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 LadyInque
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Fri Nov 05, 2010 9:55 am Post subject: Full-screen album cover playlist |
 
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I realize I probably did a bad job describing my idea in the subject line, so here go more words and a picture.
When I listen to music through iTunes, I can toggle on something called "Cover Flow." This shows the covers of the music to which I'm listening, and they slide across the screen like one of them ol' fashioned jukeboxes. Another click, and this visual parade comes on full screen. For those of you unfamiliar with this functionality, here is a screengrab from my computer.
This feature is useful if I'm sitting across the room from my computer and suddenly wonder, "Hey. What the heck album is this?" Since laziness prevents me from walking over there, I can just glance and identify the album, even without my glasses.
So I was wondering if something like that could be done here. Like a web page that shows the cover art of the current song in the queue, plus the one previous and the one to follow. It doesn't have to be huge — we have, what, 500x500 album images here? — and it doesn't have to be a great resolution.
I have the feeling this would be a very simple page to encode, grabbing the ASINs from the queue page. I could probably program this myself if I had slightly more than the very basic HTML skills I possess. But I don't. |
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Twopop
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Sat Nov 06, 2010 7:34 am Post subject: |
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I like it!  |
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 NessySheep
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Sat Nov 06, 2010 10:18 am Post subject: |
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I like it too !
(we could all guess that this is your iTunes  so much Batman...) |
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 Angel
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Sat Nov 06, 2010 11:18 am Post subject: |
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I like it very much 
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ZeframCochrane
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Sat Nov 06, 2010 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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I like it very,very much 
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LadyInque
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Sat Nov 06, 2010 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| NessySheep wrote: |
| (we could all guess that this is your iTunes so much Batman...) |
Not just Batman... animated Batman. And I did that on purpose. |
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 masked_platypus 
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Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:30 am Post subject: |
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| LadyInque wrote: |
Not just Batman... animated Batman. And I did that on purpose. |
Yeah, there is quite a symetry between the left and right cover
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 Dutchbat
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Sun Nov 07, 2010 4:52 am Post subject: |
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Absolutely in favor of having a cover flow.
Great idea LadyInque.
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zgurl49
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Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:46 am Post subject: |
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Love this idea LadyInque!
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Luther_III
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Mon Nov 08, 2010 11:50 am Post subject: |
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That's a cool idea, indeed. I wonder if it could be implemented as part of or in parallel with a 'mobile' version of the site, which I know is in high demand. (I myself still refuse to purchase a smart-phone. I like being simply unreachable from time to time.)
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 j2brown
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Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:53 am Post subject: |
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You know that smart phones can be turned off, Luther_III.
jeff
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Luther_III
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Wed Nov 10, 2010 11:49 am Post subject: |
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| You know that smart phones can be turned off, Luther_III. |
Hmmm, no smart phone owner I've ever met seems to know that.
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j2brown
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Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:59 am Post subject: |
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Well, they're called "smart phones" not "phones for smart people" for a reason, I guess.
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Dutchbat
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Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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My Smart Phone, I f I had one, wouldn't turn itself on
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