Cover Flow on old iPods

I have a 5th gen iPod with video. Does anyone know if these older iPods will be able to use the new cover flow style operating system? That would be great if they could...

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The cover flow in my ipod doesn't work

When I'm in cover flow view and playing an album, the ipod keeps on looping the same album. Also, can the cover flow view plays songs by tracks but not albums?

Cover flow lets you select an album to play, optionally letting you choose which track to start playing. What happens next depends on your shuffle & repeat options, but it will only play tracks from the selected album until you choose another one.
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ITunes 7.3.2: ArtWork does not match Images on Cover Flow View and iPod

Hello everyone, this is my first post, thanks in advance for any and all help.
I have loaded most of my music collection onto iTunes, and authorized it to get album artwork. It has only found about 60% of my cover art (I have a lot of international discs, etc.), and of what it does find maybe 60% is correct. So I have spent a lot of time adding artwork by either scanning in cover art or cutting and pasting from the web. I go to "Get Info" and check the artwork tab all the time to make sure that only artwork that is correct or that I have added is attached to each of my song files.
However, I have noticed that there is a significant amount of my song files that, when I use cover flow view, or when I play the songs on my video iPod, the artwork that is on the artwork pane and what appears on the cover flow view don't match. Or the artwork that is in the artwork pane (and the only artwork in the get info artwork section) and what shows up on my iPod, don't match up. It is, for an OCD completist like me, rather annoying.
As an example, I have a lot of compilation albums. I have probably 13 different albums by different artists but which all have the same name of "The Ultimate Collection". There are some tracks for each album where the artwork pane and the cover flow view artwork match, but not all of the tracks.
I selected "group compilations when browsing", but that doesn't help. I selected all the tracks from the same album and clicked yes to whether it is a compilation, and that didn't work.
Does anyone have a simple, QUICK solution for making the artwork I have put in the artwork pane override or force itself on the cover flow view? Horrible phrasing I know, but thank you in advance for your help!

I had the same problem when I updated to 7.3, but I was able to fix it.
As far as I can tell, itunes 7.3 sees all music files (in your user/itunes/music folder) with the extension .mpg as quicktime movies, not mp3's and itunes won't let you add a cover to them. The problem is that songs imported as mp3's by previous versions of iTunes were all given the extension .mpg and not .mp3 (at least on my machine). I was able to fix the problem by simply changing the .mpg to .mp3 for all of my songs. As soon as I did this, the album artwork showed up again.
You have a few options for how you change the extension. You can right click on every file in your itunes library and select "Show In Finder" to change the file extension, or if you have many songs to fix (I had 793) you can download 'A Better Finder Rename' (search for it at www.versiontracker.com, it costs $20 to change more than 10 files at a time) which will make the changes automatically. If you are cheap you can always set up an automator work-flow to get the job done.
Hope this helps

The Cover Flow on my iPod classic is out of order

I use the cover flow option on my iPod classic to get to the music I want to listen to and discovered that my albums are out of order in regards of being alphabetical order by artists. For example the greatest hits and soundtracks and other compilations are moved to the back instead of being in order with the artist that made the album. Is there anyone that can help me resolve this issue?

See my previous post on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic Missing Artist or Album not with others by same artist.
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Cover Flow issues w/ iPod Nano 3G

Anyone else experience issues when browsing albums/music via the Cover Flow feature on an iPod Nano 3G? This is my second 8 gig unit (received directly from Apple) that's exhibiting the same symptoms of freezing/hanging when sifting through my album artwork. Believe it might have to do w/ buffer limitations w/ a large library as I find the feature seems to work more reliable w/ a smaller musical library. Also having troubles syncing contacts and calendars if my music library exceeds over half the capacity of the device (4+ gigs) - very annoying Any solutions/suggestions out there?

Okay! cover flow is working fine after replacing jpg. Its easier than I described above to replace the songs and associated cover art.
Click on your iPod in iTunes (Left Menu) Select Summary Tab at the top. Check "Manually Manage Music And Videos" (you may want to uncheck it later, to automatically sync your library) (Also check "Convert to 128 AAC" to save space on your iPod) Click "Apply" lower right corner.
Next click the Music Tab and uncheck "Sync Music". Click "Apply", (lower right corner). If it says its going to erase all on iPod then just leave it.
Click the small down arrow beside your iPod in iTunes left menu. Click on Music. It shows the songs on your iPod. Click on the songs to delete. (Use Shift click first and last song to select a bunch (control click to select some but not all)
Now Go to Library --> Music (left menu) and select the songs to replace (with the new reduced art) and drag and drop them on your iPod (left menu) (Use Shift Click / Cntrl Click to select multiple songs and then just drag one they will all be copied). You can also use Copy/ Paste if you dont want to drag and drop.
This works, and takes less time than replacing your whole library by syncing. Good luck!

Error in Cover Flow mode on Ipod Touch

Since updating to version 2.2 my list of music tracks in List View Mode is correct. However when I hold my Touch in landscape mode and it changes to Cover Flow some of the tracks and artist names are incorrect. I have also found that some album covers show incorrectly. Any ideas please?

Hi, i have the same problem, restore the device two times, and put the music in auto sync, and manually, a few albums, a lots albums, the problem is the same, and in the album list the problem persist but is less problematic.
This is a huge bug, is an IPOD, is for music!!!!
For other way, the "STORE" button is a crap, only think in U$S, "STORE" here, "STORE" there, in all places.
Another thing, the "GESTURES" is thinking for IPAD device, Some functions should be disabled from the interface., for that i have an option what dont have any funcion to me?!
IPOD TOUCH 4G 32GB
(sorry for my elemental english)

Cover flow- 6th generation ipod

ok so apple releases an 'ipod classic' with cover flow. really cool. but will the coverflow technology be available in an update for the last version of ipods before the 'classic' (i'm pretty sure i've got the 6th gen). it would really really suck if it wont be...

It's highly unlikely, in fact well nigh impossible that you have an iPod 6 gen as the 6 Generation iPods were just announced today.
Based on the fact when the late 2006 5th gen iPods (also called 5.5) were released with the new search feature, that feature was not made available to the earlier iPods, I say that CoverFlow won't be available for existing iPods.

Is there a way of making my iPod's "cover flow" sort in the same way the software can . Artist -- Album by Year . It only seems to do Artist -- by Alphabetical Album . I want it look like it does on the PC .

Is there a way to make the "cover flow" on the iPod match the sort style that I use on the software . I go with Artist -- Album by Release Year . But the ipod seems to only do Artist -- Alphabetical by Album , and then there are a handful of albums oddly out of place . Can it be done ?

Ottonomy, here's what to do.
Connect your iPhone to your computer and open the iPhone's playlist in an iTunes window. Copy/Paste the entire playlist into a new(!) playlist in iTunes, not on your iPhone. Then resort the playlist. After you sort it, Copy/Paste it to a new(!) playlist on your iPhone. Now delete the old playlist on your iPhone and rename the new playlist the name you want it to be (probably the same name as the old playlist).
The downside to this method is that you have to do it every time you add a song to the playlist. Unfortunately, I don't think there's another way.

TS1468 I am having trouble with two cover flows duplicating themselves more than once, is there anyone out there that can help me with this, they are not duplicated in my itunes library, just the ipod.

I am having trouble with two cover flows on my IPOD, duplicating themselves more than once, they haven't duplicated themselves in my Itunes library, just the ipod, could anyone have any ideas on how I could fix this problem. I have tried so many times, even if I restore the ipod, it still does the same thing. Please if possible email me at [email protected] with any suggestions.

Aha! I have sorted it.
For those with similar problems, the solution is this:
Macintosh HD > Library > Audio > MIDI Drivers
Then delete DigiDioMidiDriver.plugin

Ipod nano - cover flow sort order nano 5th gen

hi community,
i'm using different ipods (3rd gen, 4th gen, 5th gen, nano) and i love tagging my mp3s (artist, album, _but not_ album artist)
the sorting in cover flow for my ipod (3rd, 4th gen, touch, _but not 5th gen_) is fine for me: first regular albums then compilations.
with the nano 5th generation sorting is as follows: regular album + compilations mixed - base is artist name ( not fine for me ).
what i want is: first regular albums, than compilations (analogue ipod nano 4th). workaround for this should be: setting of album artist.
my question: do i have to setup my album artist for the desired sort order in nano 5th, and how will be the sort order in cover flow for the future? (e.g. nano 6th gen., + followers (because i don't want to reset my tags weeks later once again ....)
thanks for your reply.
best regards
itunes_gef

Hi Damon et al:
I agree with you that you shouldn't have to screw around with the file names. The iPod should allow you to sort in a variety of ways (e.g. any of the fields in the MP3 metadata, and in forward or reverse order). I'm going to keep checking back on this thread to see if more information comes out of it, but it looks to me like a flaw in the iPod OS, not a user-education issue.
Cheers,
bkengland
P.S. One would hope that the Apple program managers look at these threads for RFE ideas!
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ITunes cover flow mis-match betwn Macbk pro & ipod

I have approx 300 albums on my Mac, synced with a 160GB ipod classic. Using "cover flow" on the ipod, it matches very well for the first 250 albums or so -- by author, then title. But the final ones are then apparently random by author / title. I've checked the "info" and that seems fine, author in the right slot etc. Any ideas?

See http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp
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Cover flow on ipod nano not working

My cover flow on my ipod stopped working when i plugged in ipod. Have the covers on itunes just not ipod. Also songs skip to next song sometimes also. Could be any song I never know. Seems since i upgraded to new itunes version stuff has been going wrong.

Try checking your ipod settings, i had an itunes one change on its own once. Go to settings, then general, then rotate. If it says "off", then just hit the center button. If it says "cover flow", then see if it's the orientation sensor by going to the "maze" game if you have it to test it. The circle thing on the menu will probably glitch up/not move if it's the orientation sensor. If it responds normally (rolls/slides in the direction you tip the ipod), then i'm not sure. Try calling their customer service line at 1-800-APL-CARE (1-800-275-2273) if that happens. Also, if you are walking w/ it with the hold switch off, then it may me that your walking is shaking it enough to shuffle it. That's my theory, anyway.
BTW, are you're sure the ipod's not too flat for the sensor to register the rotation? I've done that before. It'll register at about a 45 degree angle.

Viewing cover flow through ipod playing on itunes

I have too much music and don't keep it all on the computer hard drive. Can I plug ipod into itunes and view Cover Flow of the ipod contents while its playing? Cover Flow works great with the files that are in itunes Library, just not through the ipod>computer>itunes.

Can I plug ipod into itunes and view Cover Flow of the ipod contents while its playing?
No.

Cover flow with ipod

I just downloaded itunes 7 for windows, amd running windows XP and I have an Ipod nano.
cover flow works fine with my libarary on my computer, but I am not able to use it when I play music from my ipod through itunes on my computer. Is this not an option or am I doing something wrong.
help?

Well actually you've always been able to play music via your iPod on the computer.
The point of being able to do this is if you have a situation in which you plug your iPod into a computer other than your own (or the one the iPod is associated with) that doesn't have any of your music on it, like a computer at work or in a school computer lab, etc. I use this all the time at the office.
It would be neat to see cover flow on the iPod, but I'm fairly certain that would require some 3d graphics acceleration, which iPods don't quite have yet. Hopefully once they get to that point, they'll be able to do fullscreen visualizations :-D.

IPod Classic Cover Flow

How can I get the cover flow on my iPod Classic to show albums only once in album artist order the same as it does in iTunes. Albums with a number of artist such as those by Jools Holland with a guest artists appear a number of times on my iPod. I want them to appear only once in cover flow like compilations.

mini x wrote:
You need to fill in one "album-artist“ (in „sort-by") for all titles of album.
That approach doesn't really work...
See http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp for solutions.
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