Blurry album art with iTunes 11

So i got very blurry album art with iTunes 11. It seems to scale album art wrongly with my screens resolution, which is 1920x1080.
When i make iTunes smaller the album art is fine and not blurry.
I didn't have this problem with 10.7 as it had the slider for customizing album art size.
So what can I do to change this?

What is the competition you're referring to?
I use itunes as a database and a jukebox.I embedded thousands of jpegs into my HUGE itunes library so that while I'm playing a music file I can see who's playing what.In the earlier version of itunes I could have all the information as well as all the music in one place on one external hard drive.
The ability to expand front and back lp covers or scroll thru the entire cd booklet is a great feature that iTunes has now eliminated. My project using itunes was to completely digitize my music collection-all the music files and all the lp covers/cd booklets etc. I have spent the last five years at least working on this.Luckily I have all my jpegs in a separate folder outside of itunes so my endless scanning has not been totally in vain.I know better than to put all my eggs in one basket...
Please tell me what program or software can do what iTunes used to do and I will gladly use it.
Or if apple would offer the earlier versions of iTunes(with the eliminated features) for power users like me that might be better than nothing.
Eventually when I get a new mac I will be forced to use the current version of itunes,I won't have a choice....
Maybe by then, the competion will come up with what I'm looking for... thanks for reading.

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