ITunes Genre art cannot be chosen like before 11

I prefer to browse music by genre, but iTunes no longer lets me choose the genre art. It used to be great, now it is broken! Help!

JohnnieB wrote:
iTunes was last updated on the 11th September 2014 to version 11.4
The AppStore is telling me that there are no further updates available.
OSX 10.9.5
This doesn't make sense ...
The current iTunes is version 12.0.1. It runs on OS X 10.7.5 or later. I'm not sure what's going on ... maybe you have a system disk with very little space. Maybe you have another computer in the mix running a later iTunes.
Try downloading a current version of iTunes from:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download

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ITunes Genre art cannot be chosen like before 11

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