Artist Photos Missing in iTunes 12.5.1

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.

The artist pictures are actually missing from Apple Music (streaming service) as well. Strangely enough, ALL artist pictures appear in CarPlay using the same phone with missing artist images?

This is a terrible, terrible problem. Also, in windows, there a serious problem of scaling DPI, when the EXPLORE and FOR YOU tab appears awfully big, fuzzy and blur....

Please, apple (in lowercase..), fix it.

I'm finding that even if I've purchased music from the iTunes store, the artist thumbnail doesn't show up.

I even thought maybe I would've needed to purchase all of an artist's music in my library from iTunes, but that's not the case, either.

If they don't fix it, hopefully they'll let us just switch the microphone thumbnail off.

The contempt Apple has for their users is unbelievable.

Same problem here... Does not seem to have anything to do with purchase on iTUNES for me as the few artists faces showing up are there "somehow". Also, If I go to the few artist ArtWork that is showing (instead of the annoying mic) it is actually not in the Art Work window (the one in the Add Artwork).

Rather have iTUNES to work than having "pixel dust" available when you text... A little pathetic. Hope they fix it soon.

Same here, hours upon hours of downloading album art to make sure it was fluent with no gaps. And then iTunes updates and removes all of this. Awful, upsetting, aggravating. All of the above. **** you, Apple Music. **** you and your stock images.

Well, I have out of 1000 perfectly organized artists I have only 2 artist photo of music I didn't get from Apple Music Store, and for the music I did get from Apple Music Store I don't have artist photo, it seems like a bug.