Sort Coverflow by Album not Artist
is their anyway to Sort Coverflow on the iPod Classic by Album and not Artist
MBP C2D 17, Mac OS X (10.4.10), 200GBHDD
Agreed. Until then, can't we all just rock on?
jt
jt
78 replies
JT:
the coverflow is worthless a it stands was implied opinion, as i seriously doubt it can be considerd fact.
correct, it is not broken, and yes it is worthless as its implemented atm( to me )
i have so many cause i can,,, same why i bought a 6th gen and a Touch same day
my 5th gen 60GB will be relegated to my ExtremeMac Luna or Car.
6th Gen 80GB mostly for long trips,
iTouch for general use due to its Wifi
Previous Nano i ended up giving to my mother as she didnt have one, and she was starting to get into the whole music on the computer thing.
Photo i gave to a friend, he later got a 5.5Gen.
RON: agreed,i have my ID3 tags done almost perfectly why i dont want to do the "Workaround", i origionally used Media player years ago, but stoped when it completly messed up every ID3 tag for a coupel thousand songs that took me a couple days to fix
Message was edited by: CKNairb
Message was edited by: CKNairb
the coverflow is worthless a it stands was implied opinion, as i seriously doubt it can be considerd fact.
correct, it is not broken, and yes it is worthless as its implemented atm( to me )
i have so many cause i can,,, same why i bought a 6th gen and a Touch same day
my 5th gen 60GB will be relegated to my ExtremeMac Luna or Car.
6th Gen 80GB mostly for long trips,
iTouch for general use due to its Wifi
Previous Nano i ended up giving to my mother as she didnt have one, and she was starting to get into the whole music on the computer thing.
Photo i gave to a friend, he later got a 5.5Gen.
RON: agreed,i have my ID3 tags done almost perfectly why i dont want to do the "Workaround", i origionally used Media player years ago, but stoped when it completly messed up every ID3 tag for a coupel thousand songs that took me a couple days to fix
Message was edited by: CKNairb
Message was edited by: CKNairb
hey i'm with you... i'm extremely happy with my iPod Classic 80gb... sure beats the h3ll out of the 4gb Nano it replaced! I'm a big fan of constructive feedback rather than complaining... I'm a software engineer-turned-technical project manager so I'm sensitive to the fact that software will always have bugs... I always appreciate the customers that provide useful feedback about any problems they experience with my products... it's the ones that complain that the product is "broken" and write it off without even giving the developers a chance to fix the problem that annoy me, hehe.
Rob
Rob
Please fix this Apple - coverflow is useless without it.
Use this feedback form: http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html Here, Apple will not hear you at all.
This should be an option - not restricted to one way or the other. I want coverflow to sort by artist. This simulates looking thru music at a store - where each artist is tabbed and the albums are kept together. I have lots of compilations, and they should show up at the end as 'compilations' or 'various'. I see why others would want it by album name but with very large collections of a variety of music, i tend to know my stuff by artist way better than i do by album name.
Thanks for this.
I've given feedback and note from another thread that Apple are looking at a fix now.
Pretty pleased with my ipod 80gig otherwise, very high quality screen.
I've given feedback and note from another thread that Apple are looking at a fix now.
Pretty pleased with my ipod 80gig otherwise, very high quality screen.
yeah, I too submitted feedback yesterday using this link... I then noticed there was a v1.0.1 update for my iPod Classic with the release notes "bug fixes"... I was crossing my fingers hoping it would fix this Cover Flow issue but was let down when I saw that nothing had changed in this regard. Hopefully 1.0.2 will fix Cover Flow and will be released soon.
Another problem with Cover Flow AND regular album view is that it apparently does not read the "album artist" field. For example, Bob Seger Greatest Hits and Boston Greatest Hits appear under "Greatest Hits" with no distinction between the two. That's a little more than an inconvenience.
I filled out the feedback form (thanks for that) but it only went up through 5G Videos...no option to select the Classics. Sheesh.
I filled out the feedback form (thanks for that) but it only went up through 5G Videos...no option to select the Classics. Sheesh.
the biggest issue to me having a brain new nano is that compilation in coverflow are not seen as a single album whereas iTune behaves that way, so that the album is replicated for each artist !
could it be possible to have compilation gatherred as only one album in the coverflow ?
could it be possible to have compilation gatherred as only one album in the coverflow ?
You shouldn't need to set it as a compilation. If it would just read and recognize the "Album Artist" this would be fixed.
The iPhone does the same thing and it's annoying.
The iPhone does the same thing and it's annoying.
Has anybody ever 'opened' a 'Greatest Hits' album in 'Cover Flow' on your iPod ? You will see all the songs from every 'Greatest Hits' album you have.
Nice testing there !
Nice testing there !
Perhaps another way of putting this issue in context is that Coverflow on the iPod does not have the same sort flexibility that Coverflow in iTunes does. When I sort my library by artist, album, etc. in iTunes it re-orders Coverflow accordingly.
As has been pointed out here, the current iPod Coverflow only allows one sort option... by artist.
Would be nice if Coverflow had the same sort capabilities on both.
As has been pointed out here, the current iPod Coverflow only allows one sort option... by artist.
Would be nice if Coverflow had the same sort capabilities on both.
Agreed.
This would be the ultimate solution and would give users flexibility.
This would be the ultimate solution and would give users flexibility.
I just want to say that sure, we could rename our tracks so that Cover Flow looks better.. BUT, I don't know about some of you, but I know I put a LOT of work into tagging my tracks.
Sort Coverflow by Album not Artist