Artist Photos Missing in iTunes 12.5.1

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.

I agree with the general consensus here: the size of the album image in Album View seems too large, and the circular "microphone" gif accompanying Album View is not attractive.

The problem is that this version is the "golden master" - the final version before general release. At this stage, Apple is primarily interested in getting rid of bugs or errors. Moreover, Apple seems to like the circular "halo" identifier a lot (i.e., this forum)...

...and to denote musical artists.

I have a feeling it's not going anywhere. It's an integral part of Apple's design aesthetic.

Lame. it might not be so bad if those microphone icons were not the most pusillanimous pastels possible.

It's also inconsistent. Many of my icons for bands I have purchased via iTunes display the generic butt ugly icon. Seriously Apple, I rarely fault your aesthetic choices, but daaaamn that icon *****.

I am disappointed in the latest update (12.5.1) to Itunes. Clearly, I am not the only one. The loss of features in this version is appalling. The "simplified" look and not having colors to go with the albums is minor in comparison to having "artist art" vanish. I'd like to think that it is just lousy beta testing once again... but I think the disrespect for the customer shows through. Interesting that Apple thinks it is appropriate to stick it's hands into my library without a second thought!! Have no lessons been learned from the U2 debacle, the deleted libraries, missing and changed cover art?? These items are MINE and Apple should take care to leave them alone or take a lesson from MICROSOFT (Could it be?) and offer an option before removing things from my library? The sheer arrogance of their decision is clear...all of my artist artwork has been erased from view, with only artists from Itunes retaining any images! If that were not sufficient, Apple has seen fit to also determine what the proper image to put in place!! My choices for organizing MY music library now have to go through Apple, since I am now unfit to make my own choice. Wow! How long before Apple in their infinite wisdom will be at my door to confiscate liners from my CD collection, record sleeves, and cassette inserts and replace them with drawings of their choosing?! Might as well mix up all the CD's and such, I definitely cannot be left with the responsibility of organizing that library either! Apple, how about fixing this "bug" and as a company, take a minute to think about your customers and having some respect for THEIR personal media library before dictating the company's wishes on us!

This is what happens when a company no longer cares what its customers want or think. The word "CHOICE" doesn't exist in their world. It's Apple's way or too bad! It's not your library......it's not your music. Let Apple decide what you should have.

I have over 10,000 songs and only THREE artists are displayed! They are iTunes purchased the rest were CD rips. This is so typical of Apple's closed-ended arrogance. Always insisting they know better than their customer base and tells them what they need instead of providing what they want.

I am waiting to update to iTunes 12.5.1 for Mac. I do NOT have Apple Music. All of my many tracks are mp3 with artwork embedded in the tags, and I keep the library and folder on an external drive. Are people with mp3s with embedded artwork having the images removed in the tags by iTunes? Or just not shown? Is iTunes actually modifying every mp3 file in people's folders?

Thanks

Верните как было! Микрофоны - это плохо, плохо, плохо! 😠

My experience: All my album artwork (12,000+ songs) is still there/embedded. These are still displayed displayed under each artist's albums. No artwork has been lost.

What people are finding (me, too) is that under "Artist View" -- the center column list of artists -- no longer has thumbnail icons. Instead, each artist is represented by a simple (rather ugly) rainbow colored microphone icon. (Looks like it belongs on a Baskin Robbins menu.)

Among my hundreds of artists, ALL BUT ONE has this microphone icon. The only exception is the one time I bought ONE TRACK from an artist on iTunes. Lesson learned.

By the way, the deleted artist pictures WERE NOT, in most cases, the album cover cart I had embedded for that artist. They were just generic artist pics that Apple decided to represent those artists. I hated that almost as much as the rainbow microphones.

Apple Geniuses are awesome, but even they can't fix what the iTunes designers and engineers have mucked up.

Thank you. Good to know. Personally I never use that view in iTunes anyway.