I have just discovered the cover flow option and that you can get the album artwork (well most of them) automatically downloaded. This has instantly made itunes more attractive to me as seeing the album cover is like having my real CD's in front of me.
To me this is the greatest advance in digital music, it sounds simple but seeing dull text names just isn't the same as seeing pictures of the albums. Iv'e had itunes for 4 years or so and have only dabbeld with it but discovering cover flow is a revelation.
However, compliation albums and greatest hits seem to cause all sorts of bother. The title "Greatest Hits" is quite popular for albums and when I imported Take That GH, Bangles GH and one other they all seem to come under the one cover.
Iv'e managed to frig it by selcting all the tracks, going to info and making things common (as I read here).
All is well and good if you select sort by album (you only get one album cover) but selecting the sort by artist column you get multiple copies of the same compilation album cover as each artist is sorted alphabetically.
Is there any way to have an artist view a la cover flow so you would see a picture of ABBA then Bee Gees etc etc?
Cover flow is great but it doesn't handle compilation albums very well.
In fact how are people handling compilation albums (like Now That's what I call music etc, not artist greatest hits)- I am considering tediously recompiling all the artists under one artist album but it could take some time.
To me this is the greatest advance in digital music, it sounds simple but seeing dull text names just isn't the same as seeing pictures of the albums. Iv'e had itunes for 4 years or so and have only dabbeld with it but discovering cover flow is a revelation.
However, compliation albums and greatest hits seem to cause all sorts of bother. The title "Greatest Hits" is quite popular for albums and when I imported Take That GH, Bangles GH and one other they all seem to come under the one cover.
Iv'e managed to frig it by selcting all the tracks, going to info and making things common (as I read here).
All is well and good if you select sort by album (you only get one album cover) but selecting the sort by artist column you get multiple copies of the same compilation album cover as each artist is sorted alphabetically.
Is there any way to have an artist view a la cover flow so you would see a picture of ABBA then Bee Gees etc etc?
Cover flow is great but it doesn't handle compilation albums very well.
In fact how are people handling compilation albums (like Now That's what I call music etc, not artist greatest hits)- I am considering tediously recompiling all the artists under one artist album but it could take some time.
