CoverFlow: I knew that looked familiar

Yes, congratulations to the coverflow team - for selling out to the highest bidder. They could have chosen to sell to a company that would keep the beautiful app intact and continue to develop it, rather than strip it down to a pale ghost of what CoverFlow used to be. But Apple offered more money, and we lose a beautiful app. Well done, fellas! Enjoy your 30 pieces of silver!

People, we users LOST this one. Don't congratulate these people!

Integrated cover flow is great, it was very pretty before but not very useful really, now it's integrated into iTunes it's really come into its own. Congrats to the CoverFlow team, now when will we get integrated LAME encoding?

P.S. Apart from cover flow the rest of the UI changes make be want to puke (well ok, it's not quite that bad), please bring back beautiful Aqua blue!!!

Coverflow was created by Catfish from the Arstechnica forums. I think he released that very last version before iTunes7 as a thank you to all the people who had been using his betas. He's been strangely silent at the Ars forums - presumably because he too busy rolling in dough.

He also has a wicked iTunes visualizer at his steelskies website.

OK, the only thing(s) I know Apple ripped off for a fact was Watson with Sherlock and maybe System Restore with Time Machine. But, what else did they "rip off"??

For #8 TUSH:

To consolidate albums by various artists or even albums where a song features another artist, highlight the whole album and then right-click > Get Info. Now Click the INFO tab and there is a spot for album artist. For compilations simply put Various Artist, or for, say a CD that features other artist on one or two songs, put the main artist. After you do that press enter and it will consiladte what appeared to be doubles because of seperate artist into one album cover.

anyone know if there is any way to import album art from cover flow to itunes 7?

Congratulations CoverFlow!! I'm glad to see Apple didn't just take it. :)

I dislike how the functionality to seperate entre CDs into the "Coverflow" playlist was lost.

Anyone know of a fix?

Congrats to the guy who created CoverFlow!

According to iusethis.com CoverFlow RC1.2 was released not a week or so ago but 2 days ago(I didn't think it was that long ago that I downloaded it). Any body have any ideas on why? Are they continuing their app even after the purhcase by Apple?

If I'm correct, did'nt these guy(s) just release a RC1 version of CoverFlow just a week or so ago? That's fairly odd, and I doubt it was a last minunte purchase for Apple,ie being incorporated throughout iTS. Maybe they just did it to allow Apple's introduction of it a complete suprise. Or maybe I'm wrong all together and RC1 was released a long time ago, and I just did'nt realize it.