Cover Flow Magically Re-Appeared

But just for a while.
While in the list view, in the center window the song had a small image of the album and when I clicked on it the albumartwork re-appeared as if I had clicked the album artwork pull down/up in the previous versions.
It went away. How to get it back. How to get back the little album artwork in the center window so I can click it again?

Aha, click the double arrows in the center bar to reveal the thumbnail, then click the thumbnail for full album art.

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Dont' know if this issue has been answered already before, couldn't find it.
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Here's the fix - at least for me: I shared the entire library not just the particular songlist, then i selected the songlist in question from the client computer - well below the name of the host
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Cover Flow has disappeared!

hi everyone.
ok,
So i couldn't run Sharepod with my ipod, so i deleted the 'ArtworkDB' file from my ipod directory (big mistake not backing that file up like usually would)
NOW ALL THE ARTWORK ON MY IPOD HAS VANISHED!
over 400 hundred albums GONE!!!!!!!!!!
the only raye of hope i have left is that, the artwork is still displayed on itunes. every album cover is STILL there, intact and being desplayed beautifully!
now.PLEASE tell me that there is a way i can somehow....RE-CREATE the ArtworkDB file from itunes? pleeeeeeeeeaaaaasssse
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So Cover Flow no longer appears as an option under the Music category on your iPod Classic?
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Anyone else having this? House of mirrors with cover flow.
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So Cover Flow no longer appears as an option under the Music category on your iPod Classic?
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They are all still there!
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The same album appears more than once in cover flow

*1st question:* I just got my i-pod and i-tunes pulled album artwork automatically for the songs i put in i-tunes (not all of them of course), but when i view them on my i-pod using cover flow it will have the same album cover 2 or 3 times side by side. How do i get the cover flow option to only show one album? Why is it doing this - doubling up on an album with the same songs? Do i have to rename the album within the properties of the mp3 files to make them all the same?
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Can i assign a mp3 file or song to a specific album within i-tunes?
Right click - get info and type in an album name.
If i have a song that i don't know the album name
I'd give it an album name of Unknown Album
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so as I see it people with this problem have 3 options
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- Scrap ipods and buy another brand of music player
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Try:
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Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
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- Unsync all music and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
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- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
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The "Cover Flow" / "Album Artist" duplicate albums problem on the iPod

Hi Guys,
I've made some research about this issue and got to some interesting conclusions.
DISCLAIMER:
1. I searched the web and found people describing this problem since 2006 till 2009 and the solution always revolved around not using the "Artist" and the "Album Artist" tags like they should be used.
2. I did a lot of testing, including re-writing the ID3 tags in different versions and formats to rule out any issues around the tags themselves.
3. If the stuff I'm going to describe is already well known than sorry about that, I just couldn't find it anywhere.
PROBLEM:
An album that has a single Album Artist and different Artists appears several times in the iPod Cover Flow although it looks just fine in iTunes.
Tagging the tracks as "Part of a Compilation" only partially solves the issue since the album will appear in the iPod Cover Flow as a Compilation showing up in the end and not together with the "Album Artist" like in iTunes and like it should.
It seems to be a simple issue around the way the iPod uses the "Album Artist" tag but it also seems to be around forever and it's strange Apple hasn't looked into it.
RESEARCH:
Since I just bought a new iPod Classic, I was again looking into this issue and now I was getting annoyed, strangely the behaviour wasn't the same for all the albums that were suffering from the problem. I found that when the Artist was a combination of, for example:
Album - AlbumX
Album Artist - ArtistX
Track 1 - ArtistX
Track 2 - ArtistX Feat. X
Track 3 - ArtistX
Track 4 - ArtistX Feat. Z
Track 10 - ArtistX Feat. XYZ
In the iPod Cover Flow I got ONLY TWO different albums, one with "ArtistX" and another one with "ArtistX Feat. X".
Well, this was very different from the normal behaviour when the artists are all completely different, in which case you get X amount of albums according to the X amount of different artist names you have.
CONCLUSION:
It seems to have something to do with the dot ".", I reached the conclusion that for Artist interpretation in the iPod when the Artist tag has a dot "." then it stops interpreting. That means that if you had a "." after the main artist name than it will show only once, like in the above example:
Album - AlbumX
Album Artist - ArtistX
Track 1 - ArtistX. <---- NOTICE THE DOT
Track 2 - ArtistX. Feat. X
Track 3 - ArtistX.
Track 4 - ArtistX. Feat. Z
Track 10 - ArtistX. Feat. XYZ
Then in the iPod Cover Flow it will show up only once as AlbumX - ArtistX.
I prefer to use the dots instead of just removing all the "Featurings and similar" since I can still see it normally if I play the track.
So, in the end, a combination like this in your "Artist" tag: "Album Artist"."Artist" would solve the problem in the iPod.
I would love for Apple to solve this issue and I hope this helps.
Has someone else noticed this or am I going crazy?
Thanks!

sometimes the official title of a release does include the Feat. Guest info.
Yes, but only in some (or many) cases. There seems to be no consistency here, as if Apple were paying no attention about where to put "feat. guest". And I guess most of the data in CDDB (Gracenote) still have "feat. guest" in Artist (correctly, in my opinion).
I quite agree that your workaround is the best workaround. I'm just too self-willed (obstinate?, I don't know the correct English) and don't want to pollute my Library with "wrong" data. Most of the problems would simply be solved if, just if Apple make iPods sort/group artists as iTunes do. Sorry but this is how I feel. I guess you can't help people like me. Thank you for your patience.
Anyway, we need a clear document from Apple describing what are the intended uses of various tags, and iTunes/iPods should obey this document. It seems for me that each Apple engineer is doing just what (s)he wants to do, without any guidelines.

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