I do not want iTunes changing my album artwork. I spend a lot of time getting this right. iTunes 12.01 has started messing with this, substituting new artwork and removing what I put there. How do I stop this happening?
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
Philip,
This feature can be disabled in iTunes' preferences, under the Store tab.
iTunes Help - iTunes Store preferences
https://help.apple.com/itunes/mac/12.1/index.html?localePath=en.lproj#itns34267f 4e
Cheers,
Allen
Philip,
This feature can be disabled in iTunes' preferences, under the Store tab.
iTunes Help - iTunes Store preferences
https://help.apple.com/itunes/mac/12.1/index.html?localePath=en.lproj#itns34267f 4e
Cheers,
Allen
Hi Alan,
I have always kept this option unchecked. I've looked again just now and the option has remained unchecked. For some reason iTunes 'selected' 4 (that I've noticed) out of my 1775 albums and did its automatic update anyway. I guess this is a bug in the latest version, perhaps during the updating process.
I've changed the album art back to what I want and will keep an eye on them. I'll feed back to this thread if iTunes changes the art again.
Thanks for getting back to me,
Phil
Same problem with windows. Automatic download is off and Itunes changes the global album artwork, not the individual songs artwork. Extremely boring. Onec again, Apple says what is good for us, even if we don't want it.
has there ever been a fix for this? this has been happening all the time for me as well, and I also have that box unchecked. Although, I am using windows. But this is quite annoying, considering how much I time I spend managing my library.
I had the same issue going on my iPhone 5 (iOS 9.2.1) was such a pain trying to find solutions to get the right album artwork for the right songs...
But then i found a way in the end to retrieve the correct album artwork for my songs:
1. On your iPhone device:
Setting > General > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage > Music > Edit > Press [ - ] All Songs
2. Then open iTunes on your PC and connect your phone
3. On iTunes:
Press the iPhone icon > Press Music in the Settings section > Untick Sync Music > Then Sync > Tick Sync Music > Sync Again
I retrieved all the correct artwork for my songs by doing the same procedure twice but some of you may have to do it more than twice
Phil: After reading online, the way I overcame this problem is putting my iPod Touch in Airplane Mode before I synch. This prevents the iPod from going to the iTunes Store at all---no communication. Thus, I have only my own artwork available for the iPod. As an added measure, I also temporarily disconnect my iMac from my home Wi-Fi...that makes it certain there is no internet for the iPod to try and get artwork. Has worked for me. After I synch, I can turn Airplane Mode off so I can use the other feature of my iPod---EMail, Facetime, downloading, etc.
Unfortunately this doesn't work for me..
iTunes 12.5.1.21. Automatic artwork updates off.
An album does not have the artwork I want. I change it to my preferred artwork in iTunes. All the tracks update as expected.
Then, a few seconds later, iTunes changes it to what Apple thinks I ought to be using. It does this every time I try to change it back to what *I* want.
Thank you Apple.
How do I stop iTunes changing my album artwork?
