gHacks technology news » covers http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Display Album Covers With CD Art Display http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/29/display-album-covers-with-cd-art-display/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/29/display-album-covers-with-cd-art-display/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 10:19:20 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/29/display-album-covers-with-cd-art-display/ album coversCD 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.

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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.

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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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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/29/display-album-covers-with-cd-art-display/feed/ 6 Print Covers using Undercover XP http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/17/print-covers-using-undercover-xp/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/17/print-covers-using-undercover-xp/#comments Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:27:20 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/17/print-covers-using-undercover-xp/ Burning CDs or DVDs has a distinctive disadvantage over purchased media. The self created audio, video or data CDs and DVDs have no initial cover artwork. This makes them rather unattractive if you want to give them to someone else or put them into a rack. It probably does not matter if you just use them to backup files or burn one use audio or video CDs and DVDs but I think it does make a difference for media that you want to keep for a longer time. The key to create great front and back covers is a program that makes it as easy as possible to do so.

create covers Undercover XP is such a freeware that makes it very easy to create covers in the correct size for many different types of media. This includes covers for CDs and DVDs, DVD boxes, inlays, Playstation backs and Digital Pictures.

Just add a image in formats such as jpg, bmp, gif or png to Undercover XP and the tool will automatically resize the image to the right format for the selected media.

Undercover XP comes equipped with a format editor that makes it easy to add new formats for media that you own. Just add a new format with the exact sized that you want it to be.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/17/print-covers-using-undercover-xp/feed/ 4 Free Album Art Cover Downloader http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/15/free-album-art-cover-downloader/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/15/free-album-art-cover-downloader/#comments Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:14:25 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/15/free-album-art-cover-downloader/ Many portable media players and software players support album cover art which is displayed when a song is played from within the player. Most players unfortunately do not have a feature that automatically searches for and downloads album cover art for the album s that you have stored on your computer. One of the tools that can help you if you like to have album cover art displayed is Album Cover Art Downloader.

Album Cover Art Downloader can be downloaded for Windows, various Linux distributions and as a source code if you want to compile it for yourself. It displays a list of albums that are stored on your computer and offers the functionality to search for album art for that album. It searches Amazon, Buy.com, Yahoo and Walmart for images and displays them in a sidebar. You may pick the best image that fits and it will be automatically downloaded and added to all mp3 files that belong to that album.

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