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Is there a hidden preference for Front Row that will force it use the artwork for the mp3 it is actually playing, instead of the artwork for the album it belongs to?
Obviously I could retag my whole library to delete the album metadata for each single, but that's hardly an ideal solution.
Background: I have painstakingly added artwork to my iTunes library - not just per album, but per song. In other words, if I have a 40 song compilation, every single mp3 has a matching jacket for that song. So, after having done all this work, it irritates me that Front Row insists on plastering all 40 songs with the same "album" artwork... and since it designates the artwork for Track 1 as the "album artwork" it makes less sense still; the track 1 artwork will not even be for the same artist as the rest of the tracks on the album.
AFAIK there's no way round this. – U62 – 2009-07-24T12:17:24.040
What you're doing isn't common-denominator behavior of many/most Mac (or even PC?) users, so it's not something Apple is going to easily support, if at all. Front Row probably isn't the droids you're looking for to solve this problem, perhaps a 3rd party full-screen player will do what you want. – jtimberman – 2009-07-27T05:00:21.587
@jtimberman You are correct that Apple is unlikely to add this as a public feature - but a hidden preference seems plausible since the functionality might already exist (it is more involved to write code that finds the first track of the same album and get its artwork, than it is to just display artwork for the current song). Eg: if alpha versions of FrontRow worked this way, a hidden preference wouldn't waste any dvelopment time. – username – 2009-07-27T17:21:17.420