Viewing cover flow through ipod playing on itunes

I have too much music and don't keep it all on the computer hard drive. Can I plug ipod into itunes and view Cover Flow of the ipod contents while its playing? Cover Flow works great with the files that are in itunes Library, just not through the ipod>computer>itunes.

Can I plug ipod into itunes and view Cover Flow of the ipod contents while its playing?
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My mac is the new Mac book pro 15.4 inch screen and I connect my mac pro to external display e.g. Samsung LCD monitor 24 inches.
The bug is that I can not PROPERLY view full screen (in external display) for some application e.g. iTunes, and Front Row.
- When I use iTunes, I can not properly view Cover Flow view in full screen (in the external display screen) except the case of mirror display.
- For Front Row, I can not view full screen in external display but only my mac display.
However, for other DVD or VDO players, I can view movie on external display in full screen and I still be able to do other works on my mac screen.
Please let me know how to solve it.

found the likely issue! are you participating in youtube's html5 trial? go here and it will tell you if you are:
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exit the trial and it should fix the issue. it worked for me!

View –Cover Flow View-Grey scale images

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Hi. No problems when I view my album covers in either [List View] or [Album View]. When I use [Cover Flow View] I get distorted lines, less than even a blurred image, in fact grey scale. Seems strange that iTunes can display in [List View] or [Album View], but not in [Cover Flow View]. Any ideas? Thanks.

I don't know the answer to this so a couple of suggestions, are you on the latest version of iTunes that is compatible with Windows 2000?
If not you can download it here:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/itunes732forwindows2000.html
Are you upto date with your DirectX for Windows 2000? Although looking at the MS website it doesn't look as though there is anything particularly new:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7c61e5da-8c60-43f6-9549 -65b93cf6f987&DisplayLang=en
Also check your computer manufacturer's support website to make sure you are upto date with your drivers etc.

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Enable artist overview, cover flow on ipod AND artist column in iTunes...

Greetingz
Here's the problem:
I want to enable the artist column in iTunes for all my music.
I can already do this with genres and albums, and its so convenient.
However the artist column is showing only "collections" instead of -+for example Abba, Aerosmith, ACDC, ..+-
This is because I have put everything on Complication "Yes"
and on my ipod classic complication in the music menu is 'clicked' off. Why? so the ipod doesn't show all covers separately in the cover flow. its all good on the ipod; I can also get a list of all artists and genres. But in iTunes the artist column only gives one category and thats "complications" not like abba aerosmith acdc you name it. How can I get this right for both the ipod (remember also the cover flow as well as the artists must work correctly) AND iTunes? I find this very complicated and one of the only things I am unable to figer out.
Many many thanks to all who help!

"Compilation" means that the album is one of those Time-Life type "Disco Hits" or "50's Greats" CDs that aren't by one artist. I would suggest either turning off compilations for everything or going through each song and filling in the "Album Artist" field.

Cover flow on ipod classic 160gb 6th gen

I was just given an ipod classic 160gb 6th gen, it the previous owners music on it, so I hooked it up to itunes & restored it & updated it to factory settings & put my name on it. I noticed in cover flow mode, that albums are doubled, one for the entire album, then the album cover again for individual songs. when I go to album view, the albums show up ok, there are no double ups there. I also notice when I scroll down to the now playing with the split screen, it comes up blank with no cover art. I had an 80gb 5th gen ipod & everything seemed ok. I wiped it clean with a restore as well to start fresh. It took about an hour & a half to sync over my music library from my external hard drive to my new 160 gb 6th gen ipod. It seems to play ok, so far, I just got it today, & I have been playing it on & off to try it out.
I am running itunes 9.0.1.8. Also when I plug in my ipod, itunes ops up with an update message for me to update, I click ok for the update, but nothing seems to happen, so I do not know if itunes has updated or not.
Message was edited by: Sossity

Sossity wrote:
Ok, should I try the trialing X, for those persistent multi covers that do not respond to adjusting the track names as first suggested? I went to your tips page & saw the graphic for that. Is it ok to just leave the Xs in or must they be removed?
iTunes tries to be "smart" and only updates the tag if it thinks you've changed something. Adding the X is a temporary measure to force iTunes to acknowlege that something has changed and thereby hopefully merge the album. Once it's done you can get rid of the unecessary trailing Xs.
I also looked at your image for handling multi discs, will this group multi discs together in cover flow?
Yes, that's the point.
& when one is playing a multi disc set, will the ipod just go straight to the next disc (disc 2) in playback as though it were one single album?
Yes.
or will playback stop at the last track of disc 1 & then one would have to select disc 2 to play.
No.
Will the multi disc set still come up as 2 different discs to selct to play? I may not want to start with disc 1.
No. You can always chose which track to start playing.
One of the albums I was having trouble with multi covers was part of a 2 disc set, disc 1 was credited to the main artist, but had guest artists for 1/2 the tracks, disc 2 was by the same artist with no guest artists. I have now gotten disc 1 to show as a single cover in cover flow by checking off part of a compilation in the info panel, but it does not appear next to disc 2 in cover flow.
Again setting *Part of a compilation" is the wrong approach. Set *Part of a compilation* to No, put your guest artist info. into the track titles (or any other scheme you choose) and make sure that the Artist value is consistent for all tracks.
on an off note, I notice when I press my ipod button or navigate any of its features, there is a slight grinding noise, I can hear the hard drive, when I bring it close to my ear, it sounds like a chewing mouse is this ok/normal to hear slight noises? it seems to be functioning alright. It is pretty responsive.
Yes, the noise from disc activity is normal. My iPod lives in a silcone sleeve which probably muffles it a bit and most of the time I'll have already have music playing so I'm rarely conscious of the noise of hard drive activity but it is there.
tt2

Cover flow with ipod

I just downloaded itunes 7 for windows, amd running windows XP and I have an Ipod nano.
cover flow works fine with my libarary on my computer, but I am not able to use it when I play music from my ipod through itunes on my computer. Is this not an option or am I doing something wrong.
help?

Well actually you've always been able to play music via your iPod on the computer.
The point of being able to do this is if you have a situation in which you plug your iPod into a computer other than your own (or the one the iPod is associated with) that doesn't have any of your music on it, like a computer at work or in a school computer lab, etc. I use this all the time at the office.
It would be neat to see cover flow on the iPod, but I'm fairly certain that would require some 3d graphics acceleration, which iPods don't quite have yet. Hopefully once they get to that point, they'll be able to do fullscreen visualizations :-D.

Cover flow vs now playing

I've had my iPod touch for about a day now and in general I am impressed with the technology. Like others I use my iPod in the car and have contemplated cover flow landscape mode as the default orientation. However I've noticed that cover flow does not stay in sync with what's playing when the playing song leaves the album displayed onthe flow. Just tip it up and back to landscape and its play until the next album. You can guess how quickly it gets out of sync when it I'd on song shuffle.
Anyone else? Perhaps apple can fix this in the next code release. Along with loosening their tight controls on what we can do on the device.

I'm with you Mike. I'd love to be able to hit Shuffle Songs, sit my Touch in the little plastic cradle thingy, and have Cover Flow change when the song changes (just like it does in iTunes).
The album art stays in sync in portrait mode but you can't sit the Touch in the plastic cradle in portrait mode because the earphones jack is on the bottom.
I tried sitting it in the dock that came with my 4th Gen iPod and hooking the earphones into the line out jack but found that there was no way of controlling the volume (maybe I need a newer Dock?).
So at the moment I'm listening to Silverchair and looking at Jet. Hmmm.

Cover flow is distorted, pixelated, in itunes for Windows XP.

I feel like a chode posting on Apple forum...PC's suck, but I'm too stubborn to change over. Anyway, I did a clean install on Windows XP w/ service pack 2 and also re-installed itunes 7. The album artwork is displayed in the lower left corner and also works in the "list view", but it gets distorted and pixelated in the "cover flow" view. I updated the latest directx and also performed the direct diagnostic tools for direct draw acceleration and direct 3d, but the "cover flow" view is still poorly shown. Again, PC's suck...anyone know fix? Thanks.

I can't be of any help. But I do have the exact same problem on my Mac Pro. All the album art is there but Cover Flow itself is just not working. Not even after a clean install of Mac OS 10.6.1

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Never hurts to reset the device just in case that helps.
Confirm that the Sort Artist fields for the affected tracks are actually empty instead of containing one or more invisible spaces. Note that iTunes groups on Album Artist (order amended by Sort Album Artist) whereas the iPod Classic groups on Artist (order amended by Sort Artist).
See the section Missing or Artist or Album not with others by same artist which explains that enabling one or both of Settings > Main Menu > Compilations or Settings > Music Menu > Compilations can affect where tracks appear in cover flow.
The iTunes Store tends to mark albums that include any featured artists, or form an anthology of an artist's work, as part of a compilation to mitigate some of iTunes historically poor track grouping issues. Depending on your preferences within iTunes this flag may not have any noticable effect in iTunes, but may control what happens on the device.
Even though you can't see where the problem lies it may help to amend the track details in the way I describe at Tried that, there are STILL too many covers and then resync the device.
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Cover flow on ipod nano not working

My cover flow on my ipod stopped working when i plugged in ipod. Have the covers on itunes just not ipod. Also songs skip to next song sometimes also. Could be any song I never know. Seems since i upgraded to new itunes version stuff has been going wrong.

Try checking your ipod settings, i had an itunes one change on its own once. Go to settings, then general, then rotate. If it says "off", then just hit the center button. If it says "cover flow", then see if it's the orientation sensor by going to the "maze" game if you have it to test it. The circle thing on the menu will probably glitch up/not move if it's the orientation sensor. If it responds normally (rolls/slides in the direction you tip the ipod), then i'm not sure. Try calling their customer service line at 1-800-APL-CARE (1-800-275-2273) if that happens. Also, if you are walking w/ it with the hold switch off, then it may me that your walking is shaking it enough to shuffle it. That's my theory, anyway.
BTW, are you're sure the ipod's not too flat for the sensor to register the rotation? I've done that before. It'll register at about a 45 degree angle.

Cover Flow with Ipod Music?

Hi
This is something i never understood since the introduction of itunes 7.x and it's coverflow feature. Why isn't it available for the ipod music library?
All my music is stored on the ipod (and additionally as backup on a firewire drive that i rarely use), because i don't want to waste 60gb of my macbook-pro drive with mp3's...
So why isn't there any coverflow-feature for the ipod library? Or does anyone know a trick to enable it? Any suggestions?
Thanks

I have the exact same problem. I guess we're a minority enough that Apple doesn't care about those with large iPods and laptops (so no syncing).
The problem is that with iTunes 7, it was changed to accomdate CoverFlow. Previously, all album art added was automatically embedded into the file.
However, CoverFlow deals with loading lots of images, so iTunes 7 stores the album art in a folder - instead of embedding - in your iTunes directory as a "cache" so that it can easily and quickly retreive the images when you view CoverFlow (as opposed to having to reload every time).
You can't use CoverFlow for iPod music because iTunes doesn't have the image data stored somewhere consistent, and so would have to reload the album art everytime you reconnect your iPod and use CoverFlow, and then keep this image data stored on your computer even if that iPod is never again connected. This could be a strain on your resources, and so I guess Apple decided to play it simple and allow you to only use CoverFlow for music it knows that it has a cache for and that it knows still exists.
The best way around it is if you can store all your mp3s on an external drive, then when you add them to your library you'll be able to use CoverFlow.
Other then that, Apple's message seems to be "get a desktop" or "get a nano."

Can't view cover flow

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I am having the same problems. I just recently got my laptop working again and it doesn't want to do the cover flow when it did before. My PC with XP doesn't want to do cover flow either.
I saw on another post of updating the DirectX drivers which I did and when I run the diagnostics it shows there are no probs but I can't seem to enable the 3D and Draw. Or, else I'm not sure how to enable them. I've also updated my Flash. HELP! I really like viewing by cover flow so would like to get it working again.

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trial and error but i think i got it.. this worked for me running OS: 10.8.3, iTunes: 11.0.3
On your computer hard drive (running your OS) go to your music folder in finder and "IF" u have a folder called "iTunes" rename it to iTunes2 or whatever u what don't matter.
Create new iTunes by holding down opt key while opening iTunes. It will ask you to create or choose. press "Create Library..."
U will need to name…. save as: "iTunes" and the saved location HAS TO BE ON MAIN HARD DRIVE running your OS. This folder cant be saved to external hard drive ONLY MAIN HARD DRIVE and the name HAS to be "iTunes". It wont work with any other name
If you have large music located on external drive then u will need to go to preferences on iTunes and change "iTunes Media folder location" to your desired location on your external and MAKE SURE TO CHECK BOTH BOXES... ( the actual "iTunes" folder containing Album Artwork, iTunes Library.itl, iTunes Library.xml ect has to be located on main hard drive running OS that the trick)
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Adding media to new iTunes if the original media is located on EXTERNAL drive----. Pretty much its the same but back on step 4 if you saved "iTunes Media folder location" to external folder... then that folder has a folder called "iTunes Media folder location"" …. So if u add any media saved on that drive and drag to that folder it will just organize and move that original file only……
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Cover flow no longer showing in itunes...

I wondered if anyone else has had this issue in itunes, mine was working fine until a few weeks ago i started itunes and when selecting view > as coverflow the my artwork no longer displays. There is a line across the upper section of the window where the covers should show and the upper browse arrow has disappeared (see attached picture).
When i view album list or grid the album covers are still there and they still display on my ipod so it isnt as if the artwork has disappeared.
I am running Windows 7 and itunes version 10, i have uninstalled and reinstalled itunes with no change.
This is really frustrating and any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks

i found the answer - in Edit, Preferences the parental controls were set to disable access to the itunes store

Viewing cover flow through ipod playing on itunes

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