Cover Stream iTunes utility adds mini-flow mode

There seems to be a trend of creating an add-on app for iTunes that displays the current song on your desktop. CoverSutra is the app that most recently received the hype through the MacHeist bundle – I use it all the time and I love it’s sleek and simple interface. The Last.fm integration is what sold it for me, though.

Another great iTunes desktop app is Cover Stream (similar names seem to be a trend, too). This costs just $14.95 from the developer’s website, and has the basic feature that you’d expect from it. One neat feature that Cover Stream has that the others don’t have is a new thing they call “mini flow”. It’s basically a mini CoverFlow of all your iTunes albums on your desktop.

You can scroll through them the same way you would in iTunes or even Leopard’s finder. When you find an album you like, double-click it and it will start to play – simple. Other updates in version 1.2 is the new status window, jewel case artwork, volume indicator and colored text. Snarb.tk has fixed bugs, including some potential crashes, and has corrected an issue with album titles that have diacritical characters in them. Cover Stream 1.2 only supports Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

Via [Macworld]