CoverFlow11
Missing CoverFlow after upgrading to iTunes11?
Please try CoverFlow11 who will bring the very apple way to explore your music collections back to you.
What is CoverFlow11?
CoverFlow11 is a little app residing on your status bar. You can easily control all your artworks by scrolling the touchpad with two fingers or just click the mouse. Everything is that easy with CoverFlow11.
Download Link:
You can also download CoverFlow11 from MacUpdate
Features:
CoverFlow11 is still in demo version and we will add new features from time to time.
- CoverFlow11 will load all your albums and show them in CoverFlow.
- You can scroll the touchpad or click with your mouse to explore all your albums.
- You can double click one album to make iTunes to play the album.
- You can single click one album to go through the song list of the album, and make iTunes play the song you like. You can also scroll the list use the touchpad.
- The song list is just like that of iTunes 11, different color with different albums.
- CoverFlow11 provides easy access to contolling the iTunes.
- Play/Pause current song.
- Pay next song.
- Play previous song.
- Change sound volumn.
- Right click the icon in the status bar to pop over the menu, from where you can open the preference window (*Not implement yet*) or quit CoverFlow11.
Update History:
| Date | Version | What's New |
|---|---|---|
| 2013-1-3 | 1.0 (110) | Add song list function. Now it's easy for you to play any song in the album. The song list is just like the one of iTunes 11, but because of a different algorithm, its color is sometimes different from that of iTunes 11. |
| 2012-12-28 | 1.0 (102) | Fix the bug sometimes previous or next track button doesn't work. Optimize the display quality of cover items. Optimize the memory usage. |
| 2012-12-27 | 1.0 (101) | Fix the bug when the album doesn't have a cover, CoverFlow11 will show no artwork rather than show the default artwork. |
| 2012-12-26 | 1.0 (100) | Fix the bug when loading large iTunes library ,CoverFlow11 will consume large memory. Optimize the dispatch of Apple Event. |
What Will Be Done Next?
- High speed cache between iTunes and CoverFlow11.
- Fix the bug that if no song is playing then you select one album and reopen CoverFlow11, CoverFlow 11 will forget your previous selection. (From Aurora Wong)
- Improve Color11 Module. Color11 is a module which will analyze the color of the picture and calculate three color which will act as the background color, foreground text color and secondary text color of the song list.
Screenshots:
Special Thanks:
- User Seth Thompson from stackoverflow. The algorithm of Color11 Module is mainly based on Setj Thompson's algorithm posted on stackoverflow. link.
- User @luisespinoza from Github. I learned a lot from his project LEColorPicker on how to implement Seth Thompson's algorithm in Cocoa Touch. link.