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iTunes 12.2 Music Playlists Artwork?

Is this a new feature in iTunes 12.2? Playlists in iTunes used to have a much smaller banner, but now the banner is huge and allows you to add album art to each playlist. Once art is added, there doesn't seem to be a way to delete the artwork, but you can change it to something else.

My problem is that I do a lot of work in iTunes with playlists and the banner takes up too much space. I can't figure out how to completely remove the album art icon and/or shrink the size of the banner to what it was in iTunes 12.1.

Mac mini (Late 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Jun 30, 2015 5:12 PM

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PenPenKun Author

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Posted on Jun 30, 2015 5:19 PM

I thought maybe it was something I might have enabled while messing around with iTunes, but I just installed 12.2 on my Macbook and sure enough that's the new look of Playlists. I hope there's a way to adjust that.

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Jul 15, 2015 9:46 PM in response to ewfweF

Actually the thread is called 'iTunes 12.2 Music Playlists Artwork' which would imply more than just the banner... plus other people have asked non-banner artwork related questions. It's nice to be able to help each other when we can

62bMoose

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Jul 17, 2015 6:34 AM in response to hhgttg27

I've sent negative feedback too.

The picture at the top appears to be automatically created from the first four different album covers in the playlist, and the background appears to be a blurred sample of part of the top left album cover. Can't begin to guess what information this is supposed to convey, unless Apple have identified that there is a significant number of illiterate users who need visual cues to identify their playlists - but they need to be very close to a retina screen to see the tiny album covers, or spot the differences in banner colours (many of mine seem to be largely brown or black).

Besides the waste of space by the banner, the default 'Playlist' view with microscopically small album covers wastes yet more space.

Also: The button with the 'shuffle' icon in the banner causes a jump to a random track, regardless of the settings of the identically-iconned shuffle/repeat option button in the control panel.

JDHutch

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Jul 21, 2015 5:30 PM in response to PenPenKun

I've responded with negative feedback too. I don't know why they do this sort of thing, presumably they feel their consumers are getting progressively less intelligent and would prefer to see pretty pictures and artwork over useful or practical functionality. Why don't they at least give people an option? It's like when they removed the instant 'go to song' button, they keep doing annoying things without any option to keep the old version.

Dec 20, 2016 1:37 PM in response to PenPenKun

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iTunes 12.2 Music Playlists Artwork?