I've noticed a few artist photos are missing since upgrading to 12.5.1. Any ideas on how to fix or refresh? They are mainstream artists, nothing obscure.
I may have found a possible solution (well it worked for some of my missing artist photos in iTunes). I noticed that some of the artists with missing photos had an extra space after their name in iTunes.
So if you go into iTunes -
go to 'artists' under 'library' on the main page -
right click on an artist with a missing photo -
click 'artist info' -
look in the 'album artist' field -
see if there's an extra space at the end of their name -
if so, remove it and click 'ok'.
This has worked for me for most of the mainstream artists in my library, so has got rid of a fair number of those ugly microphone images.
Another point I've noticed is that changing the artist name slightly can determine whether iTunes will display a photo or not. For example 'The Bee Gees' in my library had a no photo even after removing the space. As this is a very mainstream artist, I thought to change the name album artist name to 'Bee Gees' and it worked bringing up an artist photo.
Good luck!
Same here. No consistency between iPhone and Mac. These microphone pictures are just ******** ugly. Would be easy to take one of the Album artwork, crop them and use them for Artists view. APPLE this ***** !
Unfortunately all Artists I used to follow are not granted with the delicacy of a nice photos. Example "Arthur Beatrice" does not have a photo in artist view but the ugly microphone in IOS 10 as well as Itunes 12.5 for Mac.
I have same problem, although I discovered that my album art is only missing on the album I transferred to my iPhone 6, Now I want to transfer songs to my iPhone seven, but the album art is gone.
I did find a solution that at least works for me, but it is a real pain in the a...! in my library I have 35000 songs most bought outside iTunes or ripped from my own Cd's. I found that if I manually go to each album missing art, and then right-click and choose get album art, nothing happens. But if I then close iTunes and the reopen iTunes, the art is there and stays there. Problem now is that I have to do this about a zillion times. Hope this works for others until Apple solves this
While album artwork is still showing in the "Get info" tab it is not showing on the artist view. And this is for stuff that I bought from Apple.
I also think that artist portrait thing is worthless..Get rid of it, Apple, or give us a choice.
This can't be right. I have the artist artwork for bands I've never bought from iTunes, they're complete CD Rips. So that can't be it.
Same.
I have artist photos for artists whom I've never bought from iTunes, so I don't think this is true. Although it seems all the ones I have bought from iTunes do have photos.
I have the same problem too. Artists icons not showing a photo. No way to update it or customise it either. The artist shown below, 'Allusondrugs' was purchased through iTunes so that is definitely NOT the problem. I think it is a bug.
Also here is some general feedback which I hope the designers will find useful. My last comment was deleted for some reason.
The layout shown below looks terrible (it looks like it has been formatted by a beginner Web Designer with no knowledge of CSS). I love the clean look of Apple products, but the fonts used here look heavy and ugly and do not fit with the brand. You would be better off using a lighter font.
Also the huge 3" thumbnails are too big and take up the whole screen. This makes it hard for me to browse through all my awesome music. I have a 1080p display. We don't all have retina displays - why not add a feature to allow the user to resize the thumbnails to suit them?
Also, I can't now DELETE albums from Artist and Albums view – works only in songs view.
Also2, if I click on iPod icon – nothing happens. Erlier I saw iPod preferences.
IS BAD in my opinion...
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.
Artist Photos Missing in iTunes 12.5.1
