This posting won’t apply to most of you, since it’s very Apple-centric, but it’s something so cool, I had write about it.
I like music, and have been feeling good about music lately, probably due to the iPod. Together, Kate and I have amassed quite a collection.
I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t listen to every song, but the variety and the instantness of digizited music is pretty freaking sweet. In fact, rare is the day when I pull a CD out of a case and put it into some kind of player. That leads to one of the downsides of the whole non-physical-media thing… the non-physicalness of it. Cover art and lyric sheets use to be an enjoyable part of the music listening process. Now, when you buy a song online, or rip a CD and put it away, you don’t get as much of the visual connection with an album.
As it turns out, others feel the same way. This guy made this program called CoverFlow which allows you to browse through your music based on album cover.
It loads the images of the album covers from your own music collection (and grabs them from Amazon.com’s images). You then use the right and left arrow keys to move through the images, as if you were flipping through a collection of records. Double clicking on the album loads the music in the iTunes player.
It’s still a beta program, so sometimes it loads the incorrect music, so hopefully the program creator will update it. It’s also Mac-only, so Windows users are out-of-luck I think. A helpful program when you’re not sure what to listen to.
That is a cool app. I loaded it the other day. But I never even listen to iTunes anymore. It’s just an organizer for me. I need an album flipping cool app that actually runs on the iPod.
That would be pretty sweet on the iPod, I think the screen would need to be bigger, though. Doesn’t your color ipod show the album cover when you play the song?
I have to agree it’s a pretty cool app. It made me feel like I was really flipping through CDs.