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Q: How do I shrink the album covers in Albums?

I want to look through album names but when I click Albums it shows gigantic album covers so that only two show on the screen at once (Windows 7 1920x1080 Full HD resolution).

 

This means I only see two albums per screen and that's A LOT of scrolling.

 

How do I see just a list of the albums with a little thumbnail like iTunes used to do? It used to show me maybe 2 dozen albums per page and was a lot less scrolling.

Posted on Oct 21, 2016 7:28 AM

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Q: How do I shrink the album covers in Albums?

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  • by hhgttg27,

    hhgttg27 hhgttg27 Oct 21, 2016 1:30 PM in response to dhinged
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    Oct 21, 2016 1:30 PM in response to dhinged

    Can you post a screenshot to illustrate the issue?  The sizing of images in Albums view did change a few releases back, but I'm typically seeing 6 or 7 albums per row:

    albums view.jpg

    (this on a 1600x900 monitor).

  • by cjahn50,

    cjahn50 cjahn50 Oct 21, 2016 1:49 PM in response to dhinged
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    Oct 21, 2016 1:49 PM in response to dhinged

    If you're displaying by Artist, you'll get the giant covers (they're almost as big as the actuall cd ). And yes, there's only a couple display at a time. If you display by Albums, you'll get more covers as shown in the photo in this thread and you can increase the number displayed by resizing the iTunes window. I could find no way to resize any of the artwork in any of the views. The size of the cover art when you open an album is giant as well.

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    dhinged dhinged Oct 21, 2016 6:19 PM in response to hhgttg27
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    Oct 21, 2016 6:19 PM in response to hhgttg27

    I switched to List view because typically that shows 10 or more albums per screen on most interfaces, but iTunes only shows two on a desktop screen.

     

    http://i.imgur.com/2Htg6rX.png

     

    So Grid view shows the most albums per screen? It's still kind of painful compared to the old List view (which showed dozens of albums per screen from what I remember way back on like version 10.7 or something), because I don't really need to see the details of the album cover (and many are missing even after getting info) and I have to read them left to right then down instead of just down the titles... just a nuisance.

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    dhinged dhinged Oct 21, 2016 6:21 PM in response to cjahn50
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    Oct 21, 2016 6:21 PM in response to cjahn50

    cjahn50, it's displaying by album, which I mention when I said "I click Albums"

  • by hhgttg27,

    hhgttg27 hhgttg27 Oct 21, 2016 7:21 PM in response to dhinged
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    Oct 21, 2016 7:21 PM in response to dhinged

    Yes, the artwork images in Albums / List view are somewhat on the large side, and can neither be resized nor turned off.  The layout and spacing of track listings makes this view doubly wasteful of screen real estate, especially if you can't even see all the content of an album without scrolling, e.g.:

    2016-10-21 22_20_17-iTunes.jpg

    You could submit an issue via Apple's iTunes feedback page, though support for this kind of UI flexibility was - by intention, I assume - removed from iTunes many releases ago.

  • by cjahn50,

    cjahn50 cjahn50 Oct 22, 2016 10:06 AM in response to dhinged
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    Oct 22, 2016 10:06 AM in response to dhinged

    Sorry. You have my apologies. I use Albums / Grid view. Indeed, in list view, the artwork is huge and cannot be changed.

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    dhinged dhinged Oct 23, 2016 2:20 PM in response to hhgttg27
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    Oct 23, 2016 2:20 PM in response to hhgttg27

    Thanks for the suggestion, but why would Apple intentionally remove this kind of UI flexibility?

     

    Here's a "normal" list (the way I've seen in most apps over the years) which shows a lot of album titles and covers per screen for a nice balance readability and minimized scrolling:

    doubleTwist - Albums list.png

    Also here is its grid view, which at least shows 4 albums per screen (when it could show 3 per line though and still see good album cover detail) and is more sensible than iTunes (which is on the same resolution on a bigger screen):

     

    doubleTwist - Albums grid.png

  • by hhgttg27,

    hhgttg27 hhgttg27 Oct 23, 2016 3:01 PM in response to dhinged
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    Oct 23, 2016 3:01 PM in response to dhinged

    No-one here knows Apple's rationale for making changes to iTunes (or any other of its products) but it may be a reasonable assumption that they are responding to a user demographic for which the focus is on songs and playlists, not on albums.

  • by dhinged,

    dhinged dhinged Oct 24, 2016 5:12 AM in response to hhgttg27
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    Oct 24, 2016 5:12 AM in response to hhgttg27

    I guess I don't understand how focusing on songs and playlists requires making albums difficult to peruse. This isn't a case of neglect, they literally changed how albums view so there's less information on screen and requires more scrolling, which to me isn't about focusing on songs and playlists, it's just about bad user-unfriendly design.