Music app - album artwork replaced by image of artist

Music App.....How to stop /prevent the image /photo of the artist being uploaded and presented in the artist view?
BTB: What a disaster the s/w 7.0 Music App is from the old App on my s/w 5.0 version!!!

thetidytiger wrote:
1) I don't want the generic image of the artist - How to get rid of it?
You can't. You can offer Apple feedback here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/
thetidytiger wrote:
2) Where does it get the generic image of the artist from? Where's this stored on the computer the ipad is being sync'd to?
Likely from GraceNotes of similar online resource. It is likely not stored in iTunes on the computer at all.
thetidytiger wrote:
...I wouldn't recognize one Hip Hop Rap artist from another, nor do I have any interest in their photo. I recognise my music by sight of album covers not headshots. When I had a collection of vinyl and CD's, I didn't go sticking photos on the album covers, it was enough to have a little label with their name on it.
And if you are viewing an album, unless the image is not available, you get an album cover. If you are viewing in artist view, then you are not looking at an album. Why would it present an album cover?

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My problem isn't critical, but it is really annoying. My third generation iPad is showing incorrect album counts for artists under artist view in the Apple music app.
For example, I have just one Coldplay album (Viva La Vida) uploaded to my iPad, but the music app reads the following under the album/artwork in artist view: "10 songs, 15 albums".
I have turned the iPad on and off. I have done a hard reset (by holding home and power button down until iPad shuts off and then tirns on again). I have restored the iPad from a back up through iTunes. I have restored it to factory settings through iTunes and set it up as a new iPad. I have erased the iPad using the iPad "settings/general/reset/erase all contents and settings" option. I have synced the iPad with iTunes and utilized the music tab to replace the music on the iPad. I have uploaded the albums through the iTunes store. I have synced them from my computer.
NONE of these options have worked. They all result in incorrect album counts.
This seems to be a problem which surfaced after I upgraded to iOS6, but I am not sure if that is what caused the issue.
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This is some sort of issue with iOS6. There are several threads (and theories) as to why this is happening. But the bottom line is, Apple needs to correct the problem.
One person indicated that the actual number of albums (by a particular artist) in his iTunes Library was the number of albums indicated on the iPad, regardless of the number of albums he chose to sync. In other words, if I have 10 albums by artist "ABC" in my iTunes Library, but chose to sync only 5 of them, the iPad would still indicate 10 albums by "ABC" (because it's looking to the iTunes Library for the album count instead of the number of actual albums that were synched to the iPad). While that theory makes sense, I found it to be somewhat untrue, at least in my case.
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