In album view automatically display current song

itunes 11.0.5.5
in album view as songs are shuffled, is there a way you can configure so that as the next song is played, the album view is updated to display the current song being played?
right now, it does not update at it moves to play the next in the shuffle queue.

Thanks for you help turingtest2.
I have searced for that file and I get it twice in the same folder. one of the files has a date stamp appended to it 2013-01-25 (todays date).
I copied both files to another folder and moved the album artwork folder to the same folder.
I then restarted itunes. I did not have to request any artwork and the original artwork was still there (incorrectly). It did not seem like anything was downloaded as itunes opened quick and when i selected album view it went to there without delay automatically with the artwork there.
The album artwork folder was recreated in the itunes folder.
I did a search for the *.itc files and it seems the old moved album artwork folder contained may more *.itc files than were recreated in "recreated" album artwork folder. Not sure if that means anything.
Hmmm.

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