iTunes Tip: Force Artwork to Display No Matter How Many Tracks in an Album
With iTunes 10′s new Album List view, you may find that if you have fewer than five tracks (for medium-sized artwork, three tracks for small, or seven tracks for large), no artwork displays. I’m a visual guy, and I like to see my artwork all the time, especially because I have a lot of albums with few tracks, since I tag many classical works as albums.
So, you can force the artwork to display no matter what. For each library or playlist where you want to do this, choose View > Always Show Artwork.
I’d prefer the way it was before, where you could choose the size of the artwork by changing the column width, and I find the “large” size still a bit small. But at least there’s a way to see artwork all the time.
I wish they had this as a global preference-that would be more useful, I think, than having to do this for each playlist separately. Thanks Kirk!
Assumedly this feature is there to improve performance, though, since Artwork is basically the #1 performance draw in iTunes from what I have seen.