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When I first add a song to a library, the entire song title doesn't always get in, normally because it's too long, is there a way to remove the limit in getting a song title from a new song? For example, if it is a remix it might go "Song title (rmx" even though stuff goes after rmx.
For a few albums, I'll edit the tag information but after playing it, the tags reset to their original. For example, the album name would originally start as "Album name Disc 1", I would delete the Disc 1 part but then if I played it it would go back to including Disc 1.
Add Folder to Library:
How far in a series of subfolders/nested folders does it go though when I add a main folder? Also how many folders within the main folder does it check? I know it doesn't check through too many. It is a pain to add album folders manually and I'm not just going to take all my music and put them in one folder instead of having them nicely organized.
Cover Flow:
ITunes crashes if I use this view, mainly because I don't think it likes to do OpenGL or 3D (some games it can handle, some it can't but always needs low settings) even if it should. Yes I've got the most recent driver. Its an Nvidia FX5600. I don't care too much about this because its only a problem I can fix.

Okay well the answer to Add Folder not adding all folders is dragging the folder into the library on Itunes after deleting all the entries. I've had to add my library back a few times, especially when I have to rename file names or move folders into more appropriate locations.

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Why do my image previews in cover flow folder view option look terrible?

Recently upgraded to OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard and have noticed that image previews look terrible in the cover flow folder view option - work with image files numbering in the thousands and really need this option to work - dosen't seem to matter how long I give the machine to process the preview and can find no consistency in the file type or format the machine seems to have trouble with

~/Library/Caches. Quit all applications then delete this folder. If a normal delete doesn't work, do a secure delete (Finder > Secure empty trash {this will take longer})

Custom Folder Icons won't display in Cover Flow

When I paste a PNG or PICT or JPG file on the highlighted folder image in the Get Info window, the new icon for the folder will appear everywhere - icon view - list view - column view - except Cover Flow - What gives?

I use a different method to get custom icons on my folders, and they are displaying correctly in Cover Flow. Tried what I presume you are doing: open graphic file in Preview, select Copy, go to GetInfo window of the folder and paste. That folder does not show up in Cover Flow AT ALL, just a blank space. Weird. Definitely a bug.
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Expand folder in cover flow using keyboard

When navigating folders and files in List View, I can use up/down to move through the list, and left/right to expand/collapse folders. However, in Cover Flow View, the left/right arrow keys just do the same as up/down.
How can I collapse/expand a folder using the keyboard when using Cover Flow?
Many thanks,
Matt

Cmd+arrow keys should open/close the disclosure triangles of folders in "CoverFlow" view.
Also note that Apple finally fixed the Option+arrow key behaviour so we have System 7 functionality back, where all nested folders can be expanded at once.

Bug: My Finder folder has 4 items but Cover Flow is showing 5.

My Finder folder has 4 items but Cover Flow is showing 5.
I can even click on the erroneous item in cover flow, but it doesn't atually exist.
Mavericks, everything is updated.
Sure, rebooting or restarting Finder might fix it, but this yet another bug with Finder I have found.

Hello,
Can you count the beeps or flashes?
1 beep = no RAM installed
2 beeps = incompatible RAM types
3 beeps = no good banks
4 beeps = no good boot images in the boot ROM (and/or bad sys config block)
5 beeps = processor is not usable
In addition to the beeps, on some computers the power LED will flash a corresponding number of times plus one. The LED will repeat the sequence after approximately a 5-second pause. The tones are only played once.
Note: In this case, a flash is considered to be 1/4 second or 250 ms or greater in length.
Did you get any of the Install Discs with the Macs?
On the one with no Utilities, might try reapplying the big combo update...
The combo update for PowerPC-based Macs...
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx10411comboupdateppc.html
The combo update for Intel-based Macs...
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx10411comboupdateintel.html

Folder or File "Ghost" remains in Cover Flow once Deleted

Has this happened to anyone else?
This happens when deleting Files or Folders with the Cover Flow view.
Side Note: This of course goes away once you click on another area of Finder,
like say going from Documents to Downloads then back to Documents.
This is just an annoyance but was wondering :-)

Yeah this is annoying... Yet another flaw in Mavericks. You have to refresh the view by switching to the list view or something else, THEN IT UPDATES the file listing.
Oh yeah and how about fixing the file tag colors so they HIGHLIGHT across the entire row as opposed to just a DOT?!
It boggles the mind how this Mavericks got out the door with all the problems it has... No way Jobs would stand for this garbage!

Why not to add a keyboard inside the cover flow ?

A lot of people prefer to use a classic bluetooth keyboard to write long text with their iPad2, the cover flow can integrate a flexible keyboard ?
Are you a lot to think like that ?
pdvx from belgium

A lot of people prefer to use a classic bluetooth keyboard to write long text with their iPad2, the cover flow can integrate a flexible keyboard ?
Are you a lot to think like that ?
pdvx from belgium

Cover flow displays the same two pieces of artwork for all videos.

I've been adding a collection of tv series I have on DVD to iTunes 9.1.1, it all worked fine initially, I opened each video up of a series of tv programs and used the "Set Poster Frame" option to capture a frame of the program to use as the artwork for that program.
I normally have the programs sorted by what tv program they belong to, so Cover flow only displays the first episode of a series' artwork. I'm not sure why though but something I did yesterday appears to have caused cover flow to blow a fuse.
If I chose to sort by name before, cover flow would display all the artwork for each episode, and it showed all the different artworks correctly. Now though after some fiddling I did which I cannot seem to recount my steps back to, it only displays the same two pieces of artwork from two particular episodes for all the videos when it is sorted via name:
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/3052/tvprogcoverflow.png
I've tried removing all the artwork, but there doesn't seem to be an option to delete the poster frame and the poster frame artwork doesn't show up under the artwork tab for the individual videos so I can't delete anything from there. If I select all the videos and then right click and get info, then select the artwork check box and click OK it seemingly deletes all the artwork... Then replaces it again with the exact same artwork!
Although cover flow shows each video has having the same artwork if I Get Info each video it clearly shows it having the correct artwork so why cover flow is messing around like this I don't know.
I've tried deleting the album artwork cache in the itunes folder, didn't work. I even tried deleting my entire itunes folder which I have separate from my library and the hidden prefs file in my actual library, but that didn't work either.
Interestingly enough, if I re-add all the videos they automatically get listed as films and go under the film tab. When looking at them under their cover flow correctly shows every episode with the right artwork:
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8234/filmcoverflow.png
As soon as I change the Get Info options tab from Film to TV program either for one video or all of them, then cover flow screws up again.
Any idea how to fix this annoyance?

The weird thing is, it worked before. I encoded all the videos previously and had them all listed and didn't encounter this problem, but I noticed I'd forgotten to decomb/detelecine the videos so I deleted everything and re-encoded it all. AFter filling the tags out and setting poster frames again I was thinking of making life easier by just pasting the same artwork for every episode, so I did, but didn't like the results so I deleted it again (I selected every video, used Get Info and pasted the artwork that way).
I think it was after this that the problem started to occur. In any case I've been through every episode and made sure the name, series, episode and episode id fields are all filled in with incremental values and they are. I even made sure the Sort Name field was filled in on every video. But this didn't work either.
So, thinking another restart was needed I deleted every video again. Re-encoded them all, again. Set the tags for every video and poster frame again. Finished it all off nicely, checked cover flow and was highly annoyed to find it was STILL showing the same two pieces of art work for every video as shown in that image I posted.
Ultimately, I wouldn't care so much that cover flow is screwing up like this as I always intended to sort by program anyway so it would only ever display one piece of artwork for an entire series of videos, however where-as when it was working it picked the artwork for the first episode of a series to display, its instead picking one of the latter episodes. I can't seem to find any way of choosing what artwork I want displayed.

Cover Flow ?'s

I have a Tiger G5 and for some reason only a few albums have cover flow. How do i get the cover flow re imported etc.

When you say only a few albums have cover flow I presume by that you mean that only a few albums have artwork to display in the cover flow view. iTunes will only fetch artwork for albums that are on sale in the iTunes Music Store (and sometimes even that doesn't work if the info tags aren't identical). If you have a lot of albums that are not available to iTunes because they are older, obscure or simply not at present licensed for sale in the store then iTunes won't add any artwork.
If the album artwork you want isn't available in the iTunes store you can add it manually, you just need to have the relevant image file. You'll get information on both methods at this link: iTunes for Mac - Adding artwork to songs and other items
I find this site is a good source of album artwork: CD/Album Cover Art Search from SlothRadio.
Another place for finding suitable artwork is to go to Amazon. You can also locate artwork using Google image search and put the artist or album name. Locate the album from any of those sources, right click (or Control - click) on the image, choose "save image to the desktop" and once it's there drag it to the iTunes artwork pane. Once you've added the artwork you can either delete the original file or keep it in a folder somewhere in case you need to use it again.
If you have a scanner you can create your own artwork files by scanning the CD cover itself, this is particularly useful when you are dealing with rare recordings.

Cover Flow won't display JPEGs

Am new mac user - running Leopard and have Adobe CS3 on the machine. Primary reason for moving to mac was to get improved control over my photos and videos. After loading about 10K photos onto the machine (am managing with Adobe Bridge, not iPhoto), I realized that Cover Flow in Finder will not display the JPEG files. It simply puts up an icon with a JPEG label on it. Have looked online for a solution but no clear guidance - does anyone have a solution to this? Thanks.

PS--too late to edit, but one thing to try, to make sure Coverflow isn't having some sort of major problem, is go to to a web site that has jpegs. Make yourself a folder on the Desktop, call it WebJPEGs, then click on a jpeg in the browser window, continue to hold the mouse button down, pause for just a second, and then, still holding the mouse button down, drag the jpeg out of the browser window and drop it (release the mouse button) when you are over the folder you created. Add several jpegs to the folder this way, then open the folder and put it in Coverflow. Does Coverflow draw the custom icons?
Just in case you can't think of a web site you know has jpegs, you can use this page:
http://www.pinkmutant.com/smug/tutorials/compositing.html
All the pix are in jpeg format, and were created in Photoshop Elements on the Mac.
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Album Art - Not showing all in Album View or Cover Flow

Recently I redid my Itunes Libary where with one artist with songs from several different albums, (and album artwork), renamed the album under Get Info to "Greatest Hits". Now, the specific album art for each song shows when the song is playing, but under Album View/Cover Flow only one Album Art shows for each artist. Assume this had something to do with my renaming multiple songs for the artist to Greatest Hits. Is there any way to get back the specific Album Art for each song under Album View/Cover Flow? Thanks.

If you are only adding it to one song, that won't work. Itunes itself does this for artwork that it finds automatically, but if you want to add them yourself you have to add the artwork to every track. Find the track that you added the artwork to copy the artwork using command - C , then select all of the tracks at the same time in itunes, do a get info and paste the artwork into the artwork window of the tagging window.

Is there any possibility to add a cover to a playlist?

This means: I dont want to add a cover to every single song in a playlist, but to attach a cover to a playlist as a whole.

I do have many duplicates (one song released in: album of the artist, best of album, compilations, etc.).
To eliminate duplicates: Select Music> File> Display Duplicates. Or use a shareware program such as Song Sergeant, which has the added advantage of allowing you to combine metadfata info (ratings, play counts, etc), before eliminating duplicates.
http://www.lairware.com/songsergeant/
But how to keep the info about album and tracknumber at all and accessible?
The info is kept in metadata tags that is accessible and editable thru the Get Info... window. If you are talking about pretending that the one track you saved comes from all thouse different, multiple sources, your best option would be to add that info to the Comments field. To make this, and other, fields visible in iTunes, simply select them in View> View Options.
My best guess so far is to keep only one file and add that one to several playlists (one for each album the song has been released in).
In a second step I would love to browse through my playlists in cover flow; therefore I would need to add a cover to a playlist. (of course this would need an additional option in coverflow, namely playlists)
That is simply not what Playlists are used for or were desiogned for. Can't be done.
Generally, however, your assumption that all these versions are identical is incorrect. The same song might appear on different albums, but might differ in mix, recording version, remastering version, single mixes, video mixes, etc.

Cover Flow - preview image for videos and folders

Hello,
Is there any way to change the still image used as a preview for a video file in Cover Flow in the Finder? I've found that browsing through folders full of video files, it mostly shows me black previews, or previews containing bits of text (opening credits).
It would be useful if I could select a still frame to use as the preview, so that I can actually tell at a glance which video I'm looking at -- the filenames are not particularly useful in this regard. I have all the files tagged for use with spotlight so that I can search them easily, but would still like to be able to find the files visually as well.
Similarly, I have folders full of images. Is it possible to replace the generic folder icon with one of the images contained in that folder, so that I can see which set of photos is in that folder?
I haven't been able to find anything about this, so I'll assume for now it's not possible. Any ideas if this might be a future feature?
Thanks,
Johannes.

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Cover Flow w/ Individual Tracks

I have a number of singles in my library with no album info listed. When I view in grid or cover flow, each individual track shows up with the generic iTunes icon as cover art.
Is there a way to either:
a) consolidate all the singles for each artist so that they only show up once in grid or cover flow views, and/or
b) select if you want certain tracks/albums to be hidden in grid or cover flow views?

Some albums may not be what would normally be called a compilation album (e.g. Now That's What I Call Music Vol X is a compilation album), but might have tracks with differing artists. The classic example is Queen's Greatest Hits III.
Microsoft of all people came up with a good idea on how to cope with this which is an additional meta tag called "Album Artist" which is different to the individual track artist. Using the same Queen's Great Hits III album example, the entire album would by any sensible person be considered to be a Queen album but track 2 (Under Pressure) of that album is jointly by Queen & David Bowie (not just Queen).
I (and I presume others) requested Apple add support for this Album Artist tag and it was indeed added in iTunes 7.0. Unfortunately in my opinion, Apple's implementation is not as good as Microsoft's.
Apple in iTunes do not let you browse by Album Artist at all, nor do they let you properly sort by Album Artist (in my opinion this sorting is broken).
I direct you to this other older message thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=843028&start=15&tstart=0 in which you can see a screen capture by myself listing just two albums - Queen's Greatest Hits II, and Queen's Greatest Hits III. Despite the fact that I have filled in all the tracks to all have the identical Album Artist entry (of Queen), you can see Coverflow incorrectly breaks it in to two copies of Queen's Greatest Hits II, and three copies of Greatest Hits III.
The only way I have found to get iTunes to correctly group all the tracks of an album together is to use any of the three sorting by Album name options (all accessed by clicking on the column heading called Album).
Note: Microsoft do let you browse and sort properly by the Album Artist tag in Windows Media Player.
[I suppose Microsoft have to get something right eventually!]

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!

I had the same problem when I updated to 7.3, but I was able to fix it.
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.
You have a few options for how you change the extension. You can right click on every file in your itunes library and select "Show In Finder" to change the file extension, or if you have many songs to fix (I had 793) you can download 'A Better Finder Rename' (search for it at www.versiontracker.com, it costs $20 to change more than 10 files at a time) which will make the changes automatically. If you are cheap you can always set up an automator work-flow to get the job done.
Hope this helps

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