Album Art Temporarily Disappears in Cover Flow

I noticed today that while rapidly flicking in cover flow the album art would suddenly disappear for large clusters of songs, replaced by the song note. Then, at some point, for reasons I couldn't figure out, the album covers would reappear (hitting home button and going back may have worked). My software is up to date. First time I've ever seen this happen. Anyone else noticed this? I did a quick search and didn't find anything. Thanks for any responses.

I've got about 300 mb left since I updated to 1.3.1 (that update inexplicably seemed to take up a lot more memory than any prior update). I also noticed last night that if I flick it really fast, it will pop back to the home screen. This is one of several instances of instability I have noted since I updated, although generally things have worked well. I'm tempted to go for the 16 gig and just start over with a new phone, particularly since I'm about out of memory.
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Art shows in itunes cover flow & album view but not on ipod

I spent several hours downloading cover art to itunes for albums where the art couldn't be automatically retrieved by itunes. I'd browse through album view, and for every album that had no art, I'd (a) select the album by clicking on the default music-note image and thus activate the drag-and-drop target in the lower left, and (b) drag some art from a website. When I was done with this, all the albums for which I downloaded art would properly show art in the itunes cover flow and in album view mode.
For the iPod (a 160GB Classic), I deselected "display album art on your ipod", hit "apply" to have it delete the art, then reselected and applied again, and itunes went through the process of formating and downloading the art to the ipod.
Now, however, the iPod still only shows the artwork that had been automatically retrieved; all the art I had added manually won't show. Back in itunes, I notice that it looks like my process for downloading the art only resulted in the art being applied to one song per album, as far as I can tell randomly selected. If, in album view, I select each song individually, the art will show in the lower left corner (and in "get info") only for one of the songs; on one album it might be track 1 while on another it might be track 7. However this is enough for itunes to show the art for the whole album, and also to show the art in cover flow.
Is there any automatic way to synchronize the art over a whole album, or at least to get it to download to the ipod so that it shows in cover flow and album view on the device as well as on the computer? I had to download art for about 190 albums; it would be a real drag to have to do that again.

Ok, here is the method I used. Another member gave this to me. It has worked for my iTunes library, and hopefully my ipod on the next sync.
I opened iTunes and Safari, with Safari on Amazon.com (to get the art). I would play any song from an album and command-click the each song in the album. Once each song is highlighted, I hit command-I to change info. I then dragged the art from Safari to the small box on the right of the smaller info change screen. This resulted in every song highlighted displaying the same artwork.
I hope this helps.

Custom Icons Disappear in Cover Flow Above Certain Size

I've been trying to create custom icons for certain folders and I've been having no luck when viewing them in cover flow.
I've downloaded a PNG file, 512x512 pixels. Open it in Preview, copy to the clipboard, do a 'get info' on the folder I wish to change the icon of, click the little icon, hit paste, and it appears correctly in the preview and in the finder Icons view, as well as on my desktop or whatever. However, if I turn on cover flow and drag the size of cover flow to larger than a certain point, the custom image disappears and all I get is a blank spot. It's as if the 256 pixel icon is being created but the 512 pixel image is being left blank.
I do not know if this happened in 10.5.1, as I hadn't tried until after installing the 10.5.2 combo update.
In the following picture, you can see 1: bottom right, a preview of the png file itself as it appears, correctly, in cover flow, 2: top right, the icon working correctly on the desktop and in the get info window, and 3: left: the cover flow view of the computer showing a bit gaping void where the custom icon should reside.
!http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~tomlinso/argh.jpg!
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This does NOT happen if I use an existing, working icon (say, put the Applications folder's icon onto my hard drive.) It seems to be an issue with custom icons only, not just changing the icon for something.

Album Art Mysteriously Disappearing

Once in a while I'll open iTunes or turn on my iPod and find that an album has lost its artwork. I replace the image with no problem, (takes 2 seconds with google images lol), and after that I save the image in an album artwork folder if it isn't already there. It never happens with the same album twice. Is this album art issue due to the fact that I've transferred some songs over from other libraries using a memory stick, and the attached images have some how faded away?

I have a MacBook Pro with OS 10.4.11, and iPod Classic v1.1.1, and I'm having a similar problem:
Any artwork that I retrieved using iTunes' "Get Album Artwork" option DOES NOT show up on my iPod. All the artwork I manually retrieved from Google (copy & pasted) shows fine.
I'm told that copying and pasting artwork embeds the image file right into the mp3 file itself. The artwork that iTunes retrieves is NOT stored in each mp3 file, but rather in its own separate database. Somehow that database doesn't seem to be transferring to the iPod.

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I've been trying to clean up my itunes library and for some of the albums the artwork I've added won't stick. It shows up fine when I'm in the grid view for that album but when I'm on the grid view for all my music it disappears (although it shows up again when I hover over it). Does anyone know why this is and how I can fix it? I've made sure the artwork is definitely on every track of the album and most of my other albums are fine...

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Album Art Randomly Disappearing in I-Tunes

Background: I have an old version of Itunes (6.01.03) and I am running Windows XP. My library consists of songs ripped from CD's, downloaded from artist sites, downloaded from blogs or ripped from stream/converted to MP3.
Problem: The album artwork has been randomly disappearing from my mp'3 for quite a while. It is not limited to one type of file - download ones or ripped ones.
Songs with an id tag of v2.2 seem to be fine. Tags at v2.3 seem to lose the artwork. So I change the album tags from v2.3 to none to v2.2, then add the artwork, the select the convert selection to Mp3 option. The file then reads "encoded with ITunes 6.01.03".
This seems to work for a while. But the id tags eventually switch back to v2.3 and I lose the album artwork again.
I have spent countless hours on updating the album information and artwork only to keep losing it. Any suggestions on what I can do to keep losing the artwork or should I just give up on adding the artwork?

yeah, Apple doesn't post replies here, it is for user-to-user help.
I think the v2.2 tags are your problem, and something else on your PC is changing the tags, not iTunes. iTunes is not that smart....
I suspect Windows Media Player. It is installed on every PC, and the default iptions are to look things up on the internet. It can do this in the background, without you even thinking WMP has launched. Go in and look at your WMP options, set it to not update from the internet.
In my case, I had disappearing artwork with v2.2 tags. Then I would run it through a little program to figure out beats per minutes, and the artowkr was gone - because the tags for v2.2 were wrong.
After I converted everything to v2.3, disappearing artwork stopped.

Icons disappear in Cover Flow when window resized...

I created a custom folder icon for my Pixelmator projects, applied it to the folder, and all looked to be perfect. However, I later discovered that when I resized the Finder window and the icon grows larger in Coverflow, my icon disappears! This seems to be the case for all of the icons I created. Is there something I'm missing? Did I do something wrong with the creation? Or is the template I'm using not working the way it's supposed to? I can post pictures or a screencast of my issue if it'd help...
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2. Exported file as PNG
3. Using IconComposer, dragged in PNG, and exported icns file
4. Using IconDroplet, I created a usable icon
5. Went to "Get Info" on both files and pasted new icon
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Finally! I'm pleased to say that I was informed of a solution today on another forum. I downloaded the program img2icns, and everything looks to be working how I want it to. Hopefully that helps you out, too! I'm marking this one 'solved.'
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Cover Flow Blurred Album Art - Bug?

Cover Flow is losing focus on whatever the displayed album art is after a few seconds of scrolling (image becomes burry). Once this happens it stays that way and affects all album art until Cover Flow is exited. Happens at random, doesn't seem to be caused by any particular piece of album art. Can most often (but not always) be reset by going out of Cover Flow mode either by going to a non-landscape mode or exiting Cover Flow altogether, but it is extremely annoying to be continually dropping in and out of Cover Flow to try to read the album art. It didn't do this when I had only a few album covers, but once I started loading it up with a bunch of stuff I started having problems. Could this be something like a single defective album art image file causing Cover Flow to go wacko, or is it simply a general bug? Any fixes or anyone else having this problem?

Yep, The blurry coverflow happens to me ONLY if I haul * across the albums then it catches up to me in about 2 seconds.....
I guess this time is needed to render the artwork?
I have never had to exit for it to work properly. I also noticed something like this happening when flipping quickly through pictures.

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I feel like a chode posting on Apple forum...PC's suck, but I'm too stubborn to change over. Anyway, I did a clean install on Windows XP w/ service pack 2 and also re-installed itunes 7. The album artwork is displayed in the lower left corner and also works in the "list view", but it gets distorted and pixelated in the "cover flow" view. I updated the latest directx and also performed the direct diagnostic tools for direct draw acceleration and direct 3d, but the "cover flow" view is still poorly shown. Again, PC's suck...anyone know fix? Thanks.

I can't be of any help. But I do have the exact same problem on my Mac Pro. All the album art is there but Cover Flow itself is just not working. Not even after a clean install of Mac OS 10.6.1

Album Art iTunes 11

In the latest crappy version of itunes 11.0 how do you get it to show album art. Better yet Cover Flow.

If you are in Album view and click Song view, you can view all the information you wish. It is an extra click but innovation seems to be that way these days.

How do I revert back to previous (before 11) itunes. Someone nicked my Album Cover flow, without asking

how do I revert back to previous (before 11) itunes.
Someone nicked my Album Cover flow, without asking. I have snow leopard. I was happy. Just before Christmas as if I havent got enough to do Thank You. I've given Apple loads of money this year--presents and all, the least they could do is tell me, they're going to take stuff off of My computer that I enjoy,/ find very useful/ and worked hard to update all my album covers and have a gallery of my own artwork for my mixes--it was beautiful. When I went to add some more, the facility had been taken away from me. Was so dissapointed. They send me emails all the time to buy the latest must have products. I even did a questionair to help them. They really care for their customers--right. So why couldnt they warn me about this update, its only polite.
If I bought a warm coat some years ago, then the manufatures came round without my knowledge and cut off the left arm, and later told me, their reserch says that people dont use the left arm so much so they have to get rid of it. 1. I think that would be illegal. 2. its impolite not to ask if they could do it. 3. why not give me an options to keep it, seeing as i bought it. 4. its ludicrous.
I trusted Apple-but then -they took my YouTube off my ipad. I cant update to newer software as I will lose some expensive programms (Im not made of money). I also have 2 oldish defunct but fully working laser printers (if they were compatible with new software).
Im not a techky-I just use the stuff, I do art and music and Cover Flow was equipement I used.
I want to get rid of itunes 11, anyhelp out there

click the blue download button...
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1576

Removing "Unknown Album" from Cover Flow

Is it possible to remove any albums that don't have names (but are named "Unknown Album" on the iPod) from Cover Flow, but still keep those songs on your iPod? The "Unknown Album" art clutters Cover Flow...I don't mind it in Now Playing but in Cover Flow, it's kind of an eyesore.

Sorry, I should have been more specific. After posting this, I realize that on the iPod, all the "Unknown Album" songs are put at the end of the cover flow in Various Artists - Unknown Album rather than cluttering up the cover flow. This will work for me. On iTunes, however, it still clutters up cover flow. I find it odd that iPod cover flow and iTunes cover flow act differently.

Cover flow and album sort issues

I just got a 80GB iPod classic for Christmas and I have noticed some annoying differences between iTunes cover flow and iPod cover flow:
1. In iTunes cover flow, when you have songs with "Unknown Album", they clutter up the cover flow for each artist. In iPod cover flow, they are sent to the back of the cover flow in a nice little "Various Artists" cover. I like how this works on the iPod better.
2. iTunes cover flow sorts by album artist, so you don't see a separate album for each non-album artist song.
For example: If I set my album artist for the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever" (don't ask why, this is how i like it sorted) then I will only see one "Saturday Night Fever" rather than one for Bee Gees, one for Kool & the Gang, etc.
iPod cover flow sorts by artist, so you see a separate album for each non-album artist song. I like the way this works in iTunes better.
3. When sorting by "Album by Year" in iTunes, syncing the iPod doesn't seem to follow the same sorting. Albums are still sorted on the iPod alphabetically. I want them to sort by year on my iPod.
So I would appreciate it if someone could help me with all 3 of these issues. As you can see, sometimes iTunes is better for me, sometimes iPod is better for me.

3. Playlists should be sorted in the same way as they are in iTunes. The Cover Flow order is fixed.
This is not the case, at least not with iTunes 7.5.0.20 and my 80GB Classic running 1.0.3 on it (current version as of this writing). In iTunes, under LIBRARY, I select Music, and I have my music sorted via *Album by Year*. This works perfectly in iTunes. I'll use my Soundgarden library as an example, as it shows the problem nicely.
*_iTunes order_:*
Ultramega OK
Louder Than Love
Screaming Life/Fopp
Badmotorfinger
Superunknown
Songs From The Superunknown
Down on the Upside
A-Sides
That's ordered by date and is perfect. +Ultramega OK+ was released way back in 1988, while A-Sides was released nearly 10 years later in 1997. In Cover Flow View it works great. However, in the iPod it's sorted alphabetically, which is completely wrong:
*_iPod Classic_:*
A-Sides
Badmotorfinger
Down on the Upside
Louder Than Love
Screaming Life/Fopp
Songs From The Superunknown
Superunknown
Ultramega OK
This is totally wrong. And I haven't yet found a way to force it.
Apple, please, this shouldn't be that difficult.

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Cover Flow works well enough for me, it's just that there's a load (about 10-15) albums at the end of the list that aren't in any alphabetical order i.e. they're after Z and they're just in a random jumble.
Is there any way to sort this, as it looks messy and the jumble includes some of my favourite albums.

I have about 30 albums at the end of cover flow that are not compilations.
In iTunes select the Music source and then enter the album title for one of your preoblem albums in the search box. Is Compilations listed among the possible artists for the album? One track marked as part of a compilation would be enough to make the album cover appear at the end of cover flow in the compilations section and, becuase iPod shows all tracks with the same album title, it will list all the tracks when you turn it over to pick a track.
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I own a LOT of trance music compilations that come in packs of 3 cds. Coverflow only seems to sort by Artist name, and in my music collection each cd from the came compilation might start with a different artist, resulting in the 3 parts of the same album being scattered all over cover flow because of the varying artists.
Is there ANY way possible to make cover flow sort by album title only? PLEASE! I want to use this feature, but its pretty annoying for my type of music collection.

Well I have learned a little bit that helps. I discovered that I can highlight all of say Disc 1 in a compilation, and then right click on the selections and select Get Info. From here, I can flag all the songs as part of a compilation. Then I would do the same for Disc 2, and so on. This resulted in each CD component of an album getting grouped together in Coverflow, though albums that are not compilations ruin the alphabetical flow.
At least now my Disc 1, Disc 2 and Disc 3 of the compilations are next to each other, and not scattered all over, even if there is still no alphabetical order by album.

Album Art Temporarily Disappears in Cover Flow

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