear option when nothing else works is to delete the Album Artwork folder from your iTunes libray folder and rebuild the entire artwork cache by scrolling through your library.

tt2

I would love to get back to what the thread's original question was. I've been trying for about an hour now. Renaming the picture file, changing sort options, and even renaming the album to be first alphabetically. It just wont let me choose what album to be displayed first for the artist. I just want their first album by year to be on top, not by letter.

for what i understood from your post, you need to order your Albuns. on the tap "Sorting" you have alot of sorting options, in my case, what i did was, the field "Sort Album" enter the release date of the record, as ex. Highway To **** from AC/DC was released on 3 August 1979, i enter on the field 19790803, you have to keep the standard format YYYYMMDD so that the 8 digits number are correctly interpretated by itunes.

in this way everytime you select an artist you get al the Albums ordered by release date order 🙂

the release date you can find esaely in wikipedia.

about the original post, it is a messy what Apple did with version 11 regarding the artist cover art, it is not possible to select and the system just mess it up frequently. there is some tricks but they are not always efficient and cost alot of time 😟

yeah i know. just wanted to do the same thing the first guy wanted. but if you can't oh well :/ maybe they'll add it later.

Suggest it to iTunes Feedback.

tt2

You can change the artwork that is used for the artist. iTunes uses the artwork for the album with the highest rating. So, select the album you want to use and click 5 stars in the area under the artwork (or right-click > Rating).

Then quit iTunes and re-open it. The artist artwork should now be the album you selected.

Tried it, still doesn't work. The main artist artwork is still missing even though all the albums released by the same artist have all the proper artwork with them. Any other solutions? Ideas?

Anyone?

I'm curious as to how this Artist Artwork thing works because it's drastically different between iTunes and iOS. On my iPhone, bands like Paramore and All Time Low have artwork that features the band (and is not artwork used by any of their albums) - whereas on the PC it seems to choose a seemingly random piece of album artwork. I would wager that iOS is pulling the Artist Artwork from the store, regardless of whether you purchased the content from iTunes. Why doesn't iTunes behave like that? Or, give us the option?

it is a mess, a BIG MESS from Apple, since iTunes 11 they are obligating us "to consume" to see the **** art work they want and not the one we want.

so in iTunes i have 3 artists messed-up, which has no artwork at all, and to change it IS NOT POSSIBLE 😟

in iOS it even worst, no chance to change anything, and just to give one example, my AC/DC art is a live photo of the band with Brian Johnson singing yes he is the lead vocals since 1980, but i have there only records before 1980 with Bon Scott !!! why i have to see the picture which i dont want ??????????????????

another **** example, i have over 10 records from DIO on it, and suprise suprise the picture show me some stupid guy face with a hat with has nothing to do with my records ?????????????????? see DIO real picture at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dio_discography i can only laugh, but in reality i wanna cry 😕

WORKED FOR ME!

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