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NeonDev 
one question. how do you plan on matching up the extracted album art from the .itc files to a particular song? that was my problem with using them.
that part should actually not be that hard. what i am doing is parsing through the .itc byte by byte and extracting the data that is contained inside. one piece of data is the persistentId. this matches up to the persistentId that shows up in the itunes xml for a particular song/album.
another approach that i am contemplating is taking the image data out of the .itc file and saving it as .jpg or .png in a seperate folder that the app can the access quicker. this means that the app only has to go through your directory and access your .itc files once and then everything will be set up to use.
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the .itc files themselves are actually quite easy to display as images just not easy to match to a particular song.
now i have the first part working great where i can read all the data in the file my problem is displaying the pic. what are you doing to display the actual picture?
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nice work on the cover flow tho. I'm surprised to see that feature in an app that is not 10.5 only and not even written in xcode.
that is just the beauty of flash and the newly released flex. but i cannot take credit for the cover flow mechanism itself. it was an open source component that i borrowed the code from and implemented with some minor changes in functionality.
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I have been contemplating adding coverflow to NBB but it feels laborsome to scroll through a large library.
it would be laborsome if you are having to click through, i agree. for my personal use, and im sure this carries over for many other users, but i use a scroll wheel from griffin that can emulate key presses which makes scrolling through the cover flow much nicer and acutally much easier in a car environment. but i have the feature in such a way that you do not have to use cover flow if you find that it is to cumbersome. you can order by artist, then album, then song if you so choose.
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have you implemented a way to filter which songs/artists/albums are included in the cover flow?
as of right now the plan is to have the cover flow be an album view only, much like it is done in iTunes. it will list all the albums in your library according to artist in alphabetical order. it wouldn't be too terribly difficult to add a sort feature for songs, artists, etc. but that will have to come at a later time.