Interesting bug in iTunes 7.0

I installed iTunes 7.0 (70) last night as soon as it became available.
Within 2 minutes I noticed this interesting 'feature' (lets call it a, err, bug).
Open iTunes, select a playlist or just 'library' and start some tune playing.
Now turn on the nice new 'Cover Browser' view.
Now turn on the Visualizer but not in full screen mode.
(so far so good)
Now, got to the View menu and select Visualizer / Options
Untick 'Use OpenGL'
Now the cover browser breaks through the visuals - and guess what? It does the same thing on the windows version.
I can't believe this would be a 'feature' since ...
i. The option to turn it on is called 'Use OpenGL' on Mac and 'Use DirectX' on windows.
ii. It's ugly and not interactive.
I think it's just a z-order problem with QT content or similar.

This bug has been there for a long time.
You can work around it by making 'sub-playlists' and using them as one of the criteria in your 'main' playlist.
For example, I usually exclude audiobooks, christmas music, spoken word, and children's music genres from my playlists. So I made a playlist that includes all of those. and called it 'misc'. Then, in the other playlists I can simple add a criteria that says 'is not' in playlist 'misc'.
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1. Importing CDs
If you import a CD, you must wait for complete import to finish in hopes that all songs will populate successfully with cover art. Even here, success is random.
If you request cover art during the import, there are mixed results.
iTunes should be smart enough to detect if any album exists with partial cover art in the library database, then those tracks with missing cover art will be automatically detected and updated.
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a. iTunes Store may just not have cover art for some (older) albums
b. iTunes Store does find the cover art, but it is not applied to *all tracks* on the album
The workarounds bring mixed results.
I have resorted to the "Get Info" approach and pasted cover art to random album tracks where cover art was only partly applied by iTunes.
In other cases, I scanned in the CD cover and applied it to albums where iTunes found no cover art. I assumed this would be a one-time fix as I expected some minimal tweaking would be involved in managing cover art.
No such luck! Here is why iTunes cover art represents a MAJOR bug in version 7.x.x
Day 1: I spend many hours tweaking and fine-tuning the cover art, assuming iTunes will "save" all my work. I browse different albums/tracks and everything looks great!
Day 2: Looks like iTunes only "saved" some of this effort. Sure enough, certain complete albums and random tracks from other albums now show NO cover art! How frustrating!
* * * Here is what is MORE DISTURBING about this Cover Art bug! * * *
I resort to thinking about more workarounds, and here are the results:
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But all is not what it appears. The trick of adding missing cover art twice, in the hopes that an album and/or certain random album tracks might adopting the cover art you are trying to assign will produce the following:
IT ACTUALLY AFFECTS THE AUDIO TRACK!!!!
Multiple attempts to add/fix cover art will ADD TO TRACK DURATION, such that when you play a track, the lead-in portion of the lyrics (say first 10 secs or so) will REPEAT in as many times as you tried to add the cover art!!!!
Thinking this might be a corrupt library database, I even deleted the database, started over, and while adding missing cover art, was able to reproduce the lyrics repeating on those tracks where the cover art was added (pasted) twice. You can HEAR and see the increased track duration in iTunes 7.x.x
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Ok, found another app that seems to be stuck half in "dark grey" and half in "light grey" mode.
This time it's a piece of shareware I downloaded from apple.com for managing finances.
http://homepage.mac.com/owengerrard/leopard/personal-finance.png
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I think i figured out a bug in iTunes (10).
Sometimes, when i select a file from library and press cmd+backspace to delete a file from disk to put it in trash, iTunes won't put the selected file into the Trash. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesnt. Its going to be removed in the Library but its still on Filesystem so i can add it once again, and try it 2-3 times till its finally gets deleted.
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Soo, maybe it isnt possible bug, but the way Apple have changed iTunes when going to v11. Stooopid
Anyway, found this link about downgrading to an earlier version. I've just completed it and found one or two "errors" in the method, which I'll detail below
http://www.emacconsulting.com/apple/itunes/downgrade-itunes-11-to-itunes-10-7/
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