I've found that it generally looks okay, but the choices made by iTunes probably won't suit everyone. Other times, the iTunes choice can have poor contrast for small type and cry out to be turned off, especially in bright sunlight-as in this example on my iPhone.Īgain, unfortunately, this feature cannot be managed, so far as I know, on a per playlist or album basis.
Go to File > Library > Get Album Artwork. If you fine some missing album artwork in your iTunes, first you should allow iTunes itself to find it. Right-click (command-click on the Mac) on a track (or tracks) and select Get Info. If you do not wish to add album art using the drag-and-drop method, you may do the following to add album art from a pop-up file browser window. Retrieve missing album artwork though iTunes. Simply drag the image from your web browser into the iTunes Album Art area. Get missing iTunes album artwork automatically, using third-party software. This color generally carries over to synced playlists on an iOS device, but may be altered, I discovered, based on color choices in Settings. Manually search and add missing album covers in iTunes. Sometimes it can look really nice, like my iPhone's playlist for walking, shown below on iTunes 12 on a Mac. Unfortunately, iTunes gets to choose, it seems, the background color based on some key color of the item's art. The setting to be used is iTunes 12 > Preferences > General. Within the dialog window on your screen, look for a box titled Multiple Item Information.' If you only selected one song, you should click on the tab labeled 'Artwork' instead.
On the right is the Artwork tab of that window. Right click on any song title (or selection of songs) and select Get Info from the drop down menu that appears. Unfortunately, the color chosen isn't up to you. On the left is the window that shows a summary and the main tags of your files. To play an album in Apple Music, hover over the album artwork to display a big blue.
(For some anyway.) iTunes 12 allows you to turn on a colored background for open albums, movies and playlists. 260 2 Read Me First Welcome to Take Control of iTunes 12: The FAQ. There's nothing more boring than black text on a white background when listening to music. Follow these steps to hide album covers from List view in iTunes: Any of the techniques we just explained to show the album artwork column can be used to hide.