How can I force Front Row to show me *single* artwork instead of *album* artwork?

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.


I have found that to avoid being driven insane by iTunes, you have to completely give up trying to do things the way you want, and do them the way it wants.

Why do you have tracks that are from the same 'album' but have different album artwork? (I guess you are trying to keep singles grouped using the album name they come from, but preserving their singles artwork?)

iTunes won't let you have it both ways, you will either have to change all the Album names to show them as different releases, or give in and have one album with one piece of album artwork.

Actual compilation albums are easier to deal with. (Having different Artists under the same Album name). Just make sure that the 'Part of a compilation' checkbox is unchecked and iTunes shouldn't count them as belonging to the same album.