Artist Photos Missing in iTunes 12.5.1

I can also confirm that on my iPhone, some of the same artists in my original screenshot do have portraits, but don't in iTunes. So whatever they are doing, it's not working correctly in iTunes.

And in either case, it's inconsistent and broken. For example, on my iPhone why do more obscure artists like Hot Chip or Sigur Ros have portraits, but The Ramones or Red Hot Chilli Peppers do not?

We should be able to either A) Customize the artist portrait, or B) Toggle back to album covers for the artist portraits.

*** Apple? Like seriously, ***? How are you going to destroy the aesthetic of the Music app AND our iTunes library by doing this? It's a complete lack of care to all the music lovers out there, and frankly, with a move like this, makes me want to leave this ecosystem.

It's the principle of the matter.

I agree with Ian. This whole thing looks like a hot mess. First of all, the album cover art on my Mac is now 3 ½" square now. It takes up WAY too much real estate. There needs to be a way to adjust the size of the cover art.

The artist thumbnail problem is another mess. Some artist faces show up on my iPhone but not on my Mac. What up that!?

For several years now, I've wished they would stick the "All Artists" button at the top of the artist list. Would eliminate a lot of scrolling up and down.

Its inconsistent between the iPhone on iOS 10 and the new iTunes.

It just doesn't make any sense.

Could not agree more! Looks and functions horribly, especially when which artist pics are displayed appears to be random, so as I scan down the column there is no logic to which artists have pictures and which have the uber-ugly pink & purple microphone logo. And BTW, 99% of my library was purchased from Apple.

Apple--fix this inconsistent ugliness ASAP, please.

This explains why Artist View is having problems with missing photos. The article isn't current, but the info is still valuable:

http://www.mcelhearn.com/heres-why-apples-ios-music-app-should-not-load-artist-p hotos/

Apple, fix this, please!

Sure? Maybe but it does not explain it really.

I'm inclined to agree that most artist images are useless for the task of visually identifying the artist from the image rather than the text. If the feature is going to be there users ought to get an option to choose the image, or at the very least switch to a representative album cover.

tt2

ITunes looks good until this update. Apple has taken a very bad decisions in relation to the covers and album's backgrounds. Instead of facilitating management my music, they start to make it difficult...

Same issue here, on a Mac running OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan.

Almost every artist photos are missing, except I think the few I bought on the iTune Store.😠

Album illustrations are still there, fortunately.

Hope this will be fixed in the next iTunes release.

This NEEDS to be fixed ASAP!. I just saw my library and I have shocked!!

this is horrible. So ugly, so not useful. What on earth do Apple employees do that they think is remotely a good idea. I wish i hadn't updated. Now I will have the hassle of seeing how to downgrade iTunes.

Downgrade instructions here, but if you've updated any devices to iOS 10 then I wouldn't advise it.

tt2

turingtest2 wrote:

I'm inclined to agree that most artist images are useless for the task of visually identifying the artist from the image rather than the text. If the feature is going to be there users ought to get an option to choose the image, or at the very least switch to a representative album cover.

tt2

This has been a bugbear on iOS for several years for me.

I really dislike obscure promotional photos being used as I often have no idea visually who a group is!