{"id":40790,"date":"2023-10-13T18:03:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T22:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40790"},"modified":"2023-10-13T18:03:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T22:03:21","slug":"the-history-of-cover-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/13\/the-history-of-cover-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Cover Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050331055401\/http:\/\/thetreehouseandthecave.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/dissatisfaction-sows-innovation.html\">Andrew Coulter Enright<\/a> (in 2005):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050331055401\/http:\/\/thetreehouseandthecave.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/dissatisfaction-sows-innovation.html\"><p>I thought [the iChat AV] implementation would work perfectly if applied to my Visual Browsing problem.<\/p><p>Like paper cards flipping within a bar jukebox, I pictured each cover flipping in and out of the illuminated center position, revealing the subsequent album\/song as the user browsed through the current library (via the linear scroll-bar detailed below). The faster you scrolled, the faster the covers would shuffle in and out of the spotlight.<\/p><p>After you had located the record you wanted, you could simply click on it, and the familiar iTunes Browse View would slide up from the bottom edge of the window (much like the Cover Art Window does currently) allowing you to select a song to play.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/512pixels.net\/2023\/10\/the-history-of-cover-flow\/\">Stephen Hackett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/512pixels.net\/2023\/10\/the-history-of-cover-flow\/\">\n<p>The images in the blog post are <em>shockingly<\/em> close to what the feature would become when Mac developer Jonathan del Strother implemented it in an app called &ldquo;CoverFlow&rdquo; that let users flip through their non-iTunes MP3 collections in a much more visual way than scrolling folders in Finder.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>CoverFlow was purchased by Apple in 2006, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelskies.com\/coverflow\/\">the app&rsquo;s website still reports<\/a>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The final blow came with macOS Mojave in 2018, which swapped out Cover Flow for a new Gallery view[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cover Flow never clicked for me, either.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Coulter Enright (in 2005): I thought [the iChat AV] implementation would work perfectly if applied to my Visual Browsing problem.Like paper cards flipping within a bar jukebox, I pictured each cover flipping in and out of the illuminated center position, revealing the subsequent album\/song as the user browsed through the current library (via the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-10-13T22:03:24Z","apple_news_api_id":"993faa3e-73e3-412e-a5a8-e5208a14d5e0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-10-13T22:03:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AmT-qPnPjQS6lqOUgihTV4A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2477,77,558,458,295,2478,31,1916,224,30,926,212,1609,103],"class_list":["post-40790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-cover-flow","tag-design","tag-facetime","tag-finder","tag-history","tag-ichat","tag-ios","tag-ios-1","tag-itunes","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-4-tiger","tag-leopard","tag-macos-10-14","tag-safari"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40791,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40790\/revisions\/40791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}