ITunes 11 and Colors
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ITunes 11 and Colors
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#2As someone without iTunes, what does iTunes do now? There are no screenshots/videos in this article.
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#3As someone without iTunes, what does iTunes do now? There are no screenshots/videos in this article.
Here is a screenshot utilizing the colors of the album art: http://d.pr/i/st40 (Please don't judge my taste of music ;)
As you can see it also removes the border from the album art to blend it with the color.
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#4As someone without iTunes, what does iTunes do now? There are no screenshots/videos in this article.
The album view displays a color scheme based on the album artwork. The results vary from good to great, I haven't encountered any poor examples of it's application.
You can see an example here: http://daringfireball.net/misc/2012/12/itunes-11-expanded-vi...
The text, background and highlight colors are based on on the album artwork.
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#5Something similar to this was done at my old job, about four years ago. It took images that were not square and padding out the shorter dimension with an averaged colour from the edge. It looks like so:
Sometimes it works well, other times it really doesn't. But it's an interesting idea- and certainly not a new one (though Apple has certainly done it better)
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#6Good job "emulating" the iTunes algorithm. Request to op: It would have been good to have some sample code inline in the article that illustrated the algorithm. I know there's an Xcode project attached, but reading this on an iPad has its limitations.
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#7I do love that feature. I developed something like this a couple years ago for a back office part of a project:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4p5m4719ehvpohc/GUEHcYecYv
I don't have a good example of the project any longer, but I took a few snapshots during the development process. My test page allowed you to upload a logo and have the page dynamically change to match the new logo. The link above is a gallery of a few of my tests.
Sometimes it did a pretty good job. Other times the results were a little more 'meh.'
The original code was pretty hacked together in PHP and a little client side JS, though I've been considering resurrecting it as a ruby gem.
There was a bug in the code in one of these examples. The 5th image or so is of a tornado with a bright orange background. The code failed to select the orange as an interesting color to use. The result still looks fine but I would have liked for it to have sampled that bit as well. It's been long enough that I can't recall what the exact problem was.
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#8This reminds of the work @matasar and @attaboy did back in 2007 on Dabble DB:
http://blog.dabbledb.com/2007/04/white--or-green.html
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#9As someone without iTunes, what does iTunes do now? There are no screenshots/videos in this article.
It's a music manager you're forced to use on Apple hardware. It's awful for everything except automating what music goes on the device for those who don't care about what they listen to.
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#10As someone without iTunes, what does iTunes do now? There are no screenshots/videos in this article.
It's a music manager you're forced to use on Apple hardware. It's awful for everything except automating what music goes on the device for those who don't care about what they listen to.
That's not quite what the poster is asking for.