Album Art Flipping

While streaming songs from my iMac to my new AppleTV, the album art and time bar keep flipping.  Since I don't have a plasma TV, and I am not worried about burn-in, can this flipping be turned off?

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No, that feature cannot be turned off on the Apple TV.

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    use the search discussions box. there are loads of threads on this. you definitely aren't alone
    the only real solution i've seen is to re-sync the problem tracks, i've probably missed some though, so it's worth looking around.

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    SOLUTION:  After 48 hours, 100% of the artwork is now appearing.   If it's in iTunes, it's on the iPhone. 
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    In iTunes, if album art is not showing in the Grid view, buy you know you have album art associated with it, select Get Info on any of the tracks. Magically, the album art appears in Grid view.  Repeat for all albums with missing art.
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    Yep, The blurry coverflow happens to me ONLY if I haul * across the albums then it catches up to me in about 2 seconds.....
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    clever point...
    jere7my wrote:
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    Beavis2084

  • Two questions - album art and shuffling

    Ok...I have two questions, but didn't really want to make two posts...
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    1) Have you checked that the album art is actually on each file? Right-click on the song and select, "Get Info" and then the "Illustration" tab. Now, press the "Next" button and make sure that all the songs that you think have got the album artwork actually have them.
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    Although this discussion is a bit old I think it's still worth answering it as google points to this page.
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    I recently upgraded my laptop to iTunes to 7.0 and everything is fine except that when using the "coverflow" to go through my library, every piece of album art (and the generic music note for when there is no artwork) has a very thin diagonal line through it. It also occurs when I'm looking through movies on the iTunes store. I downloaded it on my desktop and did not have this problem. Is there a way to fix? I tried to re-install the update, but it didn't fix the problem. Thanks.

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    clever point...
    jere7my wrote:
    some album covers just aren't exactly square, particularly if the CDs are sold in cardboard flip-cases.
    I deal with artwork in a more hap-hazzard way, but most of the time, i get SQUARE results...
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