Album art - increase size on display?

I've just started using the Nano and I've been enjoying it tremendousl. One of the huge benefits of this device over my old players is the ability to display album art. However, the size is really small. I understand that it will be small when it is displaying song information alongside of it. But when you scroll to where it only displays the album art, it doesn't cover the entire screen, the way a photo is displayed. Is there a way to increase the size of the album art so that it does show across the entire screen?

Not sure if I have the same problem or not. My album art work shows up fine on the i-pod and in the small "now playing" window on the lower left of my pc but the main view window shows that "Itunes is unabke to browse album covers on this computer". I was always able to view this for as long as I have had the i-pod in the past before but now cant. On my PC (I tunes)the "Cover flow view" is selected and no matter what preference is selected the same message comes up and can not see album art work anymore on main window above song list.

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from PIL import ImageTk, Image
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Mods:
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