Gizmodo: album art

Zune 2 Software Mixing Up Album Art?

Jason Chen — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:17:53 EST

If your new Zune software has been mixing up your album art, here's how to fix it. [Zunerama]

Digital Jewel Box Returns Portable CD Album Art to Digital Music

Charlie White — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:53:25 EDT

Do you miss holding that CD jewel box in your hands, kicking back and listening to music while you peruse the album art and liner notes? Here's a concept by David Friedman for a digital jewel box, sitting on its charging stand next to your computer and connected to your Wi-Fi network. It synchronizes with iTunes, and then when you're listening to your tunes you can take the little display with you and read the album notes and art it's downloaded.

It doubles as an infrared remote, letting you control the song, and if you change albums, it senses that, showing you the next album's liner notes and track listings as well. When you're not using it as a digital jewel box, it doubles as a digital picture frame.

This clever design is still in the concept stage, but it's an innovative idea that restores an aspect of listening to CDs that's missing with digital music. Maybe it'll even bring back extensive liner notes like the good ol' days. Somebody build this—it could be a huge hit. Brilliant. – Charlie White

Idea: The Digital Jewel Box [Ironic Sans] (Thanks, David!)

PLEIO MP3 Player Shows Album Art Like a CD

Jason Chen — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:00:20 EST

The only thing special about this 128MB is the fact that it displays album art in a circle on the front. In Korea, you can purchase virtual albums with the music and art on board. This way, you're fooling yourself into thinking you're viewing the front of the CD as it's spinning away in your player.

Other than this "digital album" art oddity, there's not much of note. We'd much rather buy the actual CD and rip it onto our standard players. – Jason Chen

Self-playable digital music albums [PDALive via Slashgear]

I-Deck: Album Art Has Returned!

Travis Hudson — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:13:59 EDT

Ever since I saw my parents' Rolling Stones Some Girls vinyl album back when I was a wee lad, I have been in love with album art. With the MP3 generation taking over, this artform was slowly becoming lost in a digital sea. Luckily, English designer Michael Kennedy shares the same passion and invented the I-Deck, a retro touchscreen music player. In addition to using the touchscreen to display album art, it also functions as a larger, more interactive iPod click wheel. Hell of an idea, Michael. – Travis Hudson

The I-Deck - Album Art Lives On [The Cool Hunter]