TV Show Art / Thumbnails Missing On IOS 8

If I convert a tv show and tell Smart converter pro 2 that it is a movie instead the art work shows up but the tv show now is the movies section on my iPad and iPhone 6

Just an update to my updates...

Deleting and syncing from iTunes didn't seem to do any good at all. Just ended up spending a lot of time re-downloading the movies with the missing cover art.

I ended up manually deleting all of the movies from my iPad Air (through Storage Manager). They kept showing up from iCloud (still gray boxes) so I disconnected from iCloud and verified that they were all "gone". Then I plugged in to iTunes via USB and synced the movies again from it. I have all of my movie cover art back. Seems like it was some kind of a conflict between iCloud and iTunes, and iCloud didn't have the right/usable cover art.(?) I re-connected to iCloud, and everything still seems to be okay now.

I have a couple of DVD rips I will need to load off of my other computer. They actually did have cover art- my issue was with movies from iTunes.

I have all of my ripped movies in the Home Video section as to not confuse them with my purchased iTunes movies (obviously in the Movies section). Out of curiosity I one of my ripped "home movies" to have the "movie" file type and re-synced it to my phone and now the artwork shows up fine.

I'd try it with my ripped TV shows, but then they'd become separate files as opposed to bundled together correctly if I change the file type.

and 8.1 has not cured it 😟

all the latest iTunes are displaying my chosen artworks fine. Displays fine on Apple TV (home shared)

just iOS devices that seem to be effected

iPhone 5

iOS 8.1

iTunes 12.0.1.26

My art is still missing, mainly on music albums. A real pain!

I can confirm that iTunes for Windows doesn't resolve the problem either.

I have completely reset an iOS device (iPhone 5S) and this problem is still apparent with the TV shows only. I have tried using different sizes and shapes and although I have had no success I don't fancy continuing this when it appears and works fine from m Apple TV using Shared Library. It is clearly a bug.I also use the pictures of the episodes for my kids (they know which Thomas the Tank Engine film they want to watch from the picture).

One thing I have noticed in the Sync process though between iTunes and the iOS devices. When transferring the movies (i know this is not tv shows, but bear with me), once the film was transferred the artwork for the film would then appear. Since iOS 8.0 (and now 8.1) this no longer happens. All the movies are transferred first then an additional step can be seen in the iTunes notification bar across the top saying it is transferring artwork. After this step all the cover art for the movies suddenly appears.

I suspect that while this problem manifests itself on iOS devices i think it is clear it is the Sync process in iTunes that is causing the problem.

Based on what I'm reading iOS 8 has a lot of bugs to work out. I'm guessing they are a bit overwhelmed but I think it will be addressed eventually.

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2014/10/21/ios-8-1-problems/

I tried this and no luck.

What a drag.

(UK)

iPhone 5s and iPad Air1

As Bill Aviles said on September 27, 2014 don’t kill the messenger. I have a relative who works for Apple in Cupertino. He told me that rectangle artwork for TV shows is no longer supported in IOS 8. It needs to be square. I believe it’s got to be 600 x 600. If you have an Apple TV you’ll notice rectangles artwork gets automatically Cropped. In a future update Apple TV will no longer support rectangle artwork for TV shows. You can use rectangle artwork for movies. The screen shot is from my iPad which now has square art work from Ben Dodson website. I’ve had several friends who have had the same issue and have used Ben’s artwork and no longer see the gray box with the TV show name inside. You’ll notice there’s one show “The Millers” that has rectangle artwork. It shows up as the typical gray box everybody seeing. Yes it’s a pain in the *** to replace all that artwork. It sure would be nice if you could go into iTunes and right-click and get artwork. I hope this helps.

http://bendodson.com/code/itunes-artwork-finder/index.html

There are 2 issues with TV artwork on IOS 8 (including 8.1):

1. The artwork on the series - this is sorted if one uses 600 x 600 artwork like that that Ben D links us to (which looks great BTW!);

2. The artwork against each episode - that is NOT sorted with any artwork I can find; in previous IOS releases (i.e. 7 and below), it appears that those images were produced by the IOS (or iTunes?) scanning the first few frames and picking one.

Can anyone anywhere confirm that they can see artwork in IOS 8 against each individual episode?

If there's multiple episodes I cannot see individual artwork. There's still three gray boxes in the case of breaking bad.

Not to shoot the messenger, but carry this spear to you relative;

So, Apple decided to break (no longer support) all of this artwork formatting, that was forgiving and flexible, for years, why?

Same here - artwork against individual episodes is NOT showing. Series artwork is fine for me (even with less than 600x600 resolution), it's the individual episodes that still show a grey box (no artwork or screen grab)