This was not supposed to be too large an experiment. A casual encounter with a friend's iPOD Touch yesterday, provoked an interest in CoverFlow - the visual album browsing facility built into various Apple products (hardware or software). As I started reading about it, the power of collaboration, in this case between an artist and a programmer, became more and more apparent to me. Nowhere is this happening more freely than on the World Wide Web. WWW has allowed people from different backgrounds, nationalities... to interact with each other and tap into each other's brains. CoverFlow was created by an independent Macintosh developer, Jonathan del Strother, based upon a concept first introduced by the artist Andrew Coulter Enright in his blog entry "Dissatisfaction Sows Innovation" http://web.archive.org/web/20051225123312/thetreehouseandthecave.blogspot.com/2004/12/dissatisfaction-sows-innovation.html
Since, I do not have an iPOD capable of displaying CoverFlow style album art, I decided to explore it more within the iTunes software itself. I started with attempting to create an album for the movie "Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na" in iTunes that I could then visually browse through in CoverFlow fashion. The steps followed by me were -
(a) Download all the songs of the movie.
(b) Use Google Images to pick up a cool wallpaper of the movie as album art.
(c) Do a quick batch processing of all the songs of the album to ensure that all of them have the same ID3 tag information and all of them carry the newly selected album art as well.
(You can find the steps to do all this at http://lifehacker.com/software/step-by-step/maximize-coverflow-on-your-ipod-with-itunes-308023.php)
(d) Repeat the same steps for a couple of other music albums.
(e) Switch to the CoverFlow view in iTunes, maxmize the same and easily browse through the albums in a cool graphical environment.
APPLE ROCKS!!!
Since, I do not have an iPOD capable of displaying CoverFlow style album art, I decided to explore it more within the iTunes software itself. I started with attempting to create an album for the movie "Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na" in iTunes that I could then visually browse through in CoverFlow fashion. The steps followed by me were -
(a) Download all the songs of the movie.
(b) Use Google Images to pick up a cool wallpaper of the movie as album art.
(c) Do a quick batch processing of all the songs of the album to ensure that all of them have the same ID3 tag information and all of them carry the newly selected album art as well.
(You can find the steps to do all this at http://lifehacker.com/software/step-by-step/maximize-coverflow-on-your-ipod-with-itunes-308023.php)
(d) Repeat the same steps for a couple of other music albums.
(e) Switch to the CoverFlow view in iTunes, maxmize the same and easily browse through the albums in a cool graphical environment.
APPLE ROCKS!!!
