How to show album art on itunes 11 without playing a song, just selecting it as it was on itunes 10.7???

i have just updated to iTunes 11 and i had the same problem. But i've just figured it out (:

As you can see from the attatched image below of my iTunes library; in order to view the album artwork without playing a song you need to click on the 'Artists' tab as shown below...

I hope this has helped.

This is unacceptable. You should be able to see the album artwork from the songs menu.

I agree completely. I want to be able to see the album artof a selected song, or of the playing song, and NOT as either a very tiny icon in the top bar of the window or a modal window floating over everything else in order to do so. I am so far not impressed with the "advances" of iTunes 11, and (so far) wish I had not upgraded.

I also miss the ability to show any playlist in album view, with album icons. The new way does not meet my needs.

Helpful, but insufficient.

My music library is filled with musical theater, and as a consequence, sorting by "Artist" is a bad choice, because virtually every song in a Broadway cast album is by a different artist.

I want to see the artwork when I am sorting by album.

I upgraded to iTunes 11 last night and worked on a similar problem for the past 30 minutes... They've removed album artwork from the playlist view. These are big oversights -- hopefully these problems will be fixed in an update.

There is still no artwork when in "songs" mode or in "playlists" mode. I'm finally getting used to not having cover flow, sort of. The new way of viewing albums is superb and by artist is decent but you have to be able to see art for single tracks andbe able to browse in that fashion as well. I don't think Steve would have let this go, unfinished as it is......'-)

This is nuts, after spending the time to upgrade to 11 now I have to download and reinstall 10 because of this. After that I have to put up with iTunes nagging me about updates every time I start it. Totally unacceptable, they managed to take out one of the best features of iTunes.

This is actually not accurate. You do not have to switch to the Artists tab to view artwork. When in the Playlist tab, there is a "View" pull down in the upper right corner of the screen. Click on it and select "Artist List" to change the view (similar to the format of the Artists tab mind you) to view the track artwork.

Take note that the "artist list" on the left side is like a side anchored column browser but the artwork shown here is not for the current album in the playlist, just the first cover iTunes finds under each particular artist (like in the Artist tab). (And another goofy design decision IMHO, why show artwork here at all?). The actually album/track artwork is on the playlist side. You also can't enable the full column browser in this view as it's tied to the default "List" view.

I don't necessarily prefer this new approch but wanted to clarify for others.

Message was edited by: brian163

When is a database not a database? When it is an operating system. iTunes 10 was slow, quirky, and didn’t offer the functionality of the likes of Spotify, but it was serviceable. So what is iTunes11? Well it appears to have copied the look of the Songbird interface, icons are replaced by lists, and the ability to show album covers with genres is now limited. The iTunes store gets a massive push, and it’s difficult to use the programme without iTunes Store popping up. However, before you can explore these “joys”, you need to rebuild your library, which the update program trashed. Then you need to start correcting all of the music and video descriptions. As this is days of work, and so you ask the question “How do I get rid of iTunes11?” Apple’s answers is “You can’t because it’s not a database, it’s an operating system”. Come back Microsoft all is forgiven.

I wish there was a way to display album artwork in the 'Songs' viewmode. I input record label info and other stuff under 'Comments'; I also use bit rate, genre, rating, disc number and none of this info shows up in the 'Album' or 'Artist' view mode. If albums were displayed in 'Songs' viewmode I would have all the info in one place.

Also, if I'm viewing in 'Songs' mode ... and switch over to 'Albums' the screen scrolls to the top instead of staying on the same artist. Vice versa if on 'Albums' mode.

Also, I'm used to the standard sidebar in iTunes. When viewing in 'Album' or 'Artist' view modes having the standard sidebar along with the new artist sidebar is clunky.

It's frustrating to not be able to see all the info in one place. It's the worst side of my left-brain but It's nice to see on the screen.

Just found out not even 2 minutes ago that if you click on the little square picture at the top when under the songs tab you will see and enlarged picture. Its not what is used to be, but its something

I think this is good enough for me. If you click the album artwork like BaileyUrsy said you'll have a big display of the album artwork through each song, albiet in a different window. But that'll work, thanks!

One more tip. You can change the size of album artwork in this view by clicking the View menu in the option bar, View Options..., and then there is a slider.