Is cover flow gone in iTunes 11?

Amen To That!!!

apple just killed one of my favorite features.

Well, you are being snarky.

#1 – we’re not angry music lovers, we’re angry software users. #2 – You should stop telling people how they should feel about changes. I’m sure you get PO’d on occasion as well when developers change the features YOU like in software.

Think about this – a great deal of effort is put into album artwork. A lot of people do actually enjoy seeing that album art as the music plays. You obviously don’t understand that. And, I, like many others, find my music by visually scanning the album covers, not by reading lists of text names. And if I’m not sure what I want to listen to, I’m not going to type in names in a search box. Also, I personally do not find it helpful to look for albums by looking at pages of image tiles, either. That’s why I left Windows Media Player.

So no, it’s not “just a cover”. Those covers have valuable information visually that assists us in determining what we want to play.

I’d like to know how the removal of a useful (and, when first implemented, officially trumpted) feature could be called progress. What progressed exactly, may I ask? It is the height of hubris to think we’re all dinosaurs who don’t like progress. This change took something useful away and provided nothing of value to replace it. If you take something away, give me something better. That didn’t happen here. Just a bunch of other features that I'll probably never use or use once in a blue moon.

You folks who didn’t like the cover flow feature, or who found it “useless”, could disable it. So why all the holier-than-thou attitude for those of us who actually found it useful?

Welcome to the way apple works. When will people figure out apple dumbs down things over and over and over again. I got fed up with losing features when apple would update software. Also, the black background is gone. You know what? Apple doesn't care. They think they can do whatever they want and people will keep coming back. History shows apple is about to fall!

I don't understand how apple has a reputation for beautiful interfaces when they take the only eye candy away aka cover-flow. Years ago I noticed the trend that apple constantly downgrades software. People need to wake-up and move on.

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i'm still running snow leopard because of apples hideous design choices and bloatware. at this point they've been horrifically designing things for about 4 years now. snow leopard doesn't have ugly faux leather interfaces and is dramatically faster than lion/mountain lion. i'll just stick to OSX 10.6 and old itunes forever i suppose. i have no hope that apple will turn anything around here. osx is all i have left of apple, i've abandoned all other platforms as they all look cheap and outdated.

YAY! Congratulations! Worst iTunes ever!!

While you're at it... why not abandon cover art altogether to make it an even simpler and faster interface to use. Easy fix... just re-release iTunes 1.0 and you're good to go!

Next up... hire Steve Balmer to really run the Apple into the ground.

Well said, I thought they already had hired someone like that. I DETEST this iTunes and what's more I posted about these issues (small artwork) in the previous version of iTunes, Apple then decides to make the artwork even smaller in this version.

listen Apple i know you think you know what your customers want better than customers do but trust me, this time you're WRONG!

Will they ever listen? No didn't think so..

Funny part is we all waited for this stripped down version...cover flow is cool bring it back....view dupes and playback editor.....

I love the idea of Cover Flow But I have thousands of albums and it always lagged so I dont miss it

What about everybody else? Couldn't you just choose a different browser window? I don't get it. I have over 7,000 albums and cover flow lagged a bit, but worked fine. Freedom to choose is a good thing Maslov.

I understand. I loved it. I wish it worked perfectly when I used it. I would flip through albums and then they would finally load in the image. Thats more of the computer than iTunes I suspect but It would be nice to have that option. For me, DJ is a big loss. I see the labvue in Up Next but it really is NOT the same.

Removing that feature was incredibly stupid. I just wish I had read this blog before I downloaded "new & improved" version. Is it just me or is Apple making everyone angry. I think I know why my stock has been stagnant.

katie pea wrote:

i'm still running snow leopard because of apples hideous design choices and bloatware. at this point they've been horrifically designing things for about 4 years now. snow leopard doesn't have ugly faux leather interfaces and is dramatically faster than lion/mountain lion. i'll just stick to OSX 10.6 and old itunes forever i suppose. i have no hope that apple will turn anything around here. osx is all i have left of apple, i've abandoned all other platforms as they all look cheap and outdated.

This is what I'm doing too... It makes me kind of sad to think that there will probably never be another version of OS X or iTunes that I like as much as Snow Leopard or iTunes 10...

For me, there was never a question about updating in the past. I got blindly Snow Leopard because I knew it would be an improvement and I updated to iTunes 10 because I knew it would be good. When Lion and Mountain Lion came out, I looked at the features I'd lose vs the ones I'd gain and ultimately decided to never upgrade.