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Hello, is anyone else having album artwork display issues under iTunes 12.7.4.76? Under Albums view not all of my album art thumbnails are displaying. I tried deleting the artwork cache but I am still having the same problem. The artwork appears to still be imbedded in the file, but it won't display. It's probably a bug and I have sent a report but I want to see if anyone else is having the same issue?
It will likely be fixed with the next release of iTunes. Or the one after that. You should use Feedback - iTunes - Apple so Apple can get an idea of how many users this issue is affecting. You might also want to go back to iTunes 12.7.3.
Step by step guide to rolling back to iTunes 12.7.3 on a Mac.
Your library should be restored to the exact state it was in when you closed it prior to installing iTunes 12.7.4. You can add the media folder to the library to import any additions since then.
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Reply to Fortang, Nov 1, 2018 11:33 PM:
With Mojave 10.14.1 and iTunes 12.9.0.164 I just checked my library. 3 covers out of 516 were not shown in the overview of all albums although they were stored at the right place. I. e. opening the information dialogue for each album the cover was shown. I activated/selected and copied the cover there, inserted it as the second cover, deleted the first one and now the covers are displayed in all views. Same as with previous iTunes versions.
The interesting point now is whether some covers will disappear again as with previous versions. So we should wait a while before we can confirm the solution. At least iTunes 12.9.0.164 does not repair the covers that are not displayed (although still there within the detailed data).
OK, here we go: the problem is still there. Not even two hours after my latest reply I started iTunes again (Mojave 101.4.1 and iTunes 12.9.0.164) and the very first cover in the overview of albums was not shown. And again the cover was still in the detailed data and could be retrieved via album information. (And it was still displayed on my server which is used by iTunes for storage.)
So the solution is not there yet!
macOS 10.13.6, iTunes 12.8.0.150: persisting
macOS 10.14.1, iTunes 12.9.0.164: solved
This is only my experience. Using an old mac here which I cannot update to 10.14 I would kindly ask Apple, to backport the fix to iTunes on macOS 10.13 as 12.9 will not run on macOS 10.13.
Some of the fixes described by others in this thread work some of the time. I suspect that sometimes it simply takes the album art function a little time to process all the images. When that happens, scrolling down and then back up again or toggling back and forth between the Artists display and the Albums display might prompt reloading of the cover art images. But...sometimes I find a more radical (and time-consuming) approach offers a more permanent fix. You've got to make iTunes physically move your song files. To do this, I select an entire album with missing cover art, Get Info, then change the artist name or the album name (either one will work), save it by clicking Okay, and then I change it back again. For some reason, this seems to work pretty well—and it's actually solved other problems for me on iTunes in the past.
Apple released iTunes 12.8.1 for macOS 10.13.6 on 2018-12-05 (iFun Link de) but pulled the update soon after. They then decided to not release that update for macOS 10.13 so it seems Apple users on pre 10.14 OS are stuck with this bug, which is a real shame. Is it that hard, to backport this fix?
I solved by simply adding a space in filed Artist and Album Artist and then removing it. This procedure will refresh your metadata and the Artist badge will be correctly downloaded from Apple repository.
Merry Christmas!
Thanks for the response. Here's a screenshot of my Albums/Grid View:
will this bug ever be resolved in iTunes?
find the differences the album bug is still there apple programmers do something about this
report the bug to apple !
Remind Apple about it at Feedback - iTunes - Apple. Or start replacing your white art with square images. 😕
tt2
Not yet showing for me on macOS 10.13.6. Is there a download link? https://www.https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/macos offers iTunes 12.8. Downloaded and installed, but it's 12.8.0.150.
Same problem. The artwork appears sometimes when I open "information" and close it.
what can we do to get the illustrations visible again
This also happened to me this morning but I'm on 12.6.2 so it isn't version specific
iTunes 12.7.4 Album Artwork Display
