Artist Photos Missing in iTunes 12.5.1

I've never followed any artists in iTunes and I don't subscribe to Apple Music. I have random artist photos showing up in iTunes (both purchased songs and CD rips) but a lot them just have the microphone placeholder. However, on iOS, most of them are there with only a few missing. I think this is a bug.

You CAN downgrade your iTunes on Mac, as long as you are not on Sierra. I downgraded from 12.5.1 to 12.4.3 successfully, thank goodness. There is a link earlier in this thread which explains how to do it.

If only it were that simple.

I have a whole bunch of tracks bought on the iTunes store which don't display their artwork either.

Not good, Apple.

This is one of the most annoying things about iTunes for a long long time 😟

how is downgrade procedure?

me too same issue load of silly useless pictures of purple microphones, If this is intentional then Apple are slowly driving away loyal fans of iTunes who use it in a combination of storing their CD music and purchased. Well done Apple great job...JRiver here I come.

Same here. No consistency between iPhone and Mac. These microphone pictures are just ******** ugly. Would be easy to take one of the Album artwork, crop them and use them for Artists view. APPLE this ***** !

Unfortunately all Artists I used to follow are not granted with the delicacy of a nice photos. Example "Arthur Beatrice" does not have a photo in artist view but the ugly microphone in IOS 10 as well as Itunes 12.5 for Mac.

I have same problem, although I discovered that my album art is only missing on the album I transferred to my iPhone 6, Now I want to transfer songs to my iPhone seven, but the album art is gone.

I did find a solution that at least works for me, but it is a real pain in the a...! in my library I have 35000 songs most bought outside iTunes or ripped from my own Cd's. I found that if I manually go to each album missing art, and then right-click and choose get album art, nothing happens. But if I then close iTunes and the reopen iTunes, the art is there and stays there. Problem now is that I have to do this about a zillion times. Hope this works for others until Apple solves this

While album artwork is still showing in the "Get info" tab it is not showing on the artist view. And this is for stuff that I bought from Apple.

I also think that artist portrait thing is worthless..Get rid of it, Apple, or give us a choice.

This can't be right. I have the artist artwork for bands I've never bought from iTunes, they're complete CD Rips. So that can't be it.

Same.

I have artist photos for artists whom I've never bought from iTunes, so I don't think this is true. Although it seems all the ones I have bought from iTunes do have photos.

I have the same problem too. Artists icons not showing a photo. No way to update it or customise it either. The artist shown below, 'Allusondrugs' was purchased through iTunes so that is definitely NOT the problem. I think it is a bug.

Also here is some general feedback which I hope the designers will find useful. My last comment was deleted for some reason.

The layout shown below looks terrible (it looks like it has been formatted by a beginner Web Designer with no knowledge of CSS). I love the clean look of Apple products, but the fonts used here look heavy and ugly and do not fit with the brand. You would be better off using a lighter font.

Also the huge 3" thumbnails are too big and take up the whole screen. This makes it hard for me to browse through all my awesome music. I have a 1080p display. We don't all have retina displays - why not add a feature to allow the user to resize the thumbnails to suit them?

Also, I can't now DELETE albums from Artist and Albums view – works only in songs view.
Also2, if I click on iPod icon – nothing happens. Erlier I saw iPod preferences.

IS BAD in my opinion...