Problem with Cover Flow View

Not sure if anyone else is having this problem and I think it was from when there were some Vista updates this morning. Firstly my Podcasts wouldn't play but thats now been sorted by a FAQ but the cover flow view is all messed up and I can't seem to sort it. The covers are there and appear for a couple of seconds and then go green/black and white with lines through them. In Album view, the covers are fine but just the cover flow (which is the one I love to use! Anyone got any suggestions or having the same problem?

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":
Inspiron 6400/E1505 (XP)
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.
After you've applied any updates (if any are applicable), do you have any better luck with the Cover Flow view?

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I am having problems with cover flow on my i phone when i change to landscape and flick through covers it is very unstabale and jerky and eventually crashes out.

i am having problems with cover flow on my i phone 4s 32gb when i change to landscape and flick through the album covers it becomes very jerky and unstable and eventually crashes out.

A PC can have more issues connecting than a Mac.
But it really should not matter.. so just try it in situ.. press and hold the reset.. once it starts up, it will return to default IP, 10.0.1.1 the PC should then be able to find it via the airport utility.
If not drag it over to the Mac and plug in there by ethernet.. or since it is a laptop, really should not be that difficult to drag the Laptop and plug it into the TC.
Important thing is to get access to the TC.
The Mac if it is running lion, then you MUST download and install 5.6 airport utility to do anything useful.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482

Problem w/ cover flow view

To begin I'd like to say I'm not new to message boards and even a forum moderator for the company Streetglow. I've searched for hours trying to figure out my cover flow problem and I just can't get it to organize the way I like. I've had a few problems with itunes in the past but a store rep fixed them within minutes. This is my first big problem.
A few days ago I moved my entire library (I only have music files) to my external HD. The move went flawlessly and itunes even deleted itself in my "My Music" folder. Weird but everything was fine and I checked a song's location and saw that the location lead to my external. This is where the problem starts.
Yesterday, I opened itunes and my entire library is empty. It's as if I just installed itunes on my computer.
So, I re-imported all my files again and went to my cover flow view and I have multiple album art covers for each song. But, if I go to the grid view, its exactly how I want it. Artist....Album...in ascending order. But if I switch to cover flow, I have close to 500 album art covers.
Prior to this, every time I imported a CD, I filled out the info entirely. Kept the artist, and album artist the same. Cover flow view was perfect before this incident.
Now, I have to use the grid view because it's the way I'd like but I would like to use the cover flow.
Any ideas?

The albums will only stay grouped together when sort as *Album, Album by Artist* or *Album by Year*. Sort on Track title or Track No. and the order of covers will be pretty random. Sorting as Album by Artist groups all albums by the same alphbetically which tends to work for most people. What cues are your browsing for? Artwork, Album title, Artist, Track Name. You can use the search box to type in part of a track name if you're trying to find something specific. If you're just flicking through for something to take your fancy you might find grid mode more useful.
tt2

Problem with Cover flow

often times when I have iTunes open in cover flow view and switch to another window using Exposé cover flow goes all whack (see photo). Has anybody else had this problem? What can I do about it?
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/8260/picture1lk8.png

Hi,
Your picture appears to be of a Mac desktop. You might want to post your problem on the forum that is meant for mac users. This one is for windows users. I'm surprised by your problem. I have noticed a lot of problems with the way itunes uses video refreshing, but I assumed the problems were because apple didn't want its windows version to work too well. It is the slowest and most frustrating application on my machine, but I assumed it would work pretty well on a mac. Anyways, good luck.

Problem with Cover Flow full screen view in 10.6

I like to use the Cover Flow full screen view in iTunes on my monitor. Since upgrading to iTunes 10.6 Cover Flow full screen view will revert to Cover Flow standard view between each song. This did not occur with any previous version of iTunes. Is there a setting that will prevent Cover Flow automatically switching back to standard view from full screen view?

I guess I am the only one experiencing this issue of Cover Flow full screen view collapsing to standard view when a song within an album or playlist changes. This began in 10.6 and has continued in 10.6.1. At least I have not experienced the more serious issues others have with 10.6.

Problem with Cover-Flow display

Hello!
Whenever I play compilations Cover-Flow doesn´t display "Interpret" in the third column but "Album-Interpret" (screenshot 1). However, I set the "Album-Interpret" Tag to the whole compilation´s tite so that Itunes displays all tracks in one Block (screenshot 2).
The Problem is that now the artist´s name is not displayed i this view.
Does anybody have an idea how to solve this?
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2

hey i had this problem too its because sum times the artist have Feat. artist
For Example:: kanye west Feat. common
jus move the common to the song name it shud work jus fine

Problems with "Cover flow" mode

I read some posts about wrong order of songs or pictures in cover flow mode, but I think the problem is much more serious:
I wanted to delete the junk pictures that I downloaded from my iPhone and I decided to do that in the cover flow mode because I thought it was the most convenient view mode.
I browsed the pictures and when I decided I wanted to delete one I would push Command+Delete. I noticed that the picture I was trying to delete would stay there. I tried again and again and it wouldn't go away. I tried that multiple times on multiple files and eventually I noticed that the finder was actually deleting files, but unfortunately not the highlighted ones. I found multiple pictures in the trash that I didn't want to delete.
Anybody has the same experience? Any comment? Haven't Apple geniuses noticed that yet?

Hi, Hack2er.
Let us know if this article in the Apple Knowledge Base relates to your problem.

Problems with Cover Flow and Artwork.

Hey,
this is my first time having iTunes or iPhone/iPod, so I have tons of albums at home. It's no problem to get the music on the phone, but
1. There is no artwork although all albums are original.
2. All the songs show up single in CoverFlow. Instead of tapping one album and having the songs appear, they all appear in CoverFlow.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

Righty, I'll start with the weird coverflow. Go into itunes and have a look at the song and album titles for your songs. For each album, is each song's album title and artist title the same? If not, select all of the offending songs, right / shift click, select 'get info' and change the album / artist title. This should work
Now, whilst you have the 'get info' window open, select 'Artwork', go to amazon and find the album you are looking at. Grab the album cover and drag to your desktop. Now, drag to the image to the artwork window and you should be all set!

Problems with Cover Flow

So I've just got my new iPod Classic and put on all my music, whilst scrolling through the artwork and selecting an artists 'Greatest Hits' album like usual it brings up all the tracks in a list but I noticed it brings up all other songs from other artists with albums titled 'Greatest Hits'.
I went through and checked on other artists where album titles match and it does the same thing. Does anyone know how to resolve this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Until Apple fixes this, the only way I can think of is to rename the albums from "Greatest Hits" to "<Artist's name> Greatest Hits". Wish I had a better solution. You should report this by completing Apple's Feedback Form HERE.

Multiple Albums in Cover Flow View

I am running iTunes 7.3.2, and I am experiencing a strange "problem" with Cover Flow View.
A number of albums that I have downloaded from the iTunes store show up with 2 albums in Cover Flow View. In fact, it always appears to be 1 Album Cover for Track 1 of the Album and a 2nd Album Cover for the remaining tracks.
They are not compilations, and I have checked that the Album, Artist and Album Artist are all the same. In addition, it is only happening with 1 artist: Ali Farka Touré. All three albums: Niafunké, The Source and Talking Timbuktu do the exact same thing. This is true no matter what sorting I use, or even if I use search to limit the list to 1 album.

Mark Verschell wrote:
Well, solved this one myself. First let me add that in Album View, it showed up as 2 albums also (track 1 in one album, tracks 2..n in a second album)
I went back and looked carefully and the ONLY difference in these albums was that the Artist Name (and in one case, also the Album) contained an accented e (é).
I selected all the tracks from an Album, did a Get Info, changed the é to an e in the Artist and Album Artist fields - and poof (or poofé) - one album. Then, I selected them all again, and changed the e BACK to an é - and it stayed in one album.
That sounds to me like Cover Flow somehow registered the "é" in most tracks but thought it was an "e" in some. The same thing happens with capitalization — if you change "Rage Against the Machine" to "Rage Against The Machine", most of iTunes will see the change immediately, but Cover Flow will sometimes continue to display the lower-case "the" until you whack it a few times. Since a difference in capitalization (or accenting) of a single letter will make two fields non-matching in iTunes's eyes, that could cause Cover Flow to split an album into "Rage Against the Machine" and "Rage Against The Machine" tracks.
I have lots of accented letters in my library, and haven't seen this splitting behavior; I think the problem stems from different parts of iTunes having different rules for calling two fields identical.

Cover flow view problem

I'm having an issue with cover flow view of images in OS 10.6.8
Whenever a jpeg or tiff file is edited in Photoshop (image size not changed) the preview of that picture in cover flow view
becomes smaller, pixelated and it never clears up.
Cover flow displays Raw camera files and unedited jpegs & tiffs correctly, only when an image is edited does it's preview in
cover flow become distorted.
I really like to use cover flow to browse through photos quickly but this issue is bugging me.
I've been on Photoshop forums and they say it's an Apple issue. So I don't know where the problem is.
Any help would be appreciated.

I know this paste below doesn't directly respond to your issue, but the steps below will restore OS X with a new copy and possibily clear up your issue.
There was a recent security update and it's doing very strange things, in your case it will restore a new OS X copy.
Security Update 2012-001 Bricks Rosetta programs
I've outlined the restore proceedure here, it covers a lot of bases and explains what is going to occur so please don't be intimidated it's a LOT easier that it appears.
Take your time and comprehend the steps involved and you'll be backup up like before in short order.
Restore method.
#1 Backup your personal data off the machine.
Backup files off the computer (not to TimeMachine). If you don't have a external drive, get one and connect to the USB/Firewire port and simply drag and drop copy your User folder to the external drive, it will copy all your files. It's best to have two backups of your data off the machine when trying to restore.
Disconnect all drives now to prevent any mistakes from occuring.
#2 Try Restoring from a TimeMachine or hold option bootable clone
If you have TimeMachine drive, or a hold the option key bootable clone use that to erase and restore from before the Security Update occured.
Obviously if you didn't make a recent backup before the update, your going to have to skip to Step #3.
Note: A TM restore can take a awfully long time, a clone restore takes under 2 hours in most cases.
If you don't know how to restore from TM drive
http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html
#3 Reinstall OS X 10.6 from disk
If no recent TM or bootable clone then:
Get out your 10.6 install disk and make sure it's clean and polished (very soft cloth and a bit of rubbing alcohol, no scratches) If your disk is borked, you'll have to order a new one from Apple with your serial number.
Hold c boot off the 10.6 disk (wired keyboard, internal optical drive), use Disk Utility First Aid to >Repair Disk and Permissions (do not format or erase!!), Quit DU and simply re-install 10.6.
Note: Simply reinstalling 10.6 version from disk (without erasing the drive) only replaces 10.6.8 with 10.6.x and bundled Apple programs, won't touch your files (backup anyway) or most programs, unless they installed a kext file into OS X itself. (only a few on average do this)
Note: If Disk Uitlity can't repair the drive, then come back to seek further assistance and make sure you have a copy of your data off the machine.
#4 Update to 10.6.8 without Security Update 2012-001
Reboot and log in, update to 10.6.8 via Software Update, but EXCLUDE THE Security Update 2012-001 by checkinig the details and unchecking the blue check box.
#5 Reinstall any non-working third party programs
When you reboot, make sure to reinstall any programs that require kext files installed into OS X, you'll know, they won't work when you launch them or hang for some reason.
If for some freakish reason you get gray screen at any time when booting (possible it might occur when you reinstall older programs), hold the shift key down while booting (Safe Mode, disables kext files) and update your installed third party software so it's compatible with 10.6.8.
https://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
Note: For most users likley Step #3 and #4 is likley all that is needed to be done.
That's it really.
Further Reading:
Learn how to have a OS X drive restore ability using TimeMachine or cloning software
Learn how to clone your entire OS X boot here
http://www.bombich.com/get_ready_for_lion.html
TimeMachine help here
http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html
Make copies of your original Snow Leopard
http://www.walterjessen.com/make-a-bootable-backup-snow-leopard-install-disc/
Learn how to make a bootable SL USB thumb drive
http://www.maciverse.com/install-os-x-snow-leopard-from-usb-flash-drive.html
Deciding on upgrading to Lion?
Learn which programs ARE NOT compatible/updated for Lion, Rosetta programs will not run on Lion.
http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
Unverified hacks
Note: You may see a "hack" for this issue floating around, it has had mixed results as people's software is different.
You may want to try it, but it's at your own risk. It has worked fast for some and not at all for others, hopefully over time it will work for all.
The above methods I outline are Apple approved restore methods + based upon experience here and not a quick fix, but are sure to work as Apple recommends such steps themselves.
If at any time you feel this is beyond your capability, please seek local Mac/PC professional assistance before you lose your data.
In fact my steps above are very simple, you might want to have a family member or friend perfrom the proceedure in about a hour or two.
If you don't have any backup, please maintain at least a TM drive, just hook up a new blank external drive and TM will ask you to make a backup, takes some time so let it work.
If your a bit more skilled, a option bootable clone is much superior than TM drive.
Good Luck

Cover Flow view bug

Is there a better place than this to submit bug reports to Apple?
Problem: Multiple albums named the same (i.e. Greatest Hits) by different artists have problems in Cover Flow view. The albums have separate cover art, but when selecting the album to look at songs in the album, all songs on every album named the same show up. This can't be what Apple had in mind, since in iTunes, the Cover Flow view sort default is "Album by Artist", and it's not a problem seeing other artists albums named the same. This is also a problem in Album view, where there is only one entry for all albums named the same (i.e. Greatest Hits).
Solution? Add secondary search criteria (artist) for both Cover Flow and Album views. This way, each album is a separate entry (album view) and has only the correct songs (cover flow view).
Love the Nano 3rd gen, but this bug is very blatant and should have been fixed prior to release. Apple, please fix it. I don't want to have to rename all my albums "xxxxxxx's Greatest Hits"!

Quick follow up. Is there a setting in the Nano to fix this (sort by option)?

I have a tiny problem that is driving me mad. When I am playing an album in iTunes using cover flow view (with the playlist beneath the artwork picture) the picture is exactly above the album title. All is symmetrical. When I switch to full screen displa

I have a tiny problem that is driving me mad. When I am playing an album in iTunes using cover flow view (with the playlist beneath the artwork picture) the picture is exactly above the album title. All is symmetrical. When I switch to full screen display, the artwork moves a couple of inches to the left and the display is therefore asymmetrical. Why and how do I correct it? It would drive you mad to.
Thanks for any help,
Graham

I was having the same problem, but tried the "Top Button + Home Button" reset and that did work for me. My unofficial guess is that perhaps RAM caches get filled through daily use of various apps leaving no memory for cover flow. Resetting the phone on the phone itself seems to reset that RAM. I can't say it's a cure-all, but it solved my issue. Hope this helps.

Cover Flow View messed up with latest update

I was wondering if with the latest update anyone has had any problems with the cover flow view? It will not show anything when in that view (other 2 work fine). I have the apple software updater that updated to the latest version 7.1.1 and thats when the problem started.. I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling with the same version downloaded from apples website - same thing. I ended up having to find a older version online 7.0.2 and it now works. So i tried to go back to the newer version and get the same thing. So now I am forced to run on 7.0.2 and can not use the Cover Flow Full Screen View..
Thanks for any help..
Chris

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

Problem deleting items in cover flow view

Hi,
I recently upgraded to a new MacBook Pro with running Leopard and I thought that viewing directories using "cover flow" view in the finder would be a great new way to quickly browse through folders containing many pictures and deciding what to keep and what to get rid of. However, I've run into a problem. When I delete an item in the directory, sometimes the highlight bar automatically highlights the next item in the list (what I want it to do), and sometimes it just disappears so that when I press the down arrow, rather than just jumping to the next picture in the folder after the one I just deleted, it jumps all the way back to the first picture in the folder. As you can imagine, this can be pretty annoying when trying to sort through a folder of over 600 photos. I can't figure out why deleting an item sometimes selects the next item and sometimes deselects all items, but I would like to find a way to fix this so I can sort through my photos with ease. Thanks for any info.
-Josh

Sounds like a bug. Send Feedback or send bug reports and enhancement requests to Apple via its Bug Reporter system. Join the Apple Developer Connection (ADC)—it's free and available for all Mac users and gets you a look at some development software. Since you already have an Apple username/ID, use that. Once a member, go to Apple BugReporter and file your bug report/enhancement request. The nice thing with this procedure is that you get a response and a follow-up number; thus, starting a dialog with engineering.

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