Is cover flow gone in iTunes 11?

Nope. Can't keep 11. I've done a back-door "hack" on my mac for the first time. After reading, decided to do this method.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=16400819&postcount=6

Worked great, no probs. Listening to some christmas music with full screen cover fow right now!

usernametaken75 wrote:

Angry music lovers should spend more time listening to their music instead of worrying about a static image displayed on their screen. Think about this - how many people put an album cover on a stand and stared directly at the album cover while playing a vinyl LP? It's kind of ridiculous for me to even think about it. Sure you might flip through the liner notes or have the cover in your hands for a few minutes, but it's just a cover. Revert back to the old version if you're against progress. I'm not even saying this to be snarky. It's just a feature you didn't pay for to begin with.

Apparently, many people appreciate the album artwork based on many threads on the internet. Just because you don't care for the album artwork, doesn't mean the feature should be removed entirely. CoverFlow was not even a default view. People who wanted to use the feature, activated it. Now, Apple eliminates it. Against progress? Explain how removing a feature that displayed the artwork of a music CD, in a program that is designed for listening to music CDs, is progress? They even removed the artwork display box from the sidebar, which was originally how the artwork was displayed in iTunes 3. Clicking on the thumbnail in the progress bar to view the artwork is not a replacement for CoverFlow. Many people recognize an album by the artwork, and iTunes 11 removes the ability to easily find music by flipping through album covers. Apple alleged that iTunes 11 was all about finding your content easier. Their solution was to remove a feature that people used to find their music? CoverFlow automatically updated and displayed the currently playing album. iTunes 11 doesn't even do that! If you are in any view, other than list view, the iTunes main page will not update for the song being played. At least iTunes 10 and prior versions did that, and the main page jumped to the album currently being played. So now how is that for progress? You may not think your comment was snarky, but it was. Telling people to go back to an old version because they are against progress is snarky. iTunes 11 is not an improvement when features are removed.

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I really like the new itunes 11! but removing cover flow instead is a bad decision!!!!!! maybe we get it back with a further update?! it was so cool to browse through playlists using cover flow

Removing this feature is unbelievably stupid. Why even do it? Did the Maps app team help out with iTunes this time around?

I agree this is a bad move. Apple needs to readd this feature back fast - like hotfix fast Used it quite a bit, both on a media center in 65" and on an eyefinity workstation, and on my various laptops.

As an Apple user since my first Mac IIci back in 1989, and an avid iTunes user since it came out on my iBook in 2001... for the first time, I am totally dismayed, but compelled to respond at the removal of the 'cover flow' option in the new iTunes 11.

Can this really be considered an upgrade when many previously useful features have also been eliminated? iTunes Lite would seem to be a more appropriate title.

Cover Flow seemed to me a natural staple in the iTunes/iPod/iPhone user interface with simple gesture or cursor action to easily flip through your iTunes library.

What happened to the old Apple that always made thoughtful software upgrades to progress, enhance, but support prior user experiences. We miss you Steve Jobs....

I'm not sure they are listening to their customers anymore, one of Apples biggest strenghs has been their ability to anticipate their customers needs & desires as well as create new ones. I'll give them a little grace here (for awhile) as they have made decisions like this before that have upset users (removed floppy drive, etc) to force advancement of hardware & OS technology but I'm worried about this one and where it feels like its headed.

Worked like a charm but I did have to Option Launch iTunes 10.7 and locate my iTunes Previous Version library to get it to run successfully.

What??? Coverflow gone? This is total madness, why on earth have they done this? BRING IT BACK, I say. Folks who didn't/don't use it, good for them. I did use it and I loved it. ****.

CoverFlow has become a valuable tool for many people, and for many reasons. I am a music historian and CoverFlow was an important avenue of visual acces in a huge music library. It does not seem that Apple decisionmakers had an understanding of the broad diversity of users who would be negatively impacted by CoverFlowʻs disappearance. This is quite disappointing.

Wow! I've just went back into new iTunes and it's even worse than lack of Cover Flow!

The only view that shows all your tagged song info is "list", but in "list" contains no cover art. Any of the other sorted window formats contain NO tagged information (plays, composer, last played, date added, size, bit rate, etc.)... all are gone. This ***** even more than I thought!

Thanks for putting this out there! I'm dyslexic, and have worked quite a bit with students who have learning differences of various kinds. The new Coverflow-less iTunes is actually painful to use for me, and I've already found other online comments about fatigue, headaches etc. I expect that a lot of right-brain/visual/spatial users will find the new iTunes as uncomfortable, non-intuitive, and opaque as I do.

If you or anyone you know submits input about the new iTunes officially to Apple, I suggest that you select the tab that says "Accessibility features in iTunes (for people with disabilities)" when you are sending feedback. Whether or not you think that's a good idea, I fully agree that this is not an issue of a bells-and-whistles "feature"; it's a basic question of interface accessibility. Thanks again.

Add me to the list of people who have reverted back to 10.7 after this debacle. I honestly can't understand why Apple would apparently forget that a lot of people like to have something nice to watch while listening through their A/V systems. Don't even get me started on the crappy visualizer that will only play psychedelic visuals and can't leave the "now playing" info visible on the screen. Cover Flow is nice, but doesn't work if you are listening to, say, a genre or artist as opposed to a playlist. If anyone knows of a good visualizer for Windows that has attractive, non-psycho graphics and can keep the now playing info visible I'd appreciate it. I've tried Cover Version but it is way too rudimentary for my tastes.

I suppose I should be grateful that iTunes at least saves a copy of your old library before "upgrading". Without that, I'd be really upset 😁

I noticed this for TV shows. I HATE how they are listed now.