A few things I’ve managed to dig up about Cover Flow, Apple’s cover art browsing component for iTunes:

• cover art is not portable between Macs and/or libraries
• iT 7 built-in artwork finder is often inaccurate, and never complete
• if it’s the wrong image, use Ctr-Click -> Clear Downloaded Artwork
• if your music is sorted by artist, movie soundtracks and other compilations will have [number of tracks on the album] positions in the jukebox, one for each track
• you can take the if you want it done right… approach

And then there’s artwork and album versioning. Different labels can and do release their own versions of albums, complete with different artwork (and many times different tracks, but that’s a result of the album’s production).

I think the only ones of us who can look forward to perfect Cover Flow artwork are the Britney-and-Janet buying crowd. But an imperfect technology can still be a joy to use, and seeing artwork for my music that I haven’t seen since I lost the CD jewel case is fun. And the visual analogy gives us a new method of choosing music.

It’s imperfect, but I like it.