Artist Photos Missing in iTunes 12.5.1

Look on this. Neither official album of this band does not have this graphics as above!!

so there is not even a way to hide this? I dont buy my music from itunes, therefore I have to see this ugly icon?

The album pictures are missing from the "Artist" view in iTunes.
Apple must like getting bombarded with complaints... do they even test this before releasing???

They were always there before and now it looks stupid with a little microphone in place of the artists album covers..

It is incumbent of this company to respect the dignity of these artists and give them back there well deserved pictures... and fire who ever compiles their software and doesn't have it tested properly...
Hire some musicians as a design aid for your software Apple... you might then actually have a decent looking interface!!!

Worst. Company. Ever.

I'm seriously going to dump all of my Apple Gear (iMac 27" Retina, iPhone 6 Plus, MacBook Pro, Apple Watch) into the Pacific Ocean right now. Anyone want any of it before I dump it all, just email me at tyrol@example.com.

Hi,

Boet, before you do that, consider giving it to us, don't you think it a bit too drastic 😠 ?

One thing I noticed is that people are very proud of there music library and not afraid to voice their opinions..

Hi guys, its not right this. some of my purchased albums have missing artist pictures and also some of my ripped to iTunes music has the photos included... i wonder if the its something that will improve with updates and things... god i hope so. such a shame for us OCD guys who have everything running perfectly in their library.

The new design is HORRIBLE! It's a total backward step from a company that I used to think forward looking.

Why remove the images from the artists? What benefit can that bring?
My job requires me to use iTunes a lot and for speed and neatness and it's more cumbersome having that revolting microphone logo.

It looks so amateurish. Get it fixed!

All of my music is directly purchased from Apple, so I don't think that is the issue. I agree with later post - this looks like a bug. They used to display an album cover if the artist photo was not available.

I would like the option to choose:

- whether I want the artist photo used or the most-recently purchased album cover

- to use the artist photo but if that's not available, use the most recently purchased album cover

I hope they fix this soon!

Agree! Suggest everyone leave Apple 'constructive' feedback (like KristenS) via iTunes menu, just below Preferences). You'll need to include your OSX and iTunes version info in drop down menus (e.g. El Capitan / iTunes 12.5.1.21)

Send feedback through the iTunes feedback form under iTunes/Provide iTunes Feedback. Maybe they will change it back.

I'm going to. However. Apple going back on anything they've changed is always extremely unlikely. Once it's changed, it usually sticks. I don't mind the Artist Photos, I like'd it on iOS 9 where it showed the full band above the artist view on iOS, but it's pointless if it doesn't show the photo on iOS above artist view, and it's even more pointless if it doesn't even grab the photos.

It's not even that hard to do. All they have to do is add a picture of that artist to a folder with the artist id.

Paramore are artist ID 75950796.

All they have to do is make a folder somewhere, and create an artist image with the name 75950796.png

if they're lazy anyway, it's stupid that it doesn't work.

In iTunes Artist View, my page looks kind of like this:

In words, the artwork looks fine - but there may be circular iOS microphone gifs that accompany each artist. As Liatron mentioned, Apple doesn't change things like this too often - especially if it's at the Golden Master stage. Feedback is your best option. http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

I am also very disappointed. Totally ***** what they do with the clientele. If that isn't changing within the nex few weeks i am going to change the player.

what an insolence!!!

no thats in correct, some art shows for artists I've definitely not purchased.. got to be a bug but why would this happen?

Ive not bought any of the ones that show art its ridiculous