Bill St. Clair

Q: iOS 10 Music App Missing Artist Icons

When sorting my Library by Artists, the iOS 10 Music app is missing an icon for most of my artists, even if all of that artists's albums have cover art. I would much prefer to use the cover art from one of the albums if iTunes can't find an artist image.

 

For the image below, every one of those artists has album cover art for every one of their albums.

 

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iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 10

Posted on Sep 13, 2016 11:58 AM

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  • by Kriselk,Helpful

    Kriselk Kriselk Sep 24, 2016 8:56 AM in response to Bill St. Clair
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    Sep 24, 2016 8:56 AM in response to Bill St. Clair

    This really is so aggravating.  Who wants to open up their prized music collection and see some icon that has nothing to do with anything.  Our artists are in our iTunes because we love them.  Digital music is tough enough to feel close to already, with having no album in our hand, no CD insert to flip through, no lyrics,  no recording information, no going through the "thanks" to see who we want to appreciate.  And now we have to see all our beloved artists looking like they aren't important enough to have a chosen image?  Ugh to the UGH, Apple!

  • by DcaswellK,

    DcaswellK DcaswellK Sep 24, 2016 12:20 PM in response to Bill St. Clair
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    Sep 24, 2016 12:20 PM in response to Bill St. Clair

    Please fix this in an upcoming update. It would be cool if we could pick the icon as well?

  • by brian.s.s,

    brian.s.s brian.s.s Sep 25, 2016 2:51 PM in response to Bill St. Clair
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    Sep 25, 2016 2:51 PM in response to Bill St. Clair

    Same issue.

     

    I love music and meticulously take the time review and correct the info for each album, including the artwork.

     

    I would like to take this issue further and would love to have a feature where we could specify an image for the artist, instead of relying of Apple's image selection.

     

    Basically, I hope Apple fixes your concern, but then also provides an image override feature for each artist where we can control the artist image for our library!

  • by w1432,

    w1432 w1432 Sep 25, 2016 7:00 PM in response to mrtew
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    Sep 25, 2016 7:00 PM in response to mrtew

    Fully agree and the circles for the photos is also so wrong and ugly.  I feel Apple has really lost its way with music and iTunes since Steve Jobs died.  Spotify is 100x better than the crap Apple is producing and the shame of to all is Apple used to be a leader of great music applications.

  • by ygnst1,

    ygnst1 ygnst1 Sep 25, 2016 9:45 PM in response to AtomicVariable
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    Sep 25, 2016 9:45 PM in response to AtomicVariable

    I have the same problem too. Make sure to check on iTunes store the artist name, and write exactly like how it appears on iTunes store. Like Jay-Z, they changed it into JAY Z. I changed that, and the artist icon (jay z picture) appear. But still, some of the artist icons are missing.

  • by Matthewche88,

    Matthewche88 Matthewche88 Oct 1, 2016 2:14 PM in response to Bill St. Clair
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    Oct 1, 2016 2:14 PM in response to Bill St. Clair

    What the **** are they doing? Upgrading and making an inferior, less user friendly interface. Sad and annoying. No, it really is just LAME.

  • by nwebb58,

    nwebb58 nwebb58 Oct 3, 2016 7:23 AM in response to Matthewche88
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    Oct 3, 2016 7:23 AM in response to Matthewche88

    I'm have the same problem.  However, when I drag the song to my music, the wrong artist and album cover appears.  This is very aggravating.  I lost all my music when I updated to IOS 10 even though I backed up my phone.  Now I can't add my music with the correct artist and album cover. 

  • by rodrigoseahawks ,

    rodrigoseahawks rodrigoseahawks Oct 5, 2016 6:47 PM in response to Bill St. Clair
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    Oct 5, 2016 6:47 PM in response to Bill St. Clair

    Really disappointing, too many artists without icon  

  • by Matahan,

    Matahan Matahan Oct 8, 2016 2:22 AM in response to Bill St. Clair
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    Oct 8, 2016 2:22 AM in response to Bill St. Clair

    It is more than annoying that i could describe. We would be able to choose the artist's images as we like.

  • by Dre_76,

    Dre_76 Dre_76 Oct 13, 2016 3:46 PM in response to Bill St. Clair
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    Oct 13, 2016 3:46 PM in response to Bill St. Clair

    i downloaded IOS 10 a week after it's release and noticed the same thing.. i was ****** off after all that work getting artwork... i went back to IOS 9.3.5 the same day! i won't upgrade to IOS 10 unless this is fixed... i am happy with IOS 9.3.5. Apple needs to fix this issue....makes no **** sense!

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