Aaron Cooper points out in the General Discussion Forum that iTunes 7 has an awesome new feature called Coverflow.  I'm sure at first most will write it off as simply more eye candy; however, I really like this new visual jukebox "flip through" feature.  As anyone who used to flip through a large album or CD collection can attest, there's a lot of emotion tied to cover art that just doesn't translate well to text.  I'd really like to see something like this added to amarok.

What's YOUR opinion? 

I think it's nice (my opinion is only based on some screenshots though) but that there are other things that should have priority, such as multiple collections, tabbed playlists and maybe a better cover manager (which possibly could be integrated with that coverflow thingy somehow) - but that's just my opinion and everyone has his own preferences, of course.

I agree with stokedfish about the features that would be awesome to have over coverflow (which by the way is around for years now, not in iTunes but as its own app).
Never forget to come up with new ideas, just copying from other ups will render a app a clone, I guess there are ways to introduce new icandy stuff (e.g. for the cover manager, though I do not know exactly why, I am fine with it) that's even better and cooler.

I am sure that there are more worthy priorities and I agree that innovation can get stifled by simply cloning functions from other programs.  However, I don't think it hurts to model some features after good ideas in other program (after all M$ has made a living out of stealing others ideas  )...to be truthful...that's currently how 90% of the software today got to be somewhat standardized.  Yes, think "out of the box", ABSOLUTELY! But, then again, don't dismiss a new feature simply because it isn't yours (<--- I mean that collectively, not specifically in response to Marcel  )  Amarok is a great program and I have no doubt that the developers will continue to be innovative in it's creation.

Edit: I didn't know Coverflow had been around as a stand-alone app.  I guess Apple is taking lessons from M$ 

gandalf2041 wrote:Edit: I didn't know Coverflow had been around as a stand-alone app.  I guess Apple is taking lessons from M$ 

Not really, from the original website they bought the "technology", so that's fine.
I am just not sure if I would need this feature at all or if someone could thing of something even cooler.

Well, I think I can answer the NEED part   It's eye candy for sure but, I'll bet the Community can come up with something cooler.

The one thing I really love about coverflow is the possibilty to play an album by double-clicking the cover. It's just more "Real-Music-Collection-Feeling" than searching the available albums by scrolling through titles... I tried iTunes 7, looked through my albums and thought: "Wow, it's really fun, to select an album by cover, it's like looking through my vinyl-collection..." then my girlfriend came in the room and said: "Oh what's that? Can I have something like this on my computer?" ... I think it's not just eye-candy-stuff, but it's definitely a cool usability-feature, to be able to play an album by selecting it's cover...
I think this would be a real good feature for the cover manager...  Should not be to hard to implement should it?

Oh... I just figured out one little thing. What about the possibility to show the Album-Covers in the COllection? Maybe 50x50 Pixels? Would be cool, I think...