xCoverBuddy is a visual music browser for your iTunes music collection. As a standalone application CoverBuddy indexes your music data, groups tracks by album, and displays your collection as "real" albums complete with cover art. Browse, select and play your music directly from CoverBuddy. Because CoverBuddy uses iTunes to play your music, it works with all your MP3 files as well as with songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store.
CoverBuddy's features include a full screen mode which is great for parties or embedded audio / video systems, like in cars. It also boasts sophisticated filtering and search methods that let you arrange your albums by artist, genre, year, etc., easily and on the fly. In addition users can completely customize the overall appearance of CoverBuddy to compliment their personal collection.
With the unregistered CoverBuddy, you can use all features, but launch is delayed and cover art is overlayed. Registering CoverBuddy removes those limitations.
joergp said: "Sorry, no windows version yet. Seems there would be a market for a PeeCee version ;-)"
Hmm... That's cool... It reminds me of a pretty version of this link
Obviosly a fully developed piece of software. But please please please give us this for the Windows world. (When the PS3 comes out, will we need a PC in our media center anymore? I think the PSP and PS3 do this stuff nativly, but that's a ways off.)
Ugh you bleeding heart wannabehipcoolandtrendy Mac Zealots make me ill. No matter how much you rant and rave about it. Guess what? Nobody cares! OK. I feel better now. :-)
Hmmm. As far as I can tell, the only thing that would make this useful would be if it actually put the album art in the ID tags for the song files. That way they would show up on the PSP or iPod without having to use the Coverbuddy web interface at home.
theazhrei said: "Hmmm. As far as I can tell, the only thing that would make this useful would be if it actually put the album art in the ID tags for the song files. That way they would show up on the PSP or iPod without having to use the Coverbuddy web interface at home.
That would make it worth the money in my eyes."
I use iTunes to manage my music and I have cover art for all of my songs (I just use a live picture or band logo if it's not really an album). I then point sonicstage at my iTunes music folder and tell it to find music. Then I sync my music to the PSP, converting it to ATRAC3 96kbs on the fly (which sounds just as good as a 128 MP3.
Album art and everything transfers to the PSP. I can see it when the song is playing.
I use iTunes to manage my music and I have cover art for all of my songs (I just use a live picture or band logo if it's not really an album). I then point sonicstage at my iTunes music folder and tell it to find music. Then I sync my music to the PSP, converting it to ATRAC3 96kbs on the fly (which sounds just as good as a 128 MP3.
Album art and everything transfers to the PSP. I can see it when the song is playing.
I use Napster for downloads now, I figured out how to convert to get around DMR and still have full title, cover art, all that. Im not familiar with sonicstage, but can I download it free & with Napster would that do what you just described Pete?
I don't actually download music. I just rip my CDs. In fact, I don't even know if the Apple Lossless format allows album art in the tag. I guess that should be the first thing I look at. I do know that the PSP won't play the lossless files so I'll need to transcode my collection for that. I'll probably only do a few dozen albums anyway. The rest of them are fine on the iPod, though they need to get that working a little better.
Buddha... I dont know how napster organizes it's music, but since the ID tags in MP3 are more or less standard, it should work.
You need SonicStage 3.2... Just make sure you have the setting check so SonicStage does not do any editing to physical names of files (it would screw it up for napster or itunes or whatever). Also, if you delete something in SonicStage, tell it not to remove the file (it asks) as it would delete it forever.
I use iTunes and any changes I make are carried over to sonicstage as it reads the ID tags in the music files. Now if you did some major editing to your music library, you may need to delete everything in SonicStage (telling it not to delete the files) and rescan your music folder.
All I do is open sonicstage, say scan for new music. If I added some new albums it takes a few seconds then it's in sonicstage. Then just say transfer to PSP. Works awesome.
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