music

Get the older iTunes album view back

Sunday, September 14th, 2008
by lepton

Apple iTunes version 8 added a new Album Cover Grid View that shows many album covers, but doesn’t list the songs. Want the iTunes 7 style Album view back? It’s still there, but hidden. Here’s how to get it.

The View control near the upper right corner of the iTunes window controls the main view type for your music.

iTunes View Control

The middle of the control used to show an Album view that had the album cover on the left side, and a list of songs to the right of the cover. This was replaced by the new Album Grid view in iTunes 8. The grid view simply shows all the album covers so you can scan through them quickly. The old Album view is still available.

To see the old Album view, switch to the List view, which appears when you click on the left part of the iTunes View Control. Now, in the very leftmost column header, where the tunes are numbered, there is a tiny triangle. Click it, and it toggles between the List view and the old Album view!

iTunes old Album View

In this picture, you can see the triangle to the left of the word “Artwork”. It toggles between List and Album views.