July 12, 2005
Browse iTunes by cover design - UPDATED
UPDATE - Sept 21, 2005
New feature added in version 1.3 - "CoverBuddy now lets you distribute your music collection to the network. Use any web browser to browse albums and remote control playback. It's great for office use and other areas with more than one computer, making it easy to control music playback from every machine. You're lucky if you own a Sony Playstation Portable – we built one version of the Web Interface optimized for the web browser of the PSP!" CoverBuddy promotional email
CoverBuddy's network browser
ORIGINAL POST
In our view, anything that helps cd cover design and liner notes make the transition to digital along with the music is good good good. So we like CoverBuddy. It's an app that lets you view your iTunes collection like it was a jukebox, browsing through the cd cover art designs. You click on a cover, choose a track and it plays - sweet! There's a search box just like iTunes', which can search cd title, artist, album etc. There's a full screen mode and you can actively scale the size of the covers ala iPhoto.
2 hitches - it's Macintosh only and it will not automatically retrieve cd designs from the net due to legal concerns. For automatic cover art retrieval for iTunes try M-Beat. CoverBuddy does however provide a link to the album's amazon.com page where you can drag the cover directly from the browser window.
CoverBuddy is $24.95 and M-Beat is $10.00.
Comments
This is a similar idea for Windows users:
http://www.jezbo.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/iTunesAlbumBrowser.html
I think it's better (well I would, I wrote it).
Posted by: jezbo at March 17, 2006 08:23 AM
