Artist Photos Missing in iTunes 12.5.1

I have many musicians and bands in iTunes that match exactly the spelling Apple uses and still there are no images.

iTunes and Apple only care about $$$. The user experience with iTunes is poor. iTunes is one of the few apps that doesn't allow screen rotation, for example. A very basic API for iOS that Apple can't seem to implement on its own platform.

The display of lyrics, even if you add them yourself, is pathetic. Duplicate entries for albums and artists, music purchased with a past email (registered with the same account) that no longer play, the inability to purchase foreign music.....it's pathetic. Apple has done a very poor job, except for the part where they make revenue.

That's not at all true. I have some artist's images displaying and I've never purchased their music through iTunes. I imported all the CDs I had of their's and their image shows up regardless. I'm not sure what Apple is doing here, but it's completely inconsistent and lacks any UX aesthetic.

Can't get worse than this...

Still not fixed. Folks should post comments to http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html (use the "Broken feature" option.

This issue has gone on long enough. What is going on at Apple?

I suggest everyone send Apple feedback about this issue at https://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

Good idea thepixelated i have just put in a request via

https://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

Please could all users do the same !!!

I also noticed this. They used to show a grid of album art, now they are rainbow microphones except for one.

Why that one has a photo is a mystery to me. See attached.

After some digging around, I found out that the artist photo only shows up if you've purchased an album from that artist from the Apple Music store.

So in order for our library to not look like garbage, the music needs to come from Apple. A real shame.

I'm also missing a lot of my album covers.

Hi, Can you point out where this info comes from? I don't think it's correct. I have had these artist thumbnails on iOS for quite a while. On iOS almost all of my artists have this thumbnail from uploaded songs as well. I don't see how it would be any different on MacOS. I think maybe it's just a bug.

That's what i'm thinking 😠

I'm seeing this in 12.5.1.21 on windows 8.1 as well for what it's worth.

As Ian noted, it seems like only artists that I've bought a track or album from have artwork displayed.

I rarely use that view, but I'm seeing the same, artist images for store purchased artists only, or so it would seem.

tt2

Same here. I wish they would just go back to the most recent album cover art for the Artist picture. That was great, then they started using promotional photos, which really made it difficult to browse quickly.