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  1. Re:Gapless Playback! by flink · · Score: 1 · on Apple Announces iTunes 7, Movies, Set-Top Box

    I've been using CoverFlow for a while now -- it used to be a separate product. It did a very good job on the initial import. IIRC, the original version searched Amazon and maybe a couple of other sites and it wouldn't replace your existing art, it would just skip those albums. I would say it got about 80% of my albums. It did the worst on electronic/techo stuff and my old Boston hardcore albums. I manually googled for the rest and after that, I flipped through the results and tried to find my own art for the really poor quality scans.

    I'm really pleased to see this get incorporated in iTunes. It's a much more pleasant way to browse your music if you enjoy listining to albums instead of flipping between tracks in an ADD-like fasion. I hope Apple compensated the author well for it.

  2. CoverFlow by earthbound+kid · · Score: 4, Informative · on Apple Announces iTunes 7, Movies, Set-Top Box

    According to the website of the old CoverFlow.app, they did in fact sell their software to Apple, and that's what's being used in iTunes 7. Good for them. I bet they're glad they didn't end up like Watson or, to a less extent, Konfabulator (though they did manage to get bought out by Yahoo!).

  3. Re:Gapless Playback! by nine-times · · Score: 1 · on Apple Announces iTunes 7, Movies, Set-Top Box

    It looks like Apple bought CoverFlow. link

  4. Re:The List by Volanin · · Score: 5, Informative · on The Ten Most Beautiful OS X Apps

    Same list, with links:

    10 - Transmission
    9 - Potion Factory
    8 - Podcast Maker
    7 - Transmit
    6 - Quinn
    5 - AppZapper
    4 - AcQuisition
    3 - CoverFlow
    2 - Newsfire
    1 - Delicious Library

  5. Well, here's something new... by Dis*abstraction · · Score: 1 · on New Windows Media Player Leaks

    If you haven't seen CoverFlow in action, do yourself a favor and check it out. Far from just eye candy, it's actually quite usable as both a browser and a quick way to find the song you're looking for. Make sure to watch the video of it in action.

    (Mac only, of course.)

  6. Re:iTunes... by abdulla · · Score: 2, Informative · on Managing a Huge Music Collection?

    iTunes is currently using 35 meg here, and I have a pretty large collection. Winamp must use something insanely small for people to be complaining so much about iTunes memory usage. CPU usage seems to be fairly low too, at 4.5%, I'm not complaining. Also nice frontends to iTunes make searching and playback even easier. Have a crack at CoverFlow.

  7. The RIAA will get "medieval on my hiney" by saha · · Score: 1 · on Music Should Be Heard But Not Understood
    Well, I bought the Weird Al "Bad Hair Day" and "Even Worse" CDs, so if I want to embed the lyrics into my AAC/MP3 files after converting my CDs to those formats, then I should be able to do so. Why not sue Gracenotes CDDB for providing the ID3 Metatag database as well. In fact I'd be happy if Gracenotes went a step further after identifying my CD to automatically embed the album cover art and the lyrics, but I bet some shmuck is going to cause a fuss about doing that. While my computer is busy ripping the CD I concurrently hunt down the cover art using the FirstRiver Sherlock plugin (Under Preferences: Enable Drag & Drop in this area). Finally using a Dashboard widget in the foreground in Mac OS X Tiger I have it automatically look up my lyrics while iTunes is playing the background and embed those lyrics, works nicely. What's to stop me from scanning my booklet with an OCR package, typing in my ID3 tags myself and finally scanning the cover art...nothing really and its fair use. If Gracenotes automates the ID3 tagging process, I can't see anything wrong with Sherlock, Watson, Dashboard, Konfabulator widgets getting lyrics and cover art for my ripped CDs as well.

    I can recommend other useful tools:
    iEatBrainz For automatically tagging music CD mixes from friends, who didn't provide any track (Artist, Song,...etc) information.
    CoverFlow Neat OpenGL Aqua Cocoa app that shows the potential for a 3D way of browsing your CDs. Gets cover art information from the internet much like the lyric widgets, when the cover art is not found in the AAC/MP3 file itself. First saw a similar example in "Project Looking Glass" from Sun Microsystems.

    My sympathies and condolences are with the pearLyrics author who didn't do anything wrong. Perhaps the RIAA should be better off suing Google for making it easier to search for lyrics. Oh yeah, thats right its hard to screw with a $120 billion company, than a single developer of free software.

    "Breaking rocks in the hot sun
    I fought the law and the law won
    I fought the law and the law won
    I needed money 'cause I had none
    I fought the law and the law won
    I fought the law and the law won

    I miss my baby and I feel so sad
    I guess my race is run
    Well she is the best girl that I ever had
    I fought the law and the law won
    I fought the law and the

    Robbin' people with a six gun
    I fought the law and the law won
    I fought the law and the law won
    I miss my baby and I miss my fun
    I fought the law and the law won
    I fought the law and the law won

    I miss my baby and I feel so sad
    I guess my race is run
    Well she is the best girl that I ever had
    I fought the law and the law won
    I fought the law and the

    I fought the law and the law won (x7)"