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March 19, 2007

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DockArt makes iTunes more fun

Posted Mar. 19, ’07, 11:30 AM PT by Kate Marshall
Category | iTunes

DockArt%20icon.jpgThe “album art” feature in iTunes is meant to add a little color to your iTunes library and make your songs feel less like the intangible digital files they are and more like the vinyl records that came before. Software developer Greg Weston’s DockArt offers another way to enjoy your digital album covers, if iTunes’s Cover Flow view doesn’t pack enough punch.

After installing DockArt in your iTunes’s plug-in folder, DockArt will show up as a new option under the View—>Visualizer menu. The next time you play a song with album artwork attached to it, the particular album will replace your Dock’s iTunes icon. DockArt can also display the artwork on your desktop but Weston warns that since your OS will scale it, the resulting picture might turn out a bit odd. For something a little different though, DockArt gives you something else to look at besides the usual green music note that is the iTunes icon. Myself, I still miss the purple music note for iTunes 3.0.

[Via Ars Technica]


6 Comments

Moe said:

You mean, blue music note icon. When 7.0 was released, it turned from green to blue.

March 19, 2007 12:33 PM
Dan Moren Author Profile Page said:

@Moe: Yes, it was green in iTunes 4-6, but it was purple before that (in 3.0, as Kate said), blue before that (a different shade than iTunes 7), and used an entirely different style of note before that.

Here's the timeline (everything pre 7.0)

http://www.techmanifesto.com/archives/2005/09/08/the-itunes-icon-timeline/

March 19, 2007 12:38 PM
Kate Marshall said:

@Dan and Moe: Yes, I was referring to iTunes 3.0. I have a weakness for purple, even in my software icons.

March 19, 2007 3:46 PM
Teilas said:

I believe Moe was referring to this comment:

DockArt gives you something else to look at besides the usual green music note that is the iTunes icon.

For most users the "usual" music note will be blue, not green.

March 19, 2007 3:58 PM
Dan Moren Author Profile Page said:

@Teilas: Whoops, right indeed. I misread Moe's comment. Sorry Moe!

March 19, 2007 4:18 PM
Kate Marshall said:

It would seem that I'm color blind when it comes to green vs. blue. Uh oh. My apologies.

March 19, 2007 4:21 PM

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