Cover Flow bug or feature?

With Finder Preferences set to "Always open folder in a new window" and Finder view set to Cover Flow, double-clicking a folder icon in the top (Cover Flow) portion of the Finder window opens its contents in a new window behind the existing window, whereas double-clicking the same folder in the lower (List) section of the Finder window opens its contents in a new window in front of the existing window

Hi,
I installed Leopard yesterday and have exactly the same problem.I think its a bug but would be interested to know if a new install fixes it - its really annoying!
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Cover Flow Bug

I've noticed a bug in cover flow when using the iPod feature of the iPhone. When you first load cover flow, each of the artwork images is crystal clear. Flowing through each one, the images are perfect. However, if I scroll fast from side to side, after about 3 times, when I stop on each album, it's a bit blurry. I wait for it to become unblurry, but it stays that way. If I rotate my iPod to get out of cover flow, and back in, the covers again are just fine.
I am able to reproduce this bug every time. I don't know if anyone else has had this issue. I just bought my iPhone from the Apple store and I have the latest updates.
I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE my phone! This is the best thing since my first iPod, my first Mac, my first..... yes, this is just great!!!!
Bryan

Prof. wrote:
When I am listening to a song and I go to cover flow it matches the song that's playing.
Yeah, but do this: put the iPod touch sideways in the little stand, so it's showing cover flow. If you never pick up or move the iPod, the cover that's displayed will never change. The only way to get it to refresh is to turn it vertical long enough for the currently playing song to show up, then back to sideways. I did some research and it seems that the iPhone does that, too, so I figured it was either deliberate on Apple's part, or just something they haven't implemented yet.
Here's what's kind of odd about it, though: cover flow knows when the song changes, because if you watch it closely, the text below the cover changes when the currently cover is not for the currently playing song. I don't have my iPod handy, but it's something like when the cover is current, it's the artist name and the name of the song that's playing. But when it switches to a new song, the song name is replaced by the album name. Something like that, anyway.
In any case, I've also sent feedback to have cover flow follow the currently playing track.
charlie

[COVER FLOW BUG] Double albums in some circumstances

I have found a bug affecting the Cover Flow feature.
I have 2 Albums called "Greatest Hits" on my iPod
Queen - Greatest Hits, and Venga Boys - Greatest Hits.
If I open these albums using Cover Flow, a list of songs from both albums appear, instead of just the selected album.
Repro Steps:
1. Open Queen - Greatest Hits within Cover Flow
2. It will show all songs from Queen - Greatest Hits, as well as Venga Boys - Greatest Hits.
3. It should only be showing the songs from Queen, not Venga Boys.
Anyone else able to reproduce this? When having two albums with the same name?

See http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6227178 for more info.
tt2

Cover Flow Bugs

I have a couple of issues with cover flow. One is that one disk album has two covers. The other is that there is no order to cover flow. Is there any way to fix these annoying bugs in what looks like it other wise might be a useful feature?

There is a 100% way to fix this bug that's pretty simple, although it can be time consuming if you have a large library like I do.
iTunes pretty much looks at common characteristics like CD title and artist to determine what album covers to display. Now, if the software sees the same album title, but 5 different variations with the artist, it'll most likely tag your library to display the same album cover 5 times.
To get around this, select all of the tracks to an album that is displaying multiple covers by clicking on the top most track, then holding the shift key, clicking on the bottom most track. After that, right click on any of the highlighted tracks and select the "get info" option (for you single-button mouse users out there, I believe you hold the command button and click . Make sure the info tab is selected.
You will see a bunch of fields you can use to tag your music, but the one you want to key in on is the Album Artist field. By identifying one album artist, your telling the software that "this is all on album, don't get hung up on the variations". After you enter the album artist info and click "ok", it'll process the tracks that were selected and consolidate them all under one album cover!
This is the perfect solution for albums that feature a lot of different artists/guest stars, like OutKast's "Idlewild" CD, for example.

Small Cover Flow bug

Hello everybody. I have a brand new iPod Touch 32 GB, I love it. But I have a small problem. When I'm browsing through my albums using cover flow, a few flicks in, it goes abruptly back to the "home" screen and stops whatever song I'm playing.
Everything else seems to work on the device, but Cover Flow has that litte bug. Well, I have a lot of titles (6633, and NO DEVIL :-)), it perhaps explains it, but I can't go througt all my albums cover arts without a bug. It always seems to work correctly bt suddently BOOM, it bugs.
I have already reinstalled the software (1.1.4), but it still bugs.
Does anyone know what to do ?
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If you further use your Touch, you will discover that it is not only the cover flow that is triggering this behaviour. It can happen all the time, even with the screen disactivated and only playing music. It can happen while ony looking at pictures. It rather often happens when using safari.
Do a search on the forum here for "return to home screen" and learn how many people do have this problem. It is a serious bug.
Btw. everytime this happens, your playcounts get deleted too...
bye
Wolfgang

Cover Flow bug? Albums out of alphabetical artist order

Can somebody tell me why certain albums are placed all the way at the end, when viewing Cover Flow on my iPhone?
For example, Jay-Z's Black Album shows up as the very last album... instead of next to other Jay-Z albums I have.
This doesn't happen in iTunes Cover Flow - only when using Cover Flow on my iPhone.
There is nothing wrong with my tags or artist input, or anything - the Black Album is still listed under Jay-Z albums when you touch his name... It's just that when viewing it in Cover Flow, it's out of order. As if instead of Jay-Z, the artist was like 999 (past 3 Doors Down, 3OH!3, etc). The VERY last album.
This has happened to other albums too.
Anybody????

OMG I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT! It took me hours to figure out how to fix it and it'll take me another couple of hours to make sure the way it sorts it stays consistent, BUT I FINALLY GOT IT! It was secretly sorting it under Sort Album, which was hidden to me and so it sorted it under the origional album name and not what I'd tried to make it. I don't get what the difference is between Sort Album and asking it to sort my albums in alphabetical order, but OH WELL. This has been plauging my iPod for years and I finally figured it out! A million thanks!

Cover Flow bug in Simplified Chinese version

in both OS 3.1.2 and 3.1.3 Simplified Chinese version.
If I use the English/Traditional Chinese version, the bug doesn't exist.
Thanks.
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Thanks.
I've found that now.

Cover flow still crashes after updating to ios 5.0.1!

I know that many people had the cover flow bug that was crashing everytime, in my case after updating it to ios 5.0.1 it still happens! i wanted to know if to other users happen the same or if the issue was solved

From the Users Guide:
Browsing album artwork in Cover Flow
When you browse music, rotate iPod touch to see your iTunes content in Cover Flow and browse
your music by album artwork.

Safari has added this stupid feature to bookmarks called cover flow and it covers up my list of bookmarks so I cannot edit/rearrange them. How do I get rid of the black, useless space in bookmarks, bring back bookmarks manager?

How do I get rid of this annoying feature in Safari known as cover flow which appears as a balck void in bookmarks? the bookmarks manager is nowhere to be found and now I'm going to Google instead of Safari.

Move the mouse pointer to the bottom of the black area.
Mouse pointer should turn into a hand pointer.
Double click.
The Cover Flow should shrink into small black strip at the top.
To revert back, move the mouse pointer to the black strip at the top.
When the pointer turns into a hand pointer, double click.

Annoying bug: Duplicate albums in the Cover Flow view

When viewing my music via the Cover Flow view (sorting Album by Artist) I frequently come across an album that appears twice. For example, I see two copies of Florence and the Machine's "Lungs" side by side. The first copy contains the first track on the album and the second copy has the remainder of the album.
My first thought was "Oh, I must have mislabeled the album field of that first track so it's being saved as a different album... maybe I put in an extra space or something." But when I view the album in the Finder, all the tracks are in the same album folder. Just to be sure, I selected all the tracks on the album in iTunes and made sure the Album info field was correct, checked the checkbox, and clicked OK. Still nothing changes.
I was finally able to fix this by selecting all the tracks on the album in iTunes and changing the Album info field to a completely NEW name (in this example "Lungs TEMP", then selecting them all again and renaming them BACK to the CORRECT name (Lungs). Ta da... Yea. Now there's only one "Lungs" album in Cover Flow.
No big deal if I only had to do this once, but this bug exists all over the place! 11,000 songs is a lot to sort through. It's almost like iTunes is caching bad data somewhere, but I don't know how to delete this cache.
Ideas? Anyone else seen this behavior?

It happens... See http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp for more.
tt2

Bug report - Finder crashes in Cover Flow mode with large files

I just came back from the Apple store and was told that I have discovered another bug in Leopard. When in Cover Flow view in Finder and trying to browse directories with large ( multiple GB) files, Finder continually crashes and reboots, oftentimes with 2 new FInder windows.
I created a new user on my MBP to remove the effect of any preferences and the problem repeated itself.
Come up Apple... get on top of these bugs and issue some patches...
Not the kind of new OS I expected from a top notch company like Apple.

Ah... that'll be it then, they are 512 x 512. well i guess that bugs been hanging around for quite some time now, anyone got any ideas if anyone's trying to fix it? i guess making 128 x 128 icons wouldn't be the end of the world but it does seem like a step backwards.
one thing that still confuses me... an icon file contains icons of all sizes, why does cover flow not select the right size icon to display?
thanks for that info V.K., much obliged.
regards, Pablo.

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.

Cover Flow view bug

Is there a better place than this to submit bug reports to Apple?
Problem: Multiple albums named the same (i.e. Greatest Hits) by different artists have problems in Cover Flow view. The albums have separate cover art, but when selecting the album to look at songs in the album, all songs on every album named the same show up. This can't be what Apple had in mind, since in iTunes, the Cover Flow view sort default is "Album by Artist", and it's not a problem seeing other artists albums named the same. This is also a problem in Album view, where there is only one entry for all albums named the same (i.e. Greatest Hits).
Solution? Add secondary search criteria (artist) for both Cover Flow and Album views. This way, each album is a separate entry (album view) and has only the correct songs (cover flow view).
Love the Nano 3rd gen, but this bug is very blatant and should have been fixed prior to release. Apple, please fix it. I don't want to have to rename all my albums "xxxxxxx's Greatest Hits"!

Quick follow up. Is there a setting in the Nano to fix this (sort by option)?

Finder Bug Renaming files with cover flow

If I try to rename a file using finder with cover flow using left and right arrows for moving in the filename, it goes up and down on file selection

A similar issue is evident in "List" view, when renaming a file inside a folder whose "disclosure triangle" is expanded. If you happen to be working a few levels down, it closes them all.
Maddening!
If you feel so inclined, please submit a bug report. Hopefully issues that receive a lot of complaints will be addressed.
http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/

Bug with the cover flow in OS3.1.2

I am a Chinese user of iTouch and I have found a bug with the cover flow.
In the normal mode, there is only 1 album. But when i switch it to the cover flow, it has more than one, all of which have the complete album after it.
what's still peculiar is that
1.it happens only to the simplified chinese songs.
2.when i switch the language of my itouch to traditional chinese or english, there is 1 cover flow.
can anyone help me?

tell apple. http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipodtouch.html

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