Finding tracks on your iPhone by playlist, artist, or song is cool, but finding them with Cover Flow is even cooler. Cover Flow lets you browse your music collection by its album artwork. To use Cover Flow, turn your iPhone sideways (long edges parallel to the ground) and Cover Flow will fill the screen.

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The only time you won’t see Cover Flow while your iPhone is turned sideways is after tapping the More icon.

Sep 11, 2006  CoverFlow aims to bring that aesthetic appeal to your mp3 collection. It allows you to browse your albums complete with beautiful artwork pulled from any sources it can find, whether that's buried in your song tags, collected via Synergy, or looked up on Amazon. Oct 24, 2012  Album Flow allows you to choose and play tracks from your music library by presenting your albums in an intuitive flow of album art. Flick to scroll through the flow of albums to choose one to play. Mac because apple cannot check it for malicious software. As you change album the list of tracks will be updated, allowing you to play a track. Album art is shown in a flow across the top of the screen. Music Flow Player is an exclusive HiFi wireless audio app of LG. You can use Music Flow Player to listen to music which you listened to using your phone through LG HiFi wireless audio. You can integrate and control to play different or same songs from various places around your house such as smart phone, tablet, PC, etc. At the same time using. Apr 28, 2010  Cover Flow started life as an independent third-party add-on for iTunes, but it was purchased by Apple and has since appeared not just in iTunes, but throughout Mac OS X.

Flipping through your cover art in Cover Flow is simple. All you have to do is drag or flick your finger left or right on the screen and the covers go flying by. Flick or drag quickly and the covers whiz past; flick or drag slowly and the covers move leisurely. Or tap a particular cover on the left or right of the current (centered) cover and that cover jumps to the center.

Try it — you’ll like it! Here’s how to put Cover Flow to work for you:

• To see tracks (songs) on an album: Tap the cover when it’s centered or tap the info button (the little i) in the lower-right corner of the screen. The track list appears.

• To play a track: Tap the track name in the list. If the list is long, scroll by dragging or flicking up and down on it.

• To go back to Cover Flow: Tap the title bar at the top of the track list or tap the little i button again.

• To play or pause the current song: Tap the play/pause button in the lower-left corner.

If no cover art exists for an album in your collection, the iPhone displays a plain-looking cover decorated with a single musical note. The name of the album appears below this generic cover.

Cover Flow is an animated, three-dimensional graphical user interface element that was integrated within the Macintosh Finder and other Apple Inc. products for visually flipping through snapshots of documents, website bookmarks, album artwork, or photographs.

Cover Flow is browsed using the on-screen scrollbar, mouse wheel, gestures, or by selecting a file from a list, which flips through the pages to bring the associated image into view. On iPod and iPhone devices, the user slides their finger across the touch screen or uses the click wheel.

Apple discontinued the use of Cover Flow after settling a patent suit against Mirror Worlds. It is now absent on the Mac in everything other than 'Finder' with OS X El Capitan.^{[citation needed]} In macOS Mojave, a completely different Gallery view feature 'replaces' Cover Flow in 'Finder'.^[1] It was removed from iOS in 2015 with the release of iOS 8.4, which replaced the Music app with Apple Music.

History[edit]

Cover Flow was conceived by artist Andrew Coulter Enright^[2] and originally implemented by an independent Macintosh developer, Jonathan del Strother. Enright later named the interaction style fliptych to distinguish it from the particular Cover Flow implementation.^[3]

Cover Flow was purchased by Apple Inc. in 2006,^[4] and its technology was integrated into its music application, iTunes 7.0, which was released September 12, 2006.^[5] The name was previously 'CoverFlow' without a space.

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The last release of Steel Skies’ stand-alone application, version RC1.2, was released on September 10, 2006, and was freely distributed until the end of the next day only, however it remains available for download from MacUpdate.

On January 9, 2007, when Apple announced the iPhone, it was announced that it would incorporate Cover Flow technology.

During the WWDC Keynote on June 11, 2007, Steve Jobs announced that Cover Flow would be added as a view option in Mac OS X Leopard’s Finder.

On September 5, 2007 Apple announced that Cover Flow would be utilized in the third generation iPod nano as well as the new iPod classic and iPod touch models. Cover Flow was integrated into the fourth generation iPod nano by the use of an accelerometer which accesses Cover Flow when the iPod nano is turned horizontally on its side.

On March 14, 2008, Mirror Worlds LLC sued Apple for infringing on its patents (nos. 6006227, 6638313, 6725427, and 6768999) (Mirror Worlds, LLC, vs Apple, Inc; Texas Eastern District Court) ^[6]

On February 24, 2009, Cover Flow was also included with the public beta of Safari 4, with the final version of Safari 4, released on June 8, using Cover Flow to browse history, bookmarks, RSS feeds, Bonjour, and Address Book.

In April 2010, Apple was granted US design patent D613,300 on the Cover Flow interface.^[7]

On October 1, 2010, Apple was ordered to pay $625.5 million to Mirror Worlds LLC for infringing utility patents relating to Cover Flow.^[8][9] On April 4, 2011, Judge Davis reversed the judgement.^[10]

With the release of version 11 of iTunes, Cover Flow was removed from the iTunes interface.

iOS 7 saw Cover Flow replaced by album wall.^[11] This feature shows tiles of album art in rows when the device is in landscape.^[12] This feature was removed with the release of iOS 8.4 on June 30, 2015

In macOS Mojave, Cover Flow was removed from Finder and replaced by gallery view.

Other implementations[edit]

• The open-source media player Songbird offers a Cover Flow navigation add-on called MediaFlow.^[13]
• The open source Banshee media player also offers a Cover Flow-like add-on called ClutterFlow,^[14] which is based on the Clutter toolkit.
• The proprietary media player MediaMonkey also offers a Cover Flow add-on called MonkeyFlow.^[15] It can either be embedded or run as an external remote application.
• Using Compiz Fusion (Shift Switcher)^[16] or KDE Plasma Workspaces (Cover Switch on KWin 4.1 or later)^[17] on a Unix-like system, it is possible to switch between open applications with a Cover Flow animation.
• A Cover Flow-like interface was used by the graphical search engine Search Me.
• When selecting music or course in arcade edition of Dance Dance Revolution X2 and later, a Cover Flow-style interface is used.
• The free jukebox firmware Rockbox also implements a Cover Flow-like album art viewer, called 'PictureFlow'. However, PictureFlow is not part of the main UI, instead included as a demo.
• Reflection Music Player also implements a Cover Flow-like Music Player for the iPad Reflection Music Player with Cover Flow on iTunes
• The open source ebook managing software calibre incorporates Cover Flow to browse through ebooks' covers.
• Open source multi-system game emulator OpenEmu includes a cover flow view
• By default, the Nintendo Wiihomebrew application WiiFlow displays games in a Cover Flow-like interface.

References[edit]

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3. ^'The Fliptych Interface'.
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5. ^'Apple Purchased CoverFlow For iTunes 7'. Archived from the original on May 20, 2008.
6. ^http://dockets.justia.com/docket/texas/txedce/6:2008cv00088/108627/
7. ^'US Design Patent D613,300'.
8. ^'Apple Challenges Big Award Over Patents'. The New York Times. October 4, 2010. Retrieved October 5, 2010. Apple is challenging a jury verdict that could force it to pay as much as $625.5 million to a company founded by David Gelernter, a Yale computer science professor, for infringing three patents related to how files are displayed on the iPod, the iPhone and Macintosh computers.
9. ^Decker, Susan. 'Apple Challenges $625.5 Million Mirror Worlds Patent Verdict'. bloomberg. Retrieved October 4, 2010.
10. ^'Judge reverses $625.5 million patent judgement previously awarded to Mirror Worlds'.
11. ^Staff (2013). 'iOS 7'. Apple Inc. Retrieved December 29, 2013. Rotate your iPhone or iPod touch to browse your music with the Album Wall
12. ^Klug, Brian; Saumitra Bhagwat (November 19, 2013). 'The iOS 7 Review'. AnandTech. Retrieved December 29, 2013. The Music app also uses a red and white color scheme and has been completely revamped in iOS 7, making extensive use of transparencies and featuring a new album art wall in landscape mode.
13. ^'Songbird MediaFlow Add-on'. Archived from the original on February 2, 2013.
14. ^'Banshee ClutterFlow Add-on'.
15. ^'MonkeyFlow Add-on'.
16. ^Plugins/SwitcherArchived October 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine (Compiz Fusion Wiki), accessed October 29, 2007.
17. ^Cover switch effect on YouTube (Martin Graesslin, video)