Clutter: a Visual UI to iTunes

One of the Safari developers put together a visual interface to your iTunes collection called Clutter.

[ from the developer's Live Journal ] The reason I wrote it is that I find that iTunes organizes stuff too neatly. When I buy music on CD, I keep the newish and in-vogue CDs lying around on my desk or on top of the stereo for a while. Then when I’m deciding what to listen to, my eye will be caught by one of them and I’ll decide to play it. But nowadays, when I either get music in MP3 form (from eMusic or epitonic) or rip the CD and file it away, the only reminder of its existence is in iTunes, and I find that the new stuff vanishes away in a huge alphabetical list of everything I already have. And besides, I really like cover art and miss not having it around anymore.

Clutter looks up albums on Amazon.com, and creates a clickable image of the cover, playing an album from iTunes is transformed from scanning a list of albums to scanning a stack of cover art, something we’ve grown up with. Piles, anyone?

Note this was originally linked from the developer’s Live Journal on 10 January 2003. However, he didn’t expect to get blogged, and consequently asked (nicely) for me to delist it until an official release.

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