Album art and info in visualizer

Hi
Just wanted to ask if anyone knew of a way to keep the album artwork and information on the screen when you've got the visualizer on in iTunes. I like that it's there at the start of the song but it would be nice to have the option to have it there for the whole song and then change for the next song and stay just wondered if this was possible.
Thanks
Dan

Currently Apple does not offer this option in iTunes. I have hoped for the same thing though. If you want, you can provide iTunes feedback and requests to Apple on the iTunes portion of Apple.com
Hope this helps
-Stephen

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Thank you very much for your respone.
I'm new here and didn't realize that correction would bump this discussion.
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Basically there are two methods
Method 1.
You do it on the phone. Load the album art pictures to the memory card. (Must be JPEG NOT BMP)
Load also the music files.
Open Music application in the phone. Open an album then select Options->Album art then Options-> Add, browse for the picture and select Ok.
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Method 2.
You do it on the PC.
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Message Edited by el_loco on 04-Feb-2008 10:44 PM
640K Should be enough for everybody
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