Artist Photos Missing in iTunes 12.5.1

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.

I still think this is a bug and has nothing to do with what you bought from Apple. I never once purchased anything from iTunes Music, all ripped from CD. Yet Foo Fighters and MSTRKRFT show the stock Apple image and the remaining are the microphone. When I transfer music to my phone, artists like Nirvana and Queens of the Stone Age appear with the Apple Music stock image. Once again, never bought a thing from them. This is a bug, and I'm just gonna have to wait it out I guess till they figure it out.

Apple - please fix this mess.

Sorry to disappoint you. In my case that's not true. I'm missing cover artwork beside the missing artists pics. And additionally some embedded covers are there but will be shown instantly when playing at least one song of that album.

Does that mean that i have to play now every album of my library?

From a customers perspective: annoying.

Yeah, the artist photos have nothing to do with my iTunes purchases.

The only pattern is that most of them are missing.

I'm getting really REALLY tired of fixing a bunch of meta data every release.

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 wantever reason. I am hoping that most of this will clear up after a few days.

This is my last update until the Sierra comes out and see what it may do. I have iTunes Match and all my artwork disappear at the previous iTunes update. I was told by apple to fix it on one computer and then update my iCloud library from that machine. Then I had to sign out of iTunes Match on ALL the other devices and sign back in. I did all this and all MY album artwork is still there after updating to 12.5.1.21. After 12.5.1.21 most of my artists have images and 90% of my music is from ripped CD's. The ones w/artists does differ by device a little. The iPhone seems to be the best. I wondered where these images were coming from. I have found that if I went to the store, searched the artist and then clicked on the button for "artist info" that in the majority of cases the image that shows there is what I see in my iTunes in the artists view. Also the majority of missing artist images in my iTunes don't have an image in the store. Just for information.