Sort Coverflow by Album not Artist

Ditto to this. Coverflow is pretty worthless to me sorted by artist because of all the random singles I have that don't have album artwork (on purpose). Anyway we could sort by album?

I agree as well.. by album please!

I would like to see this too. At least have an option to change it in the menu.

I'm also experiencing this issue - has anyone found a workaround or solution?

I agree. I have another question with Coverflow. My 160G ipod only has cover flow for my entire library, I would like to have it for playlists. 10,000 songs is a lot to coverflow....

So if I have a bunch of songs with the same album cover picture on it and have the same artist but change the album title on each song will all the songs show up when I click the album picture or will there be multiple pictures with only one song on each one?

I was able to sort coverflow by album by changing the artist names to the album name.

For example, my Rhino 70's box set has 7 discs and 150+ artists. It showed up on coverflow as 150+ album covers. A real drag.

I highlighted all of the songs in the set and opened the dialog box to change multiple song entries. From there I renamed the artist to "Rhino 70's Box Set", and cleared the multiple disc box. When I clicked OK I ended up with one album cover for the whole set. I entertained the idea of adding the artist names to each individual song so they would show up on playback, but that seemed way too anal for me 🙂

BTW, I did the same single disc designation for all of my box sets, consolidating all of the discs under one cover. Works for me.

jt

I had some sorting problems also until I read this Apple link:

http://www.apple.com/lae/itunes/smartplaylists.html

I hope this helps.

ks

Its just amazingly inconvenient to browse through Coverflow if not sorted by Album.
It also creates a lot of clutter by duplicating album artworks!
As people have mentioned before, not having Coverflow once u get into ur playlists and other sub-menus too is a big damper!
As it stands now, Coverflow is useless to me with my 40 gb of music!

I would like to see Album sorted Coverflow at the earliest! i just cant understand why would Apple think sorting by artist was a better idea?? and if yes..why could we not be given the option to change this ridiculous default!

Apple, please fix this ASAP!
thnx

.k.

I don't see how you can call coverflow worthless. Just rename the artists to whatever common name you prefer, add the artist name to the song name if you like, and rock on man. Either that or don't use the feature until they fix it.

I don't get all the ******** about this issue. There's a way around it if you choose, that allows you to see the album with the art work and all of the artists grouped together. Of course many compilations have no art work available anyway, so whatever (at least a lot of mine don't).

The point is it's a great feature that's fun to use. It may not be perfect, but you know it's also not required for listening to your music.

jt

I don't get it, aren't most of your songs on sngle artist albums? Or are you saying you have 4,000 one off songs? You are aware that single artist albums show up as one cover right?

The only issue I've seen with coverflow is sorting by artist name, which leads to compilations containing various artists to show as individual albums with cover art. Now if you have lots of these types of albums I can see how renaming might be considered a hassle. For me it just takes an extra minute or so to select the entire group of songs, make group changes as needed, and move on.

It really doesn't matter if your'e all miffy about this issue or not. I agree it's a personal preference issue or matter of opinion.

What I'm seeing here is a lot of people piling on an issue and many of them expressing a desire to return their unit as somehow "defective" due to this issue (all or in part). To me that's just nuts. My ipod performs just the way apple's web site said it would. It has the features I expected based on what I read. I sure don't recal any claim being made about the response time on the interface, the way it sorts my music in coverflow, or any other of the many "performance" issues I've been reading here.

The bottom line remains, it's an awesome little device. If you can find a better one, go for it. And let us all know about it to boot.

jt