Artist icons not showing

Bummer. But thanks for your reply.

I would really appreciate it if Apple would be more forthcoming with how they match album art and artist pictures. And would give some guidance about how to maximize the chances that matching album art and artist pictures are found.

I fully agree with you. "Apple works in mysterious ways." Overly secretive, leaving one at the mercy of guessing.

I see. That would explain why many artist pictures are missing.

It would be nice if Apple would allow users again to set artist pictures.

Do you know if the Music app overwrites custom album art

if Automatic update artwork is enabled?

I have a follow-up question. Maybe you can help.

I turned "Automatically update artwork" back on in the Music app preferences.

Then I monitored changes to the artist's pictures in the sidebar in artist view.

In particular, I monitored whether an artist's picture would be added to the artist "Westernhagen".

Previously I had "Westernhagen" in my library listed as "Marius Müller Westernhagen".

Then I noticed that the name listed in the iTunes library is "Westernhagen".

So, my hypothesis then was that an artist's picture was not added because the artist's name did not match.

I then adjusted the name in my library and watched whether an artist's picture would be added during the

next album art check during the Music app startup.

An artist's picture was not added to my library despite an artist's picture being prominently shown in the iTunes library

and I am having several matched Westernhagen albums in my library including the first one listed also being matched.

Question: Why does iTunes not recognize "Westernhagen" in my library? Why is the artist's picture not added to my library even though obviously the artist provided a picture to be shared?

I assume that the picture shown at the top of the Westernhagen site in the iTunes library is the artist's picture to be shared. See the screenshot below.

Thanks for the suggestion and the link. I sent a feedback.

I sent the following text:

I have albums of several hundred artists in the Music app. Only about half of the artists have an artists image despite "Automatically update artwork" in the preferences being checkmarked. And despite having only matched albums for many artists without artists image.

I made sure that the artists names in my library are as they appear in iTunes. In addition, I checked whether iTunes seems to have an artist image of many artists in my library. In many cases, it is obvious that iTunes has an artists image. Still, the Music app does not import the artists image.

It is a mystery to me what guides the import of artists images. And what may lead to the failure of the import of such image.

Making user-based assignment of artists images possible will solve the issue.

I think the best solution would be if Apple would make it possible that users can manually add an artists image.

And that manually added artists images will not be overwritten by the Automated album art procedure.

I see. That is good news. Thanks for the info.