IPod photo album art test! Please read!!

Question

One day, while is was not paying attention, my one year old daughter was walking around with my iPod photo. So naturally I gently removed my most prized possession from her greasy grasp and analyzed it for damage. No damage was done, but I noticed something peculiar. The songs album art was being displayed in the large format and it was staying that way! I spent the next several hours trying to repeat the glitch and this is what I came up with:
Step 1:
First, select a song that has album art and play it like normal. While the song is playing, press and hold the select button first, and then press and hold the menu button. If the screen changed while you did this , then start over, otherwise proceed to Step 2.
Step 2:
While still holding down the select and menu buttons, let go of the select button and then release the menu button. Timing in this step is very crucial. You must let go of the select button first and the menu button immediately after. If you have done this correctly, the screen will either show the full screen album art, or go back to the previous menu. If your iPod is now in the previous menu just select the song you are playing and the album art should show up immediately.
In this mode, you can change songs or increase the volume without affecting the album art. If you would like to get out of this mode, just press select a few times and your iPod should return to its former self.
If you would like to display the album art and star rating, then follow the steps above, but begin in the position bar screen first. Here is what I mean:
progress bar<<large album art<<position bar<<Star rating<<progress bar
For those that are still lost, if you press the select button while a song is playing in iPod photo, the screen will change in the succession above.
I can reproduce these glitches without any problems. If this works for you, please let me know by email or by a reply to this post!
Akuma

Answer 1

Raymond,
The key here is not how long you would hold the buttons, but the timing involved with releasing them. Some things to remember are:
The song must have album art.
You must be in the progress bar screen. (initial screen)
Press and hold the select button first, and then press and hold the menu button.
The tricky part is releasing the select and menu buttons. The select button must be released first and then the menu immediately afterwards. I mean within a tenth of a second. (Almost as if you are releasing them at the same time!)
It does not matter at all if you hold the select button for 10 seconds before pressing the menu button, just as long as you release the menu button after the select button.
Hope this helps!
Feel free to rate the initial post if this works out for you.