Artist Artwork is missing in iTunes 12.5

Hey everyone,


First off I am running iTunes 12.5.1 and iOS 10.0.1 on my Macbook Air and iPhone SE respectively.


In previous versions of both iTunes and iOS, iTunes has automatically added Artist artwork to my music collection. No, not Album artwork. Artist artwork.


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Above you can see the artist Passenger has a blank artwork, whereas Pete Murray has the artist artwork


Both artists have all of their albums with the correct names and correct artwork, but the only difference between the two is that i have purchased one of Pete Murray's albums. So why has Passenger's disappeared? How can I add it again?


Thank you for all your help,

Grant

MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), null

Posted on Sep 13, 2016 5:19 PM

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Oct 31, 2016 10:49 PM in response to mikefromnewberg

There is definitely an improvement after last update, at least half of the artists do have an artwork in the library now compared to 5 prior. At first nothing changed after update but after i cleared iTunes cache & restarted Mac artwork showed up. Oddly enough there is still some artwork still missing with MacOS while iOS do show artist artwork, like Marc Anthony. However I did check iTunes store for artists artwork and lots don't have any.


Would be nice to have an option to enable or disable artist artwork to show. Just like Contacts list with alphabet will do. At least it remove that ugly Mic placement.

Nov 1, 2016 6:27 AM in response to serge_pt

I also updated to the latest version, on the assumption that the only way it could be any worse was if every #microphoneofdeath now displayed a photo of Celine Dion.


I would say I now have twice the artist photos I had before.


Many of the photos are too small and/or too generic to identify the artist, but I'm hoping that with daily use I might at least come to identify some of the color schemes.


Having said that, the option to use album covers should never have been removed.

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