Poster frame for cover flow view with safari bookmarks?

i have a friend on a pc who wanted to have his bookmarks display in a visual way so that he doesnt forget about them. so i told him to download safari for windows and use the cover flow view. he likes it, but some sites are not very recognisable by just the thumbnail of the front page. so i was wondering whether there is a way (or a workaround) to choose another image/icon for these bookmarks in the same way that it is possible to select any scene from a movie and have that be the icon/poster frame.
i hope i havent expressed this unclearly. thanks.

Since just moving all my music to a NAS I was here researching the same issue. I can see the other three (only when music is specifically selected) but not Cover Flow. I believe it has been disabled. I played around with grid view with 428 albums and iTunes for Windows loads the art fresh evertime you start it and, on the smallest art size in grid view, it took a bit of time to load all the art.
If Cover Flow needs to cache up all the art work in advance then I could see how it would easily take my setup between 45 seconds to a minute to cache them all up.
Perhaps that would feel too clunky for Apple especially if one were to aggressively swipe through a set that wasn't completely cached.

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Since just moving all my music to a NAS I was here researching the same issue. I can see the other three (only when music is specifically selected) but not Cover Flow. I believe it has been disabled. I played around with grid view with 428 albums and iTunes for Windows loads the art fresh evertime you start it and, on the smallest art size in grid view, it took a bit of time to load all the art.
If Cover Flow needs to cache up all the art work in advance then I could see how it would easily take my setup between 45 seconds to a minute to cache them all up.
Perhaps that would feel too clunky for Apple especially if one were to aggressively swipe through a set that wasn't completely cached.

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Same issue with Mac Os X.3.9.
I am running dual display. When passing cover view from main display to second it just comes back to song list view!! If I pass it half, I can keep half cover view and half song list view!! It looks this is from last update.
It does not help you, but you can feel little less alone.
Best regards,
François

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Okay. I'm still inclined to check on drivers, because your QuickTime version may have gone up a version with the recent iTunes install. (QuickTime can be sensitive to drivers ... and even though the video drivers are up to date, other driver/whatnot updates on a Dell may also help with video performance.)
The Inspiron 6400/E1505 32-bit vista page is one that i can't get a link for (i can navigate to the page, but the URL that shows up in my web browser once i've gotten there doesn't work for linking purposes).
So try heading to the XP page for that model, going up to the top of the page where it says Operating System: Windows XP Change OS, clicking Change OS, and selecting "Windows Vista 32-bit":
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Once you're at the Windows 32-bit Vista page for that model, check in particular on the following things:
Check to see if the Chipset - Driver for your Intel Mobile Chipset is up to date.
Check to see if your Dell Inspiron 6400/E1505 System BIOS is up to date.
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I just finished getting album art for my entire music collection. Now I go to the Cover Flow view or the Album view and individual songs in compilation albums each have their own album art instead of being grouped together under the same album art. For instance I have a "Buddha Bar" Album with various artists. Instead of having one image for the album, each artist has his or her own image (all the same Buddha Bar album art). So a compilation CD with various artists ends up having 15 images instead of one image in the Album art or Cover Flow view which makes it harder to look through my albums. Does anybody know if it is possible to change this?
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iTunes doesn't have the ability to do what you want, i.e. to define multiple separated values in a field and then have the item show up when looking at a selection based on each of those values. "Bob Dylan", "The Band" and "Bob Dylan & The Band" are three distinct values that can't be linked together. Sort values can change where in a list things are displayed but shouldn't be used to attempt to merge different values as results are undefined and unpredictable.
tt2

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I need the Adobe Flash Player version 11.1.102.64plug in on my MacAir to view Ustream videos. Adobe message says the version is for Intel-based Macs with Safari; also says that I "may have to temporarily disable antivirus software. is it safe to download?

Your MacBook Air is an Intel-based system. To download the current version (11.2.202.228), go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and download it from there.
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Is the cover flow view available for itunes 11? I am not able to find it.

That' really sad... Cover Flow was one good feature that I liked in iTunes. And so, I'm still sticking onto version 10.7

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There is a code inside QuickTime movies that gets executed in Cover Flow view in Leopard!!!!!!!!.
I was helping a friend installing Leopard on his machine, and after restarting, I was showing him the new options in the Finder, when a found a bunch of videos (searched on his computer with Spotlight) and switched to 'Cover Flow View', and then Safari started opening web pages from the internet (Mostly adult sites).
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I also opened the movies in TextEdit and found the following text almost at the end of all the weird symbols:
(I'm sorry but the code disappears when I publish this post).
That's one of the pages that Safari was opening.
I don't know where my friend downloaded those videos, but the potential security risk is imminent.
I had the same results even after updating to QuickTime 7.3
I can upload the videos somewhere (at least the 'clean' ones) so you can make you own tests.
Any thoughts or comments?????
Is this a known issue in QuickTime?????
P.S. Once again please excuse my English (my main language is Spanish).

If I'm understanding correctly the "Sprite" is a part of how QuickTime works. In older versions you USED to be able to attach JavaScript to a sprite and do all kinds of useful and fun things. However, some websites used JavaScript to alter themselves, so a well crafted QuickTime movie could be used to deploy code that would alter websites. As a result, a LOT of this functionality was curtailed in later versions and many cool QuickTime functions no longer work.
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http://www.makentosh.com/tipsfromtheiceberg/Blog/Entries/2006/3/7Somebody_ToldMe....html
) and others no longer work within the browser (they only work when using the QuickTime player). Give this a try. Use Safari to "Open File..." and open the .mov file. After it's open, see if it generates any other windows from there. If it doesn't, then I'd THINK it's operating as intended BUT it wouldn't hurt to send your feedback here for Apple to look into and/or fix it if necessary.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/feedback/
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"This whole thing stems from me being 41 and still bowing down to my Mother's every wish and guilt trip.
Sorry to tell you so late in your life that you only have one job when it comes to moms and grand-moms. Give them what they want!
Part of your "monicker" best describes the issue.
You can edit your published pages using hundreds of tools but the are best edited with a plain text editing app like BBEdit (any plain text editor works).
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I did it to one of my pages to add a sound file to one of my slideshow pages:
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just because others said it couldn't be done.
Darn. Now you have another mother, or worse, an in-law. Sorry.

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"This whole thing stems from me being 41 and still bowing down to my Mother's every wish and guilt trip.
Sorry to tell you so late in your life that you only have one job when it comes to moms and grand-moms. Give them what they want!
Part of your "monicker" best describes the issue.
You can edit your published pages using hundreds of tools but the are best edited with a plain text editing app like BBEdit (any plain text editor works).
You can use Safari to view your page and even "save" the source code (Command-Option-U) and then "save as". Edit this new page to make your changes and drag it back into the appropriate Web older of your iDisk (replacing the older version).
I did it to one of my pages to add a sound file to one of my slideshow pages:
http://web.mac.com/kkirkster/iWeb/Maya/Maya_files/slideshow.html
just because others said it couldn't be done.
Darn. Now you have another mother, or worse, an in-law. Sorry.

Blurry images in cover flow view

why do my tiff files (primarily) look so blurry when I switch to cover flow view on my new mac? I've seen posts about this issue as far back as 2007- has apple still not fixed this, or is it just me? As a photographer it's a major annoyance to have to zoom in on each image to get a good look at it. Little help?

I actually figured out the answer to this one myself, with the help of someone's previous post about creating new thumbnails with a little app called CocoThumbX, which can be used to strip image files of their thumbnails and create new ones. I almost gave up on it, because the new thumbnails I was generating from it didn't show up any clearer. But then I used it to remove thumbnails only, without creating new ones afterward, and the images now look as they should in cover flow. I don't know if there are any negative side effects of not having thumbnails, or even where the original thumbnails were located in the system, but wherever needed, the computer seems to be generating it's own thumbnails for the images, and they're looking good. Hope this helps.

ITunes 7.3.2: ArtWork does not match Images on Cover Flow View and iPod

Hello everyone, this is my first post, thanks in advance for any and all help.
I have loaded most of my music collection onto iTunes, and authorized it to get album artwork. It has only found about 60% of my cover art (I have a lot of international discs, etc.), and of what it does find maybe 60% is correct. So I have spent a lot of time adding artwork by either scanning in cover art or cutting and pasting from the web. I go to "Get Info" and check the artwork tab all the time to make sure that only artwork that is correct or that I have added is attached to each of my song files.
However, I have noticed that there is a significant amount of my song files that, when I use cover flow view, or when I play the songs on my video iPod, the artwork that is on the artwork pane and what appears on the cover flow view don't match. Or the artwork that is in the artwork pane (and the only artwork in the get info artwork section) and what shows up on my iPod, don't match up. It is, for an OCD completist like me, rather annoying.
As an example, I have a lot of compilation albums. I have probably 13 different albums by different artists but which all have the same name of "The Ultimate Collection". There are some tracks for each album where the artwork pane and the cover flow view artwork match, but not all of the tracks.
I selected "group compilations when browsing", but that doesn't help. I selected all the tracks from the same album and clicked yes to whether it is a compilation, and that didn't work.
Does anyone have a simple, QUICK solution for making the artwork I have put in the artwork pane override or force itself on the cover flow view? Horrible phrasing I know, but thank you in advance for your help!

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As far as I can tell, itunes 7.3 sees all music files (in your user/itunes/music folder) with the extension .mpg as quicktime movies, not mp3's and itunes won't let you add a cover to them. The problem is that songs imported as mp3's by previous versions of iTunes were all given the extension .mpg and not .mp3 (at least on my machine). I was able to fix the problem by simply changing the .mpg to .mp3 for all of my songs. As soon as I did this, the album artwork showed up again.
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Probably not an issue with my video drivers or cover art... because it was working alright for months. Was ok "yesterday".
But whenever I switch to "cover flow" view, iTunes crashes.
In fact, my iTunes crashes on opening (probably because coverflow is the default view), I removed my music library, started from scratch then... I saw the crash again on my empty library when switching cover flow view. So its not library-related.
Did a windows update corrupt something, or my iTunes settings did hara-kiri to themselves in some way?
Some hidden file or registry key I need to reset?
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Good news everyone! I got it working, but it wasn't anywhere near what I thought it would be. Thanks to everyone in this post and others I searched the past couple of weeks tracking this down.
Bottom line - while it appeared that the problem was with CoverFlow, and the message pointed to a quicktime issue, it turned out that the problem was with a bad podcast download (believe it or not).
I followed the advice of several different posts to open iTunes while holding down the SHIFT key (the OPTION key for Mac users). For iTunes 7.x, this offers a feature where the user can select a new iTunes library. I managed to open with a new library, and iTunes worked fine (just as it did under another XP account). I tried importing a few songs and used coverflow with this new library, and everything worked fine. So I shut down iTunes, reopened it and pointed it to my original iTunes library, and it crashed again!
So just following basic troubleshooting, I copied my entire iTunes\iTunes Music and iTunes\Arwork folder to the new library I'd created earlier (not the XML or ITL file), then restarted iTunes and it FAILED AGAIN. This told me that there was a problem with some file in one of these folders I copied over. I removed the Artwork folder, and it still failed. When I removed the iTunes Music folder, iTunes opened fine again.
Going deeper, I just copied over a few folders from iTunes Music into my new library, and it opened fine. Through some trial and error, I found that the crashing came back when I copied over the \iTunes\iTunes Music\Downloads\. This folder had 4 subfolders with names of some podcasts, each with *.tmp extensions. When I purged these *.tmp folders, iTunes worked just fine!!
While I haven't been able to find confirmation, it is my assumption here that when iTunes is downloading podcasts, it first downloads them to the \iTunes\iTunes Music\Downloads\ folder, and then moves them to the iTunes\iTunes Music\Podcasts\ folder when the download is complete. Since iTunes kept crashing until removed the *.tmp folders, it appears that iTunes reads the \iTunes\iTunes Music\Downloads\ folder and tries to reprocess any content still in there as part of it's startup housekeeping, and this bad download kept crashing it until I purged it. Once iTunes was able to open without crashing, coverflow continued to work fine, and I could sync/download more podcasts without trouble.
So, if this helps anyone, I'm glad to hear it. Just make sure your \iTunes\iTunes Music\Downloads\ *.tmp files are cleared out if you get quicktime.qt error messages when iTunes crashes when opened.

Cover Flow View: Changes in "Information" not updated in Cover Flow

Hi
When changing text in "Information" like name of the artist or the album or just using a big letter instead of a small letter it doesn't seem to be updated in Cover Flow View. For example: I changed the name of the album of "The division bell" to "The Division Bell" under Information as usual but in the Cover Flow it still appears as "The division bell".
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