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!
>Still not fixed. Folks should post comments to http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html (use the "Broken feature" option.
I have just did. I hope other will do the same and let Apple know we are very dissatisfied.
Still missing in 12.7.0.166.
I'm looking for another app for music library to move. I think they don't care about this issue.
Zevacu wrote:
Still missing in 12.7.0.166.
But at least the muted grey mic is a lot less glaring on the eye. 😉
tt2
Problem with album covers even with most recent version of iTunes, which will soon not be my music player!
Did not work for me.
The problem has not been fixed yet. I'm annoyed about this.
The problem has not been fixed yet. I'm annoyed about this.
What a shame Apple, it's been what 2 year and issues still here ?. I don't understand.
18 months. but who's counting. 😉
tt2
The most annoying thing is that covers are all right on android 😟
I have the same problem and have found that there are a number of reasons why no artwork is downloaded.
By correcting all of the above, I have got most of my Artist Photos back. However, there remain a few exceptions.
If the Artist Information in the Apple Store has a flash graphic rather than a simple photo. The mic graphic remains.
eg. Lady Gaga, Paul Weller, Robert Plant. etc etc as you say major artists!
Like most people, I fail to see why the Apple Store can't have photos for all Artists - or - Default the graphic to the first Album artwork for that Artist?. Amazon and Spotify don't have any problems in this regard!
Do they even test these things before releasing to the public? It's crazy!! Unfortunately, most mainstream music apps are taking this approach, Google Music and Amazon Music apps have the exact same issue. If this is the approach they are taking there should at least be a setting to ask wether we actually want the artist artwork pulling from there servers/database. Personally, I would rather just have the album artwork as it has been for years. I actually really like the music app, but I won't use it until this gets resolved, which looks unlikely. So, in the meantime I've been using "Cesium Music Player" which doesn't have any ugly microphone images.
Hopefully Apple read these posts and do listen to there customers and get this resolved in future updates.
I don't think any major company would modify the design of an application, just because people don't like the way it looks.
They would only do if their business would drop in sales. Let's say hypothetically Apple had an increase in sales or stay the same. Directors would think, why do we need to change anything if it's ain't broken? We still have the same sales or even more. So what if there is a microphone showing. People still download and buy music.
I think any CEO of a company would not do any modifications unless there is a drop in sales, which I believe in the Apple's case there is none, otherwise, the show of artist's artwork issue would have been resolved a long time ago.
Girshon Rutstein wrote:
I don't think any major company would modify the design of an application, just because people don't like the way it looks.
They would only do if their business would drop in sales. Let's say hypothetically Apple had an increase in sales or stay the same. Directors would think, why do we need to change anything if it's ain't broken? We still have the same sales or even more. So what if there is a microphone showing. People still download and buy music.
I think any CEO of a company would not do any modifications unless there is a drop in sales, which I believe in the Apple's case there is none, otherwise, the show of artist's artwork issue would have been resolved a long time ago.
Well said.
Artist Photos Missing in iTunes 12.5.1
