Can you change the iTunes selected Artist View art?

When you're choosing an artist in the Artist View tab, iTunes preselected an album cover to display next to that band/artist's name. Is there a way to change this? It seems, in my case anyways, iTunes picked the photo to display based on the alphabetical order of that artist's albums. For example - Under "Aerosmith," the album cover that displays for the band is based on the 1973 "Aerosmith" album art, because it starts with "A." Would like to know if I somehow can change which album shows. I'd rather it list it by year, perhaps. This is how albums are listed once you pick an artist in my list....

Hopefully this makes sense. have included a photo of the part I wish to change however, in case not! Thanks!

Posted on Jan 5, 2013 8:38 AM

19 replies

Jul 22, 2014 4:10 AM in response to Tweakster

useful tip... worked for me. Artwork was a bit messy after returning to 10.7 from 11 (which is pants and a really big step backwards in terms of lost functionality and IMPOSED useless improvements)

thanks again.

Now just have to work out how to manage various IOS devices on different IOS s/w releases from Mac on 10.6.8.

xefned

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8 points

Aug 11, 2014 8:05 AM in response to mariotheplumber

Trep's solution worked for me in iTunes 11 on OSX. After rating my favorite albums 5 stars, I just had to quit iTunes and re-launch iTunes. The artist artwork now matches the quintessential album from each artist.

Dec 27, 2015 7:11 PM in response to xefned

Still the best solution I can find over a year later with V12.3.2 - pretty crap that you can't just select from the albums for that artist.

Unfortunately (and a bit embarrassingly) "The Best Air Guitar Album in the World Ever" was one of the first I uploaded, so this artwork dominates the view for about 30 artists unless I use this fix 😠

Mar 10, 2016 1:50 PM in response to Trephination

I come to tell that Trephinations method works well lol.

All you have to do is go into get info and rate it five stars along with the heart on the desired album you want to be presented.

Or just go through your entire itunes library and rate all of the music based on how much you love it, that should do it too.

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Can you change the iTunes selected Artist View art?