ITunes 9.2 blurry album art in Coverflow

I've noticed that performance when using both Coverflow and grid view has improved, however this is at the expense of blurry album art.
Normally art downloaded from the iTunes store is high quality. When you are in cover-flow it is difficult to discern the quality, however go to full screen and you can clearly see the detail in the artwork. However now, when going full screen in cover-flow, all the album artwork has a blurry look.
To compare how full screen album art should look, view the "album art viewer" in the lower left hand corner of iTunes. Click the artwork and it will display at it's original size, compare this image to the artworked viewed in Coverflow Full-Screen. There is a noticible difference in sharpness.
Normally this "blurry effect" only occurs for artwork applied manually via drag and drop and viewed full screen in coverflow mode. It has now been applied to all artwork.
What is the point of high quality album art if it can't be viewed as originally intended? Performance increases are nice, but I preferred the previous coverflow experience even at the expense of a little performance.
Message was edited by: darkspark88

I haven't had this issue. I'd download a program such as Media Monkey to see what the resolution of artwork is. Generally an image that is 600X600 will be of excellent quality in iTunes. Other than that, it could be a rare bug.
Have you tried removing the artwork from one song/audiobook and right clicking on it and choose "Get album artwork" to see if that resolves the issue?

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