on 29/04/03 22:42, Ryan Jay Schotte at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2003-04-29 01:26, "Brad Helden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Don't know if this has been mentioned here but I just got this >> posting off the Macusers Group in Tokyo and thought it might be of >> interest here. >> >> - >> Clutter is a pleasantly small freeware OS X application that fetches >> the album cover of your current iTunes song from Amazon.com and puts >> it in a brushed aluminum window on your desktop and in your dock. >> Drag the album cover out onto your desktop, and you now have another >> way to select your music... just double click the desired album cover >> and iTunes starts on a playlist of the album. >> >> http://www.sprote.com/clutter/ > > Hmm... Odd, a little hidden function for holding album covers has been added > to iTunes 4. > > Just wish Clutter integrated with it. From the website it doesn't sound like > it does. > > Later, > > Ry > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
for what it's worth (having not tried iTunes4 or clutter yet I'm not in a position to comment), I saw this: > for cover art of all those tunes you did not buy from apple the best solution > is clutter [sprote.com] a freeware app that works with itunes. it auto lookups > the cover art using amazon.com. it has some other feeatures too. but mainly it > works slightly better than the one built into itunes since it does a more > successful job of recognizing when two songs belong to the same album and > avoids storing the cover art twice. > > if you want to drag the cover art from clutter into itunes here is a procedure > I recomend--I wish I could automate it. 1) open itunes and create a smart > playlist of all track=1 tunes to get one tune from every album. 2) click on > cover art display where it says "selection" and it will change to "now > playing", 3) in the finder open ~/Library/Images/com.sprote.clutter/CDs and > sort it by date. > > now iterate the following, start playing the first song in your smart > playlist, clutter will fetch the album cover, the finder will show a folder > containing a jpeg. drag this to the album art in itunes, press command -> to > move to the next song in itunes. rinse lather repeat. the only proble I > encoutered was as I said in some cases itunes cant figure out that two songs > are from the same album. > > if you need high res cover art go to walmart's web site. full post at: <http://features.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=62547&threshold=1&commentsort= 0&tid=188&tid=141&tid=107&tid=187&mode=thread&cid=5845850> Hope it helps Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Fax: +61 8 9841 6137 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
