I keep my covers in the dir with the music, most often there is more than one image (front.jpg, back.jpg for ex.)
after I add the dir to amarok it takes the firsts image by default (in this case, back.jpg and not front.jpg)
when I right click set cover to front.jpg, back.jpg is then completely and forever deleted from the directory.
should this be happening?

Fixed in SVN.

This was, btw, a feature actually requested by a user. Shows how different tastes are.

feature? if someone actually wanted the app to delete files unknowingly to the user they should go with iTunes!

thanks for fixing it.

First of all thanks for a fantastic player, amarok is THE player
I lost some album art on this "feature" as well, but as I'm a newbie to linux i don't understand what you mean with "its fixed in svn"?
I have debian unstable and run amarok 1.4.4 and this feature is still here, is there a way to get a even newer version without having to compile it myself?
thanks

It means it will be fixed in 1.4.5. So you have to wait a bit (some time this month).