Cover Flow... Style Over Substance

I don't know about you but I think that someone, somewhere deep in halls of Cupertino have got themselves into a right royal frenzy over Cover Flow.
We all remember that Cover Flow first appeared as a shareware plug-in for iTunes. Sure, it looked good but in all honesty, after playing with it for a minute or so it became obvious that as a means of actually selecting music, Cover Flow was pretty useless. I dumped it.
Similarly, those of us who have experienced using Cover Flow to select music on the new 6th Gen iPods have also realised that it is more a gimmick than a useful addition to the UI.
Now Leopard... After less than 24 hours using the the new operating system, I've once again reached the same conclusion. As a method of selecting files in the Finder, Cover Flow – in my opinion –is once again pretty useless.
Doubtless many out there will disagree but I think that Apple really should get over this Cover Flow fixation. Yes, we all know that it looks pretty and all that. But as a productivity tool it's worthless.
That's my ten penneth. I'd be interested in what others have to say.

Then don't use it - no one is forcing you to.
However I would say that you should keep an open mind and think past previous ways of doing things. For example I have a 'manuals' folder where I save downloaded manuals and docs. Coverflow is one way of browsing through that folder then when I see the document I want (which is one of the ideas of coverflow) I can page through it in coverflow view or, more likely, just press the spacebar to bring it up in Preview.
It works, and more importantly I have the choice.
Do I have coverflow set as default view for looking at folders - no of course not, it is not necessary and it consumes resources to render each image. But it's there if I want it - and for some folder/documents it is very nice.

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Day 1-3 - 25th, 26 & 27th September 2010
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The new cover flow style in ios 7 is not as nice as the ios 6??

iOS7, why Apple designed such a lack thing like this?? ****!! it doesn't feel so as comfortable as the iOS6. I really like iOS 6 than iOS7, but there is no way to turn back,, so hopeless!! and the iOS is like a copying of Microsoft's Windows 8, why Apple designed like this, why, why, why??

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iWeb has no support for Coverflow. So you have to design it yourself.
Or, can I use cover flow on a iWeb page (similar to my photos page)
If you have the code you can paste it in a HTML Snippet.
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http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5289779#5289779

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Cover flow lion finder window

Horrible horrible horrible feature of Lion:
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I want to review some more of the images I shot today in thumbnail to
open and start working on them in photoshop without waiting for iPhoto
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FLOW! they've Cover-Flow-ized the icon view when you do any kind of
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dropped the images I can see in one glance at the screen in this icon
by date view of the finder window to ONE, and I can't turn it off. I
do NOT have coverflow checked in view options.
Is there any way to kill coverflow completely in every place they've
put it?
(Feedback already sent to apple, BTW, if you have this problem too, and there's no solution offered by one of the bright folks on this board, please send them some at apple.com/feedback--the place to put feedback for programs like finder that don't have a 'send feedback' menu item))

Support call gave the solution: instead of 'Arrange by', use the 'clean up by' command under the view menu in Finder. This does what arrange by used to, and while the menu options are more limited than 'arrange by', it doesn't default to the cover-flow behavior that is so irritating.
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Can Cover Flow view be limited to playback of only one album at a time?

Hi all,
I've been using the Cover Flow view in my iTunes Library more and more lately (after years of suffering owning a slow machine). But there has been a question regarding playback that has been slightly nagging me for a little while. I couldn't come up with effective search results, so I'll pose the question to the masses.
Cover Flow playback (by default) seems limited to playing through one album and jumping straight into the next album in the Library without stopping. Scroll through the track listing in the lower screen and you'll notice that iTunes lists every track from every album in your Library.
(picture one of those digital bar jukeboxes and an unlimited bankroll...)
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I just have a thirst for knowledge.
Thanks,
Steve

Hi Jeremy,
Conversely, when clicking the album's title in the default List view, iTunes will only play the tracks in that particular album's playlist, and stop playback once this is finished.
I'm not sure I follow you here — if I click a track in list view, iTunes always goes on to the next track when it's over (assuming Shuffle is off). If that's the next track on an album, great, but when I come to the end of an album it moves on to the next one.
Or are you talking about the Browser? Selecting an album in the Album browser pane will indeed produce the results you're describing, since the rest of your library will be excluded.
Yes that's correct - my apologies, I was at work at the time and was working from memory. I've had the Browser enabled since day one that it almost becomes second nature.
My iTunes interface, while displaying in List mode with the Browser active, limits the upper display fields to only Artist and Album panes.
And exactly as you said, once the album finishes playing, iTunes ceases playback.
Is there a workaround in place to emulate this "List View" playback behavior for Cover Flow playback?
Yes, but it's a bit clunky: use the Search box to narrow down your library until only one album is displayed.
Yes you are correct - it is a bit clunky. But it does work for the most part, provided that the album title is unique from a song title on another album.
Thanks for the info Jeremy!
Steve

Cover flow in iTunes 11.x

Why isn´t in iTunes 11.x - it is out of all reason!!!
Load the iTunes-Store - and what will you see in head of the Store-Window??? Cover flow!!!

Dropped over 18 months ago. I miss it occasionally too, but it's a bit late to worry about it now.
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PS--too late to edit, but one thing to try, to make sure Coverflow isn't having some sort of major problem, is go to to a web site that has jpegs. Make yourself a folder on the Desktop, call it WebJPEGs, then click on a jpeg in the browser window, continue to hold the mouse button down, pause for just a second, and then, still holding the mouse button down, drag the jpeg out of the browser window and drop it (release the mouse button) when you are over the folder you created. Add several jpegs to the folder this way, then open the folder and put it in Coverflow. Does Coverflow draw the custom icons?
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Francine
Francine
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Here's something I've noticed:
1. When I uninstalled Dockstar, all problems went away. There's definitely something going on here.
2. When I reinstalled Dockstar, I am now only having problems with Mail remembering that one of my mailboxes is set to "organize by thread." (I had this problem before in addition to the window resizing). However, the window resizing problem seems to be gone (for today, at least).
Here's what's different:
1. I installed GrowlMail after they updated to a 64bit preference pane. (Not sure how this would impact it, but who knows...)
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Deleted files still have preview in cover flow in finder window

After I delete files while in cover flow view mode in finder, the preview and filename do not match. In fact the preview of the deleted file remains when a different file is selected. Every file below that shows a different preview. It resets to normal if I close and reopen the folder.
edit: Upon further investigation I see I am not alone. Someone else even posted a link to report the bug, which I did.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Message was edited by: Ravenkeeper

Support call gave the solution: instead of 'Arrange by', use the 'clean up by' command under the view menu in Finder. This does what arrange by used to, and while the menu options are more limited than 'arrange by', it doesn't default to the cover-flow behavior that is so irritating.
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