CD Art Display is an interesting application that can display music album covers on the computer desktop independently from the music player. It is compatible with a wide variety of music players including iTunes, Winamp, Foobar, Windows Media Player.
The program will automatically display the covers of the currently playing song in its interface. Next to the cover are information about the title, artist, album, playing time and basic controls to start, stop and skip songs. Several player specific options are available in the menu including rating songs or adding them to playlists.
The program will use the covers that are available in the music player or folder of the music. It has options to search for album covers which is helpful if no cover art is available for the selected song or album. The covers can then be easily added to the album.
The window can be set to be always on top, locked or pinned to the desktop. CD Art Display is highly configurable and comes with its own skin repository at Deviant Art which contains dozens of skins for the player.
The options are extensive. Users who hide the taskbar will be glad that the balloon tips that appear in the system tray can be disabled. It is also possible to add additional cover directories or make the program download covers automatically from sources like Amazon.
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Oh my God, ‘The Four Horsemen’?
Again: Oh my God :) haven’t heard that one in years.. Something I’ll definitely change tonight ^^
this is one of the very best one-man freeware projects of the last few years. the developer is very dedicated, and has done a wonderful job putting this together.
a few more features not mentioned in the article:
- full hotkey support for controlling your media player (even itunes)
- skinnable lyrics window complete with lyrics search engine (saves lyrics to database though, not to id3 tags…)
- excellent skinning engine built in, making it easy to adjust existing skins or create your own.
- full screen skins and built-in screensaver feature for showing off album art. great for parties!
- slideshow feature can cycle through a user-specified folder of images if no music is playing.
probably more that i’m forgetting. just download it and see :)
How do i use this?
How about working with VLC player – one of the best and most common?