HT5457 How do I recover my cover flow for albums?

If I reset my Iphone to its factory setting, will this restore my album cover flow?

MacBook Airs don't run Classic. These two links should be helpful for it:
Apple Article to reset the password for 10.6.8 and earlier, and 10.7 and later.
Go to Apple menu -> About This Mac to find the operating system.
If you are totally locked out of the operating system, usually when you Option boot you can find out what you are booting if the machine can boot.

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Cover flow and album sort issues

I just got a 80GB iPod classic for Christmas and I have noticed some annoying differences between iTunes cover flow and iPod cover flow:
1. In iTunes cover flow, when you have songs with "Unknown Album", they clutter up the cover flow for each artist. In iPod cover flow, they are sent to the back of the cover flow in a nice little "Various Artists" cover. I like how this works on the iPod better.
2. iTunes cover flow sorts by album artist, so you don't see a separate album for each non-album artist song.
For example: If I set my album artist for the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever" (don't ask why, this is how i like it sorted) then I will only see one "Saturday Night Fever" rather than one for Bee Gees, one for Kool & the Gang, etc.
iPod cover flow sorts by artist, so you see a separate album for each non-album artist song. I like the way this works in iTunes better.
3. When sorting by "Album by Year" in iTunes, syncing the iPod doesn't seem to follow the same sorting. Albums are still sorted on the iPod alphabetically. I want them to sort by year on my iPod.
So I would appreciate it if someone could help me with all 3 of these issues. As you can see, sometimes iTunes is better for me, sometimes iPod is better for me.

3. Playlists should be sorted in the same way as they are in iTunes. The Cover Flow order is fixed.
This is not the case, at least not with iTunes 7.5.0.20 and my 80GB Classic running 1.0.3 on it (current version as of this writing). In iTunes, under LIBRARY, I select Music, and I have my music sorted via *Album by Year*. This works perfectly in iTunes. I'll use my Soundgarden library as an example, as it shows the problem nicely.
*_iTunes order_:*
Ultramega OK
Louder Than Love
Screaming Life/Fopp
Badmotorfinger
Superunknown
Songs From The Superunknown
Down on the Upside
A-Sides
That's ordered by date and is perfect. +Ultramega OK+ was released way back in 1988, while A-Sides was released nearly 10 years later in 1997. In Cover Flow View it works great. However, in the iPod it's sorted alphabetically, which is completely wrong:
*_iPod Classic_:*
A-Sides
Badmotorfinger
Down on the Upside
Louder Than Love
Screaming Life/Fopp
Songs From The Superunknown
Superunknown
Ultramega OK
This is totally wrong. And I haven't yet found a way to force it.
Apple, please, this shouldn't be that difficult.

How do i put a cover on the album when the album isnt a part of the itunes store?

How do i put a cover on the album when the album isnt a part of the itunes store?

fishmore wrote:
BUT the image didn't actually work and all I ended up with was the word JPEG and a generic image... Any assistance would be appreciated - Thank you.
Sounds like you copied an icon from the icon spot in a Get Info window for an image file, then pasted that intoo the same spot in the Get Info window for your folder. As you found out, that won't work - unless the image file already has a custom icon, that is.
Visually, it's hard to tell if an image file has a custom icon, particularly if View Options for a folder (or the desktop) has been set to 'show icon preview' - the OS will use Preview to make an icon for that file 'on the fly', but it does not really exist as far as being a copyable icon.
For what you want to do, the solution is really very easy.
Do a Get Info on the image file whose icon you want to copy for your folder. In that Get Info window is a larger depiction of the image about halfway down - double-click that, and it should open in Preview.
Press Command-A (that's Select All in the Edit menu).
Press Command-C (that's Copy in the Edit menu).
Close Preview, close the Get Info window for the image file.
Open the Get Info window for your folder.
Select the icon in the upper left by clicking it once - a blue border should appear around it.
Press Command-V (that's Paste in the Edit menu).
Close the Get Info window, and you're done.
Comment - that's a nice way to make unique folder icons, but there is one drawback: how to distinguish visually between a folder with such an icon and an image file.
One way, old school, is to append the character ƒ to the end of the name you give the folder. That character is easily generated by pressing Option-F and can be a visual indicator that the item is actually a folder and not an image.

Cover flow for videos or is it just the cd art?

Is there cover flow for videos or just cd covers?. I will have more video than audio on my itouch but they have never showed cover flow for video.

I know what you mean Durwin, Unfortunatley this is not possible at this time, athough the good news is:
It is something which can be added in a software update!! - I don't think you've seen the last of what the iPod Touch can do. Apple doesn't stop at the functionality of when you bought it.

Cover flow for the ipad

Why is no Cover flow for the iPad 2 with OS 5?

I made a newer post about this same topic (trying to be a little more strategic) and this time I included a link to a video demonstrating my point. Here's the post http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6574743#6574743.
I couldn't agree with you more on the custom folder icon issues. I'm beginning to find out what the problem is on that. I have used the newest version of Candy Bar for my Home directory icons and that works fine, but there are some folders that I want to use a different icon for and leave the rest as they are. Candy Bar can't do this for me (as it only works with the generic icons) and so I used Apple's Icon Composer application (in the Developer Tools) to make the correct icon sizes for Leopard and then saved them as .icns but then copying and pasting that on a folder would result in the default ICNS icon and not my custom icon (that was under 10.5.1). So I finally got the custom icon to appear, but it only works for sizes 128x128 and lower, even though I put a 512X512 version in there. That's why it doesn't show up in Cover Flow. For some reason, Leopard "blacks" out anything larger than 128x128 on "Cut and Paste" icons. I found that out by copying my custom icon from the Get Info panel and then opening that in Preview and it shows a black background for the larger icons instead of the alpha channel. I'm still trying to figure this out. Also, IconBuilder seems to be doing the same thing (making and ICNS file) but it seems to work better. I haven't used that since I've upgraded to Leopard but from what I've read it should work, but I don't have Photoshop right now. Well, thanks for posting and agreeing with me on the Carousel view and I hope you check out my video. Thanks.

How can I get the Cover Flow text to be in all caps

I've only had one problem with the Cover Flow application for iTunes. All of my track names, artists, and album names are in caps on my library. When I switch to the Cover Flow view some songs are displayed with all caps, while others have the song and album in caps, but the artist is in lower case.
I've gone through all of my files and all of them have been correctly entered in all caps, yet Cover Flow still does not display them correctly. I've even gone through every album, got info, and made sure everything was in all caps. Still no succcess.
Any suggestions?
How about creating an option button to control Cover Flow's functioning on the next iTunes version? That would be nice.

Thanks, jere7my.
In other words, I should always make changes to my song text with the Cover Flow view selected.
I would never have the Cover Flow view selected while importing new albums, tracks, and artwork. I switched back to it after I was done personalizing my stuff. Thats when I started to notice they were still in lower case, even though I had changed them.

How to I turn on Cover Flow in iTunes 11

I recently upgraded from iTunes 10.7 to version 11, but I cannot use it without Cover Flow. How do I turn it back on?

Apple removed Cover Flow from iTunes 11. You cannot turn it on back again.
What you can do:
Downgrade to iTunes 10.7
Leave Feedback to Apple and protest against it (so did I, too)
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How Can I Get My Cover Flow To Be In "Artist Order" Vs. "Its Own Order"

*I'm A VERYYYYY Organized Person. & I Like My Music To Be In A My Library A Certain Way. AND My iPod Is Putting The Cover Flow In... I Dont Know What Kind Of Order... I Dont Even Know If Their Is A Method To Its Madness! It Seems Like It Starts In Artist Order & Then Switches To Album Order! IDK!!!! I Have All My Music By Artist (If There Is A Feature Artist I Put That Info after The Song Name. I Dont Like Looking At 10 Different Picz of The Same Album. My Music Looks Great In iTunes. But The Cover Flow Is... Just... Just... STUPID!!! Someone Please Help???? =(*

ErikahRae wrote:
... It Seems Like It Starts In Artist Order & Then Switches To Album Order!
Yes - it does! As Meg says, the coverflow order cannot be changed (or at least, I haven't found a way) and on my Classic the albums by one artist are first and in *artist alphabetical order,* followed (at the end of the artist list) by *various artists (or compilation) albums* which are in *album title order.*
I Dont Like Looking At 10 Different Picz of The Same Album.
Almost certainly, the reason you see several pictures of the same album is because the information in the tracks is confusing the iPod. See turingtest2's links, because they should help you sort out what is wrong.
Phil
P.S. you may feel that Meg was out of order with her comments about your typing, but she is right - it is difficult to read your post and if you want help, you need to make it easy for the people reading it. It's not simply some "convention" within this forum, it's standard internet protocol. Still, you live in the free world, it's your choice.

Cover flow into album art and how to control iTunes from another app.

Hi all 2 areas of concen, one is coverflow/ album art and the other is itunes controller:
I have searched but cannot find the answer to this:
1) I have some songs with album info already, and I used iTunes to get the album art for coverflow etc. ... some songs from the same album did not have the album category filled in, I go back and fill it in: now how do I get iTunes to recognize the album art so it shows up for the newly corrected songs?
2) In coverflow, iTunes picked the wrong album cover, can I manually fix it/pick the right one?
3) will coverflow only show album art for those albums recognized by iTunes, or will it use album art that I get from other sources and add manually? And what will show up in my ipod?
and lastly
4), is there anyway to control iTunes without switching apps (if I am working in Word or safari and want to skip a song, etc)...is there an overlay controller?
TIA
Gina
new macbook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Copy the entire folder from one drive to the other, change the path that iTunes is using to access the library.

Possible to change how folders are ordered in Cover Flow?

I have a folder containing many folders that always opens in order of last modified. Is there any way I can make this folder open in name order? Obviously once the folder is open I can sort by name, but I want it to open by default in this manner.
Other folders always seem to be sorted by name.
Any help appreciated.

Once you click the Name title in the list view section of Cover Flow, it should set that folder to always open with it sorted by Name. That is, of course, if you have write access to the folder because the setting is stored in the .DS_Store file in the folder. If you can't write to that .DS_Store file, then the setting won't be remembered.

How to get rid of Cover Flow in Safari since updating to OS 10.5.8 ?

Updated to 10.5.8 and when I open Safari Bookmarks this huge Cover Flow screen comes up. I just want my listings back without this graphics stuff, Tom

Hi
Follow the suggestions outlined in this post. These suggestions lock down Top Sites, Cover Flow and Safari Caches. Apply one (or all) specific to your needs.

How do you turn off cover flow? I HATE IT!

I just purchased an iPod nano.
But this cover flow thing on the right side of the screen is driving me nuts!
I went to settings > main menu > cover flow and unchecked "cover flow". But I still have this annoying cover flow on the right side of the display.
My iPod video does not have this terrible feature. (Good but why?)
If there's no way to shut this off I'm returning it for a refund.
There has GOT to be a way to shut cover flow off.

Ziatron wrote:
Thank you to all who have tried to help.
Perhaps some additional details are in order.
I also have an iPod video. It works correctly. When I go through various menus there is no artwork floating around on the right side of the display.
If I uncheck "display album artwork" in iTunes that will probably turn off the album artwork that my iPod video shows when it's _actually playing that song._ I want to keep that ability.
What I need to turn off is the annoying graphics that takes place to the right in menus.
If my iPod video does it correctly why can't the iPod nano?
Because the iPod video does not have that feature and the iPod nano does.
The new iPod nano and the new iPod classic have a new operating system that includes the moving graphics to the right of the menus. As you have been told you cannot turn it off it is what the new menus look like, get over it.
I really don't see what the problem is anyway, it does not interfere with the operation of the menu, nor is it offensive. if you don't like it then take it back and stop whining.

Lack of UI and No Cover Flow for Videos?

Why is there no cover flow in the iPod touch/iPhone/any iPods for movies and videos? I don't even remember seeing a menu bar at the bottom of the screen to view videos in different categories.
Has anyone else noticed the lack of a good UI in the Video section of the iPod touch? I ask because this option is available in iTunes, and frankly, cover flow one of the coolest features, that is, whizzing through all your DVD covers.

Your remarks are falling on deaf ears here no one works for apple here. PLease post your comments for enhancements at the link below.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html
THese forums are for technical questions you may have with your ipod touch. Not for general discussions. product enhancements, and speculation.
GFF

No Cover flow for Search History in Safari 6.1

Just upgraded to Safari 6.1 and can't search my history using the visual (coverflow) method anymore? I use that all the time here at work. Please tell me there's a way to get it working again, because looking at a page full of URLs does NOT help!

Cover flow is gone and there is no option to turn it back on (as far as I have found). It should be an option for those of us that used it. Here may be an alternative way though to get the screenshots from your browsing history. Go to the Finder's Spotlight (upper right magnifying glass). Click on it and type your history search there. One section will include the Webpages you have visited that meet those search keywords. If you hover your pointer over a Webpage result you will get a screenshot of the page. What I am not sure of however is whether it is a cached copy (like Coverflow) or whether it is a live view of the webpage. If this a live view then someone please send a feature request to Apple to give us the option of Coverflow (even if it comes with a disclaimer that it will slow down Safari).

Feature Request: Cover Flow for Selecting Desktop Picture

Cover Flow is a great way to scan through a set of images within a defined visual real estate. It would be perfect for the Desktop System Preferences, where we users have had to suffer forever with squinting at 72x51pixel images (at 1440x900 resolution) of our desktops. It's nearly impossible at this thumbnail size to tell what image one is looking at, and selecting to view it in the preview at 128x73 pixels is only marginally better. And of course, there's no way I know of to expand the System Preferences window to expand this whole scanario. It's the year 2009 guys; please give us your great Cover Flow to help us choose our Desktop Pictures in a reasonable way.

Hi Scott,
I know this isn't the best place, but Apple doesn't make easily apparent where to submit such requests, and I know its staff do occasionally visit these boards.
As to the appropriateness of the expectation, I have to disagree. I make my living in user interface and usability, and Apple has clearly set the expectation in the user's mind that System Preferences is the primary method for setting all sorts of Finder behaviors, including screensavers and desktop pictures. I see no reason for the user to either accept a substandard main method of setting this preference or have to learn a secondary one simply to avoid the main method.
As to the System Preference not lending itself to Cover Flow, there may be some underlying technology of which I'm unaware, but interface-wise, it seems to fit right into the Preference screen:
http://www.loungelife.com/DesktopSystemPref.jpg

HT5457 How do I recover my cover flow for albums?

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