Artist Photos Missing in iTunes 12.5.1

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.

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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.

I'm having the same issue as well.

This just *****. I've spent ages getting my library perfectly tagged with album art and everything, and now it looks like crap with all the ugly microphone icons. What's wrong with displaying the album art there..

Funny how a company with millions of employees and technicians cannot get the most simple things to work. Besides that, it's also very irritating.

Adding to some others in this thread, I´d like to state that this is not correct. I have many, many albums purchased through the AppStore, however most of them do not show any artist picture at all, just the placebo microphone placeholder. Likewise, some of the shown artist images relate to albums I already had and ripped to my library. So it has nothing to do with them being purchased from the AppStore or not methinks.

A shame really, and a huge step back from what it was before this update.

I'm also very disappointed by the new artists view. Those microphone icons are hideous. 😢

On my Itunes 12.5.1.12 all my artist thumbnails are missing, all except for U2! Which happens to be the only artist Apple gave as a free download. All my other music I own on CD and have ripped to itunes. Strangely enough, on my Iphone using the new ios10, about half the artist thumbnails are present. These are not even images of album artwork but of portraits of the artists which I have never downloaded so must have been generated by Itunes. Previously, all the artists showed some sort of image in the thumbnails, I include a screenshot from my iphone and macbook. I'm no OCD perfectionist, however, I does now look scrappy and I don't think much of these latest updates so far.

Completely agree - seeing the same thing myself. I like to have the artwork for all of my albums in iTunes and hence synced to my devices. Removing this functionality is a backward step and is ludicrous - sort it out Apple!

same here, Apple just steadily approach to crossing my line, it's my ******* library..

I have the same problem too. I also noticed that some of the artists without pictures on my computer iTunes, have pictures on the music on my iPhone. It seems there are more artist pictures on my iPhone.