Cover Flow & Album by Artist / Album by Year

I've been playing with V7 for a few hours now and Cover Flow seems pretty good.
I generally don't like to mess with the sort order of my 15,000 odd database: I like things to be: sorted by Artist, and within artist by album (either alphabetically or by year). Ideally with compilations at the end of the list.
I seem to be able to achieve this using using 'Album' heading - which toggles between album, album-by-artist and album-by-year.
My only 'problem' is that in the Cover Flow view, whilst the ordering is great and I can easily navigate sequentially using the cursor keys, typing a character on the keyboard jumps to the first album with that letter - not the first artist which is what I want.
Am I missing something (or perhaps just want too much without having to keep re-ordering things)?
Any ideas...?
iMac (power PC) Mac OS X (10.4.7)

It doesn't seem like it sorts by field or any particular order. It more looks like it sorts by free text, the first match, whatever it is, comes first. That means you'll have to write letters until your lettercombination forms a word/name/album etc that can be found anywhere.
Sitara

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When I do this, iTunes "processes" the songs but then nothing happens. If I go back to Get Info, it doesnt save anything I typed in.
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I just got an 80gb ipod and have all my songs on it now. i am just about finished with getting all of the album covers that i didnt have into my itunes now. i didnt get any of the album covers from itunes, i just did a search for all of em in google.
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Message was edited by: gconley

nope, the songs are not mixed up at all. like i said, its just the album art and the artist name underneath the album which reads "various artists". my queen greatest hits and my red hot chili peppers greatest hits say the same thing and both have my zz top greatest hits album cover lol.
now if you click get info on the album the artwork is the correct artwork which blows my mind.
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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.
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Assassin X wrote:
---With Cover Flow I updated the Album Art myself and have about 700 songs with art now. But I have two problems.
1. It won't display all 700 songs under Cover Flow!
2. It won't show them in order by song name! Can I change that?!? If not then how is it showing them by? What do I need to change?
Cover flow on the ipod can only be done (as far as I know) on Album by Artist Name. On iTunes you can change it around
Assassin X wrote:
---Are there any other video types supported besides that on Mpeg4 and that other weird type? If not why not? Its a pain to have to convert everything. Its almost not worth having this video IPOD if you have to go through sop much effort just to watch 1 stupid video. I mean I spent more money on extra programs now for music and videos then I did on the IPOD almost.
Try using freeware, heres an excellent video converter for iPods:
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/

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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 of compilation albums not quite right on iPod Classic

Okay, so after receiving my new iPod classic 80gb the other day, I decided to go through and fix up a lot of my albums in iTunes to display properly in Cover Flow. I have lots of Various Artists albums and have marked all tracks in each album as part of a compilation so that they show up correctly in iTunes 7.4.1.2. Now, when I'm scrolling through Cover Flow within iTunes, these albums appear correctly as 1 entry of "Album Name", and then "Various Artists" underneath that.
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You r not alone Rob! I just posted the same complain in a previous thread...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1121028&tstart=0
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Hi folks,
Didn't see this posted yet - just synced my 3G nano and firmware 1.0.2 was available.
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The only thing which is now better in coverflow is, that compilations are now hidden, but coverflow still lists up the artists in alphabetical order, not the albums ! Why?
Apple, it can't be so difficult to let coverflow list up albums, _not artists_, in alphabetical order.
Compilations are now listed just once (as they should be), but there's always listed the first artists name of a compilation, instead of "various artists". Of course you can set in every single compilation the first tracks "sorting name" as "various artists", but it can't be so difficult for apple to make that as default, as it works in iTunes.
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I am running iTunes 7.3.2, and I am experiencing a strange "problem" with Cover Flow View.
A number of albums that I have downloaded from the iTunes store show up with 2 albums in Cover Flow View. In fact, it always appears to be 1 Album Cover for Track 1 of the Album and a 2nd Album Cover for the remaining tracks.
They are not compilations, and I have checked that the Album, Artist and Album Artist are all the same. In addition, it is only happening with 1 artist: Ali Farka Touré. All three albums: Niafunké, The Source and Talking Timbuktu do the exact same thing. This is true no matter what sorting I use, or even if I use search to limit the list to 1 album.

Mark Verschell wrote:
Well, solved this one myself. First let me add that in Album View, it showed up as 2 albums also (track 1 in one album, tracks 2..n in a second album)
I went back and looked carefully and the ONLY difference in these albums was that the Artist Name (and in one case, also the Album) contained an accented e (é).
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That sounds to me like Cover Flow somehow registered the "é" in most tracks but thought it was an "e" in some. The same thing happens with capitalization — if you change "Rage Against the Machine" to "Rage Against The Machine", most of iTunes will see the change immediately, but Cover Flow will sometimes continue to display the lower-case "the" until you whack it a few times. Since a difference in capitalization (or accenting) of a single letter will make two fields non-matching in iTunes's eyes, that could cause Cover Flow to split an album into "Rage Against the Machine" and "Rage Against The Machine" tracks.
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Hi all, got a strange problem.
I have my ipod set to sort by artist in the cover flow.
However, some albums pop up after the letter Z.
There are over 1400 cd's on it, but a 30-something do this.
I tried adding "artist sorting"tag to the albums, but it still shows.
Trust by Elvis Costello for example shows up after the z, while there is no reason at all to do that according to the info.
Anyone who has any tips, escept deleting the albums and adding them again in the hope the problem disappears ?

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
The albums that appear after Z will be marked as compilations. See my article on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic Missing Artist or Album not with others by same artist for details.
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