One of my main fears with the passing of music from CD to MP3 was losing out on the nice covers and album art that I so much enjoyed when buying CDs. When everything is digital, what’s the point of having album covers? Well contrary to belief, album art still has a life in the digital age, and probably a better one than before. Take for example Cover Flow in iTunes. It’s a great way to browse through your album covers quickly and it really looks cool on your desktop. While to me it probably is currently the best way to appreciate album covers, you can find other jukebox-like application that allow you to look through your tracks via album covers. Here are a few of these applications along with the best third party iTunes album cover importers:
- Desktop Album Display – Shows your album covers on your desktop. Just click on any one of them to launch the album.
- iTunes Album Browser – Analyze your iTunes collection by sifting through album covers.
- AlbumPlayer – Manage your playlists by album covers.
- Album Cover Finder – Find all the artwork for your tracks and import it to iTunes.
- Album Cover Art Downloader – Retrieve album covers from anywhere on the net and send them to your music player.
- iAlbumArt – An iTunes-like interface to quickly find album art.
- iTunes Art Importer – Automatic integration with iTunes.
- CD Art Display – Show album covers of tracks you’re listening to on your desktop.
- Box Easy Jukebox – Access your songs by their album cover.
- eJukebox – Graphically browse through your music collection.
