Loss of sizing MiniPlayer artwork in 11.0.3

Command-clicking the album artwork in the playback window opens the "mini-player" view that can be expanded to full screen.

Yes, this works for me in 11.0.3. When I click on the artwork in the playback window I get the new mini-player. When I command+click on the artwork I get the "old" mini-player you're looking for.

This doesn't work for me. Am I doing something wrong?

Are you clicking the artwork in the miniplayer?

Ok I got it, at least in Songs View. You can just command click the thumbnail, the thumbnail that is at the top progress bar/player, not the thumbnail in the miniplayer.

Yes. Command+click the artwork thumbnail in the status/playback area at the top of the iTunes window.

How in the world was anybody suppsed to know that!

But thanks for the hookup, joepke. I thought I was doomed to a lifetime of small album art.

I have Windows and since I upgraded to 11.0.3 I also can't enlarge artwork...does anyone know the commands for windows?

Found my own answer---to all Windows users with iTunes 11.0.3: To fully expand album artwork, simply press the Control key, and click on icon in main player. Artwork will expand to previous iTunes editions. This, to me, was the only weakness in the iTunes 11.0.3 update.

Thanks! After all the trouble I've gone to to update my whole library to minimum 900x900 pixel images so they look good at full screen resolution and then after the 11.0.3 update finding apparently no way to display them, I was beginning to curse Apple again. Why can't they leave anything alone? I'd just about got over the loss of Cover Flow and was used to clicking on the artwork box to full-screen it. Or are they trying to make it difficult on purpose? Don't they understand that a lot of us really like to have full screen artwork?

Would've made a lot more sense to let the artwork select open the max screen view like before, then tack on a command/ctrl select function to open the MiniPlayer, am I right?

Yes, KeyHook17, you are right. I don't use a miniplayer at all, but Apple thinks everyone wants one and makes it the default display when you hit the icon in the top iTunes player window. I enjoy my artwork as much as the music (sometimes more), so at least they didn't eliminate the ability to fully enlarge artwork. But like you said, they should have made the max screen view the first thing you see when you click---not the miniplayer. Fortunately, since I have Windows, I just click the Control key---and I have two of them on my keyboard.

Wow....just discovered this hugely annoying feature (lack of ability to resize artwork).

Luckily after scouring forums like this I have discovered use of the command key when clicking on the album artwork gets the Artwork size control back....but hey why make this so hidden, and in fact why not make features like this customizable so users can choose which method of operation they want?!!!

Like many others I enjoy the artwork just as much as the music, and I want to see it in large glorious high resolution. For most of my iTunes library I have large 1080x1080 sized artwork images. I want to see it.

Apple you are infuriating. Going back to small thumbnail images is like going back in time...especially when you sold me an iMac with a huge screen and huge resolution. Please sort this out and give us more control, and more options to configure iTunes how we want to use it.

The artwork is just as important part of a release as the music itself. Perhaps I should go back to vinyl and have a full 12" physical cover in front of my face!

Also...whilst you're at it....can you return to the larger artwork image in the bottom left hand corner of iTunes. [not that I expect Apple to read this or take any notice]

Has anyone lost the ability to access this expandable-mini-player functionality, where the mini-player, upon ctrl-click, shows up in the taskbar but is not actually accessible? You can't get to it, despite the fact that it is supposedly there in addition to iTunes itself. Help! Thanks.