Speed up album art generation in coverflow...

Is there any way to speed up album art generation when you use coverflow on an ipod classic?... it seems to take forever on mine and i don't know if it is on everyone else's or just mine.

No. It's just a function of how quickly the iPod can read the info from the hard drive and how much can be stored in the cache. My experience has been if you scroll quickly, once you get 20 or 30 albums down, it reverts to place-holders until you stop and let it "catch up". Oh, and if you are listening to music while scrolling through coverflow, it's even slower (since the iPod is caching music as well).

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This happens on my 80gb iPod only. Not on iTunes. iTunes shows all the album art in the coverflow in alphabetical order like its suppose to be. Albums such as: Deftones - "self titled", The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute, Kanye West - Graduation, Placebo - Meds, Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want To Be. Among around 15 others.
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sorry for the double post. XD
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iTunes gets those tags from the Gracenote database. Whoever entered the info, set them as compilations.
Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together?
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468

Album Art Resizing Itself In Coverflow

The majority of my album art is 600x600, but some is rectangular (e.g., 600 wide x 540 tall). This afternoon, I noticed that some, but not all, of this rectangular artwork is being resized when iTunes is in coverflow view: the height of some of the album covers that appear in coverflow are being stretched so that they appear as square rather than rectangular.
The same art is also distorted when I view art in the artwork column and in grid view.
However, the proportions of the affected artwork is correct when viewed with
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• on my second generation iPod nano
• on my iPhone 3G's iPod app (in coverflow and otherwise)
• in the Remote app
• and, if I open one of the album covers and view it in its own window, it appears in the correct dimensions.
The artwork also looks correct in the summary tab and the artwork tab when I "Get Info." If I copy one of the affected album covers and open it with Preview, its dimensions will be correct.
I can discern no pattern as to which images are being resized. Some art images I have scanned myself and some I have downloaded.
I have no idea what might have triggered this.
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This is an addendum to my original post, including a cumbersome "fix," and a working hypothesis as to the root of the problem.
(In my original post, I had neglected to update my signature to note that my current OS is 10.6.4.)
Last night, I extracted the artwork of the nonstandard covers (I'll call "standard" artwork that which is 600x600, as well as other art of that 1:1 ratio).
Assuming that the width of all the nonstandard artwork was 600 pixels, the affected artwork was that which was 540 high and higher. Nonstandard artwork that still appears normally is 539 and shorter. The 600/540+ (bad) vs. 600/539- (good) appears to be a ratio that affects artwork of smaller sizes as well. For example, a file that was 467 pixels in width that was "too high" (420) would also be affected. (I have some artwork that is smaller than 600 pixels, but none is larger, so while I assume larger images will be affected, I don't know for certain.)
When I extracted a 600x540 file and resized (or rescaled) it to 600x539 and then embedded the new art, coverflow displayed the artwork correctly. I have done this for all the affected artwork and this has "fixed" the problem.
(I've read that a number of people are currently having problems adding artwork so, for the record, I copy an image open in Preview and, then, in iTunes, I "get info" for the files to which I want to add artwork and then paste the artwork into the artwork box seen in the "Multiple Item Information" window.)
However, this only fixed the problem for view in coverflow. It did not fix the grid view. Those files were still being stretched until I "jiggled" the size of album covers in grid view. I slid the sizing bar back and forth, to make the albums first larger and then smaller, and then I eased the size back to its original position (in my case, as large as the grid view will render four albums in one row before they become three to a row). So, no kidding, once I shook iTunes, grid view worked again.
Armed with this information, I sat down with a similar system (my wife's), another 13" Macbook running 10.6.4 and iTunes 9.2.1, and I attempted to replicate the problem; her iTunes library is unique but contains some of the same music files with the same artwork that had appeared distorted on my system. Two careful examinations of the music library had not shown any distortion to this system's extant artwork but, when I added nonstandard artwork of the problematic ratio (and files that had said artwork) I saw the same problem on my wife's computer that I seen on mine.
I can offer the following additional information:
12 May 2010 is the last known date on which I embedded a file with "problematic" artwork that displayed said artwork properly in coverflow.
On 26 July, I extracted a nonstandard artwork image, touched it up, and embedded that "airbrushed" art into the music files. This is the album cover that I first noticed to be stretched. However, while I noticed it yesterday afternoon, I do not recall noticing it on the morning of the 26th, when the new artwork was added. (And this does not necessarily mean anything; I may have been inattentive.)
While wrangling with that album cover yeterday and trying to get it to display properly, I did not notice a problem with any other album cover (but I did not look methodically). After wrestling with that album and failing, I quit iTunes, tossed the album art cache in the trash, and rebuilt. It was at that point at which I noticed distorted artwork en masse.
I am open to other ideas, but my working hypothesis is that, at some point in time, within the last week or the past two months, iTunes (by which I mean the most current version of iTunes on a Macbook running the most current version of Snow Leopard) has become incapable of caching these nonstandard images. The extant thumbnails of the "problem covers" were fine, but once I tossed them into the trash and iTunes needed to reconstruct them, mayhem ensued.
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Hi.
I had the same problem. The good news is that you can fix it. The bad news is that it may take you quite a bit of time.
The problem is that the metadata is inconsistent in some of your albums. Take a look at the metadata for the albums you are having problems with and make sure that all the tags are consistent.
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Here's what you do.
(1) List all the albums with messed up artwork and the albums that the wrong artwork is from.
(2) In iTunes, check all the songs on each album to make sure that the metadata is consistent.
(3) Erase the music from the iPod Touch (sync to a blank playlist).
(4) Resync the music to the iPod Touch.
If you find further problems, then just repeat this process. It took me three goes to fix everything on my 16 gig touch.

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I also own an ipod touch 8gb which I am not willing to try updating album art to in case the same thing happens, but all art on there is working ok. but I do know same albums and cover art have been use for both devices.
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Robby L wrote:
When in coverflow, the album art doesn't appear for a specific album instead it shows a video preview.
Example :
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4619/16016687.jpg
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In the MUSIC LIBRARY (left handside of the Itunes window). Left click once the first song for the particular album in question, next right click it, choose from the menu GET INFO, on the window that has appeared click the ARTWORK tab, next click the ADD tab and locate the picture you have saved on the PC for that particular album (you need to have downloaded this already from a covers website or scanned it and saved it).
Once you have added it and it appears in the window that I have mentioned above, you will then need to right click on the picture and choose copy.
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I don't know what else I can do at this point, any suggestions?

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I was just wondering how and if Album art is displayed on the 3G?
I downloaded the same tunes that display album art on my Nano... but they don't seem to display on the 3G. Do I have to turn this feature on?
When playing tunes on the iPhone what happens when a call is made or received?
Thanks

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Good tip,
Essentially the cover art uses the same items as playing video.
This is a good article for generally troubleshooting, and includes updating drivers as a good step:
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