Cover flow in playlists?

Hi all!
I love cover flow but don't like it only works on my entire list of synched music. I would like to be able to switch to cover flow from WITHIN a playlist and thus only showing the covers of the albums in this playlist. Is this possible? I hope so very much!
Thanks for any clues ...
Dan

Thanks for your reply. This is annoying, since I have lots of singles and lots of albums on my iPod and would like to browse only through my playlist of COMPLETE albums using cover flow. Apple clearly hasn't thought this through yet.
Greetings,
Dan

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