For the item artwork column, drag right to make the album cover larger, or leftward to make it smaller. To resize the album cover viewer displayed in the lower left corner of iTunes' main window, drag its right edge to the right to scale it up, and to the left to make it smaller. Note that when you use custom item artwork (see customizing iTunes artwork below), iTunes will automatically scale up or scale down the item's artwork, as needed, based on the dimensions of the container: both the album cover viewer and the item artwork columns can be resized manually by dragging their edge to the right or to the left. Once done, just close the artwork window to return to iTunes. To view the size options for the artwork window, right-click (Windows) or control-click (Mac) and choose a size. To view the artwork in large size, click the on artwork viewer: the artwork will open in its own window. If the album artwork viewer is in "Selected Item" mode, it will show another album cover when you click on another album with your mouse, or a the navigational keystroke on your keyboard ( End key, Home, Page Up, Page Down, Arrow Up, or Arrow Down). Since you double-click on an item to play it, iTunes will automatically display the item playing, regardless of the option you chose above (since a double-click also selects the item in question). Click the arrow head to toggle between displaying Now Playing and Selected Item. Artwork for selection or current playbackīy default, iTunes displays the artwork for the item currently playing (whether song, movie, podcast.) but iTunes can also display the artwork for the last item you clicked on. Since the last more recent versions of iTunes, you will notice that all views display items artwork: the only view that does not show your album covers is the List View, when you have manually (or accidentally!) hidden the Artwork column. Note that whether or not album covers / items artwork are available and/or visible also depends on your current iTunes view. By default, iTunes now displays the album cover / item artwork in the first column: (you can also show or hide artwork by clicking on the arrow of the album cover column) Keyboard shortcut: to show or hide iTunes artwork, hit Ctrl+G (Windows) or Command+G (Mac) - Tutorial update: in iTunes 9, this keyboard shortcut no longer toggles on or off the album cover viewer in the bottom left corner of the screen: in iTunes 9, this toggles showing or hiding the artwork column in your music library.
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The more (smart) playlists you create, the more vertical scrollable space you will need! The new, "toggle-able" album cover / item artwork column Depending on the view you are using (even more so if you are listening to music with the iTunes Mini Player), the actual album cover viewer maybe redundant: if the items artwork is displayed inside the right pane, hiding the artwork viewer will actually allow you to see more of your playlists and smart playlists. To display the artwork of the item currently playing in iTunes, choose Show Artwork from the View menu or click the " Show or hide item artwork and video viewer" button in the bottom left corner of iTunes' main window.