Ha! As soon as I found out about CoverFlow (cool OS X utility that lets you browse through your CD collection, with lovely 3D effects), I thought it was a shame it didn’t take song ratings into account, and damn would it be cool to have a program display all my albums with an average rating of three stars or more, especially now that I’ve got 100GB of music.

Well, turs out CoverFlow can do just that — only instead of an easily accessible and easily changeable menu option it’s in the preferences and you won’t find it if you don’t look for it (I know I didn’t, until today).

Now I can really browse a collection of my favorite records as if I were looking through my shelves — allowing me to rediscover records I had forgotten, whereas with Clutter I ended up only listening to the twenty or so records I had thought to put on my desktop.

I still wish there was a way to move through the collection faster, like having the covers form a two-dimensional matrix that moves faster as your mouse moves toward the edges, but… ooh, the scrollwheel works, too!

Now why exactly doesn’t Front Row look and work just like this?

 

# 2006-05-27 21:09:15