Freelance Propaganda

Clutter is manna from above

So iTunes is great and so is the convenience of buying CDs online. It’s all there organized alphabetically and searchable.

But who ever searched their music collection. Fuck that. When you want to play a CD you glance over to the shelf and grab the one that piques your interest. Cover art shows the mood of the music on the CD. New purchases get high rotation and are lying near the CD player, so they get high rotation and so on.

Clutter brings visual music management to OS X and I fucking love it. It is even better with Exposé—-I just hit F9 and I can see a selection of my recent purchased CD covers lying around, in a Clutter, on my desktop … Double-click one and the CD starts to play.

Not only that but it is a webservices app to lookup album art from Amazon—-and it imports it to iTunes. In fact it is a perfect example of the ‘glueness’ that is fueling the Webservices hype. This app glues iTunes with Amazon.com album art search and OS X to bring it all a quantum leap forward.

It’s one of those apps, like Launchbar that I was so happy with that before I finished my first session with it I was rushing to the website to pay up. But Clutter is free—-and there ain’t even a donation button. Oh well I will just sit back and enjoy the tunes!