iTunes 12.7.4 Album Artwork Display

My solution was a drastic one. New library was created ( having exported all my playlists and then import after new library created ) and all is well.

All covers are now showing. I lost my song ratings but hey-ho. Other downside is resyncing IOS devices as they are now attached to a new library ( which takes a while if you are downsampling to the IOS device as well as syncing as I am am, trying to squeeze 500GB of music on a 160GB device.

But, everything is now showing consistently.

I just tried creating a new library using a new user. It did not fix the problem. After importing my whole music the same covers were not displayed in album view. Again, fixing to another view and back does fix the problem temporarily.

I've just imported my music 10500 albums again, but this does not help the white cover problem even if you remove the covers and itunes itself has the covers imported there are always a large number of blank cover appear in the library when new startup

Same behavior here, quite annoying. Seems Apple's quality level is decreasing in every new version, no quality control seems to be involve as every new Apple's software version ( from the different OS to the apps ) is full of new bugs and previous one many times are not resolved. May be after 20 years is time to move away to a more serious platform.

It is nothing to do with the latest iTunes app as it happened to me on 12.6.2.

Fixed the issue myself as detailed above. Then upgraded to stop at 12.6.4 and until forced to I`m not moving to 12.7 as I want to manage tones and apps within iTunes.

turingtest2 Thanks. It works and fixes the white covers bug ! The only downside is reverting to an old library. (12.7.3 won't open 12.7.4 library…) I'll probably have to compair with my newest library…

Yes, same here. If you switch to a different view such as track/song list vIew and then back again the missing artwork appears but scroll further down your album view and you will come across some more missing artwork, switch view and back again and the artwork appears!

It's a bug and very annoying, after having been stable for many recent updates. It beggars belief how this passed through BETA testing. Fix it Apple!

Same problem here. It's so disappointing, I love Apple but I got a feeling that software quality is dropping lately. Don't they try the updates before releasing them ?!?!?! As soon as a working version comes out I'll disable automatic updates.

Also for me switching from album display to artist display and back solves the issue.

I have this exact issue as well when I updated iTunes to 12.7.

I thought I was going mad seeing my missing artwork especially after spending a ton of time on getting artwork for each of my albums in the first place, but this thread has toned down my frustration seeing how other people have the same problem.

Unfortunately, it isn't fixed yet but I have faith in Apple.

Pretty sure that this will be fixed when 10.13.5 + corresponding iTunes update goes live. It would be highly appreciated if such bugs would be fixed in a minor update as opposed to waiting 2 months for a new point version of the OS.

Yup! Same here. Just received the 12.7.5.9 update, and sure enough… those missing (blank white) album covers are still missing. Would be nice if Apple could actually FIX some of the bugs we diligently report to them when they roll out a new update. I mean…. it's not as if this problem has not been highlighted for some time, is it? Would have never happened in Steve Jobs day!!

AutoZuLaut wrote:

Pretty sure that this will be fixed when 10.13.5 + corresponding iTunes update goes live.

Haha couldn't have been more wrong. 10.13.5 delayed to unknown reasons (efail?) and iTunes 12.7.5.9 not fixing this issue. I wish Apple would take greater care of such details.

Darn, I also updated iTunes to the latest version (12.7.5.9) hoping that it would fix this minor, easy to fix issue (at least for a company as big as Apple) with the missing artwork but it didn't.

Come on Apple, you shouldn't let these small, minor, but annoying bugs plague your software. You're better than this.

I have just bought a new iMac with OS 12.7.5.9

The white album cover issue drove me mad until I discovered this discussion. I am still mad but at least I am not alone.

I guess apple never reads these discussions or if they do, they don't give a toss about degrading existing programs when they issue "updates". Almost everyone (exceptions being apple people) agrees that an upgrade to anything should result in an increase in performance not a decrease.

Apple should stop referring to upgrades and refer to "altered program behaviour generally resulting in decreases in usability and performance and removal of previously useful features".