Cover Flow goes manual

Ripped straight from OS X and made incarnate in black glossy plastic, iTunes' worst (but sexiest) music browsing interface becomes a sexy tray for the triumphant living room display of five CDs. Pick them carefully: I'd definitely leave out that Macy Gray.

Coverflow goes Manual [Yanko]

[#1 posted by pork musket , January 21, 2009 9:05 AM]

CDs make it look weird. Give me the same thing but bigger and with slots to cradle some LPs and I'd consider it.

[#2 posted by winkingskunk , January 21, 2009 3:38 PM]

I'd leave out all of those cds.

Of course, I can only tell what two of them are, but based on someone have Macy Gray AND Nelly Furtato, I'm assuming the rest would be crap too.

[#3 posted by lhopitalified , January 23, 2009 2:54 PM]

I'm not a fan of Macy Gray or Nelly Furtado either, but the 2nd album from the left is Rie Fu's "Tobira Album", which is actually quite good. (though perhaps not worth the import cost to most people)

I would have liked to see a more useful design with custom mounts where you could actually slide CD's back and forth on some sort of rack. I imagine the engineering might be quite complicated for that, especially if you wanted to be able to manually navigate through by pushing on the stack of CD's to the left or right.

A static version of cover flow just isn't all that impressive to me.