Artist Photos Missing in iTunes 12.5.1

I don't know how much notice Apple take of forums like this but I reckon they do at least take note if you click the provide itunes feedback button.

Absolutely shocking update to iTunes. I like many others have spent many hours carefully tagging and honing my digital collection to appear as I want it to. I loved the way iTunes used to display the artist pics but now I am stuck with the stupid Microphone for nearly all my artists on Macbook, iPhone and iPad. The only things that seem to work correctly are the playlist views so if they can get it right for those then there is absolutely NO excuse for not applying the same logic to the Artists view as well. Come on Apple, you are so much better than this!

Wait till they remove the star rating system. That will be the next devastating omission. How much time did we spend rating all of our songs? It's extremely useful... but judging from iOS 10, it will be soon replaced by a dumbed down Like or Dislike. So mad they removed that from iOS Music app.

I don't mind not having the star rating in mobile, since it's not as easy to see them. But yes, it would be a shame to lose that feature in iTunes.

Exactly the same issue with me - seems to only show iTunes purchased artist thumbnails. I hope that this is just an oversight and not another move by Apple to get users to move over to streaming only...

For me the same thing. iPad same amount as iTunes.

same problem here and really confused to see what Apple did on this new iTunes.

I mean... what's the point? Making us go on another software?

i'll wait a few days and see what happens... i'm not gonna buy online what i have in CD only to get the cover!

duuuuh!

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Bad,bad,bad decision by Apple. Many hours now wasted! If we can't have our Artist images then get rid of the stupid microphone, or, here's an idea, give us a CHOICE. This change, like so many others, is not an improvement. I know they read these comments because they deleted my previous reply re this download. Can't second-guess the "Genius" who gave 12.5.1 the green light! The sad reality is that these decisions/changes are NEVER ABOUT THE MUSIC!!! itunes was fine before this update. It worked fine.....it looked good. In addition to the issue with the Artists' thumbnails, the album images under ARTIST are too big. Looks ridiculous.

The idea of only purchased music from iTunes has pictures from that artist is not true. I have several albums that I've purchased from iTunes (Most of my digital music library comes from CDs that I've been purchasing since 1985 and ripped. Only recently have I started buying music via iTunes.) that have no artist image after upgrading to 12.5.1.

What the he-double hockey sticks, Apple? Please fix or give us control to edit the artists' image. That stupid rainbow microphone icon is UGLY. U-G-L-Y.

Once more Apple succeeds giving me one more reason to HATE iTunes even more by each update. I got to a point I'm already missing WMP! I think it's time to find a media library and player for Mac that worths...

I have the same problem.

I don't believe the music needs to come from apple (buy). Loaded a new artist/song from music CD/DVD without purchase from apple music. On my mac the artist photo was a generic microphone. Sync with my iphone and artist view correctly portrait the artist. I don't subscribe to "for you". I think this is a bug. Apple should fix it.

Hi all,

you may can use this app to help with the covers and even more:

https://www.tune-instructor.de/en/tutorials.html

download it and use TutorialEmbed iTunes Store artwork in ID3-Tag

Hope it does fit what you all looking for.

It worked fine before. This is also a problem on apple music on my phone

thanks turingtest. I have successfully downgraded to 12.4.3. I am still on 10.11. thank goodness for that. No more ugly graphics. Who knows what goes on in Apple's mind, removing features arbitrarily, ones that people had got used to and liked. Change for change's sake, and who cares what the users think.

Sorry while I am missing some artist and am not happy about it, I have a lot of music that I ripped that shows artists. Also, I may be wrong but it appears that over time, more are showing up. It seems to be similar to iTunes match. Populating the artwork is often delayed for wanter reason. I am hoping that most of this will clear up after a few days.